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Debate between Matthew Pennycook and Simon Opher
Monday 12th January 2026

(2 days, 3 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Simon Opher Portrait Dr Simon Opher (Stroud) (Lab)
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In Stroud, we have 4,000 council houses; we need at least double that. Will the Minister look again at the constraints that councils are under and see whether the Government can enable them to build more council houses?

Matthew Pennycook Portrait Matthew Pennycook
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We are committed to reinvigorating council house building, which is essential to boost and sustain higher rates of housing supply in the years ahead. We have already taken decisive action to support councils to build at scale once again, including reforming the right to buy and launching the council house building skills and capacity programme, but we will of course keep the matter under review to see what further support we can provide.

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