Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Grant Shapps and David Morris

Monday 5th September 2011 Commons Chamber

[David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale) (Con)]

T5. Under the coalition Government, house building statistics in England are 22% higher than those during the comparative period under the last Government. Does my right hon. Friend agree that we must never again see circumstances in which council tax bills double yet results are so poor?

[The Minister for Housing and Local Government (Grant Shapps)]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is important to allow communities to grow and allow local people to have a stake in that growth, which is why we will ensure—both through the new homes bonus and through reformed business rates—that an ambitious local authority can improve the lot of people who live in their area, who, for the first time, will have a stake in the future.