Karen Buck
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Monday 17th January 2011
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Andrew Stunell
I thank my hon. Friend for the question. As he will see when he studies the Localism Bill, local communities will have a right to build that will allow them to overstep their local planning system to deliver what they need.
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North) (Lab)
In spring 2008, the Homes and Communities Agency gave the flagship Conservative council of Westminster grants to build 500 new homes. Three years later, significantly fewer than 50 such homes have been built. Will the Minister tell me why?
Andrew Stunell
Clearly, those five years were a time when a Labour Secretary of State was standing at this Dispatch Box.