Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Richard Bacon

Tuesday 6th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Elizabeth Truss)]

As the Chancellor pointed out, we have already put an additional £1.3 billion into schools’ budgets, which means that they are rising in real terms, and it is entirely proper for Education Ministers to appear in front of the Select Committee to discuss those issues.

[Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk) (Con)]

T10. Some people are worried about the end of Help to Buy in five years’ time. Given that it is a subsidy on demand, why not soften the blow with a subsidy on supply through a help to build programme, which would help more ordinary people bring forward their own schemes at prices they can afford?