Under-occupancy Penalty Debate
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Greg Mulholland
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Under-occupancy Penalty
Greg Mulholland Excerpts(8 years, 4 months ago)
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Justin Tomlinson
I thank my hon. Friend. Not only is £870 million proving to be the right amount of money for local authorities, but awareness continues to increase year on year.
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West) (LD)
It is simply astonishing that the Government are still not listening and not facing up to the reality of the flaws in this policy, in the same way as they blocked the Affordable Homes Bill, the private Member’s Bill in the name of the former MP for St Ives. Instead of wasting yet more public money on a court case, can they not dust off that Bill and make the changes that clearly need to be made to this policy?
Justin Tomlinson
We are determined to protect the most vulnerable in society. As we have shown, these people were getting the funding that they should have got and were entitled to.