Council Housing

Lord Foster of Bath Excerpts

Tuesday 16th October 2012 Ministerial Corrections

[Mr Foster]

What I will do is tell the hon. Gentleman that during the last three years of the Labour Government, the number of social houses fell by 421,000. I hope that he is delighted that the number of completions of social houses in his constituency has gone up significantly in the last 12 months, and that he will welcome the additional funds we are making available—funding that his local authority failed to join in with when the Homes and Communities Agency offered it.

[Official Report, 17 September 2012, Vol. 550, c. 633-34.]

Letter of correction from Don Foster:

An error has been identified in the answer given on 17 September 2012 to the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn).

The correct answer should have been:

[Mr Foster]

What I will do is tell the hon. Gentleman that during the last 13 years of the Labour Government, the number of social houses fell by 421,000. I hope that he is delighted that the number of completions of social houses in his constituency has gone up significantly in the last 12 months, and that he will welcome the additional funds we are making available—funding that his local authority failed to join in with when the Homes and Communities Agency offered it.