All 2 Debates between Liz Twist and Kit Malthouse

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Debate between Liz Twist and Kit Malthouse
Thursday 14th July 2022

(2 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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That was a long question and I am afraid I only agree with the last sentence: we do want opportunity to be spread to every single individual. I find the hon. Gentleman a little churlish, given that in his part of the world £20 million from the levelling-up funding is supporting the Tileyard North development in Wakefield, we have put £24.9 million into the Wakefield town deal and the Mayor of West Yorkshire will get £1.4 billion for transport improvements in the coming cycle. These are all areas of Government expenditure that will improve the area in which he lives. If he wants to see social mobility writ large, I suggest he looks at the current candidates for the Tory leadership.

Liz Twist Portrait Liz Twist (Blaydon) (Lab)
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9. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure value for money in public spending.

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Debate between Liz Twist and Kit Malthouse
Monday 28th January 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Liz Twist Portrait Liz Twist (Blaydon) (Lab)
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9. What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of new homes for social rent since 2010.

Kit Malthouse Portrait The Minister for Housing (Kit Malthouse)
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We constantly review the construction levels of all types of new homes.

Liz Twist Portrait Liz Twist
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The Government’s pledge to replace homes sold under the council right to buy scheme has been a failure, with only one home being built for every four sold. Why should anyone believe that things will be different when it is extended to housing association tenants? Is it not time to suspend right to buy?

Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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There are plenty of signs that the Labour party is detaching itself from its historic supporter base, but one of the saddest is its inability to grasp the aspiration of working families to own their own home. The concerted attack on one of the most popular policies of the past 30 years—the right to buy—is a very sad spectacle. I am perfectly willing to acknowledge that the one-for-one replacement policy has not been sufficient to provide the number of social homes the country needs, and we are reviewing that policy at the same time as taking the cap off the housing revenue account and allowing councils, which frankly were induced out of council house building by the Labour Government, to get on and build the new generation of social homes.