Affordable Homes Bill

Mark Hunter Excerpts

Friday 5th September 2014 Commons Chamber

[Stephen Pound (Ealing North) (Lab)]

We have been educated today, and I pay tribute to the hon. Member for St Ives (Andrew George) for bringing this extraordinarily interesting Bill before the House, but if there is one thing that has run through our discussions for the past three hours—it seems longer—it is not so much a golden thread as a string of tarnished brass: that it is all very well to have a theoretical construct that encourages people to leave their homes, but there has to be somewhere for them to go. It is so flipping obvious to anyone who lives in the real world and who knows the experiences of ordinary human beings who do not consider this a spare ballroom tax—

[Mark Hunter (Cheadle) (LD)]

claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36).

Question put forthwith, That the Question be now put.

The House divided: Ayes 304, Noes 237.