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Debate between Kit Malthouse and Trudy Harrison
Monday 4th March 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kit Malthouse Portrait The Minister for Housing (Kit Malthouse)
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Permitted development rights have produced 46,000 homes over the past three years. Those homes have to come from somewhere. They are not, as the hon. Lady said, slums. All permitted developments have to comply with building regulations. As she knows, we are currently reviewing building regulations to see what can be required. As part of the work on the social housing Green Paper, we may well also look at the decent home standards that could, in time, apply to the private rented sector.

Trudy Harrison Portrait Trudy Harrison (Copeland) (Con)
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T5. When the last bank in town moves out, as is happening in Millom in my constituency, what is being done to ensure that remote and rural communities do not suffer economic and social hardship?