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Mike Freer Excerpts
Monday 28th February 2011

(13 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Pickles Portrait Mr Pickles
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The hon. Gentleman has to understand that we are in this position because of the way in which the Labour party left our national finances. The Labour party is apparently happy for us to continue to pay vast sums of money to foreign bankers by way of interest, but we have simply arrived at the point where the country is boracic, and that is a direct consequence of Opposition ladies and gentlemen’s neglect of the economy.

Mike Freer Portrait Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green) (Con)
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T7. In my constituency I have Brent Cross Cricklewood, the largest regeneration scheme outside of the Olympic park. Can the Minister confirm that, when council tenants or arm’s length management organisation tenants move into regeneration projects, their tenancies will continue unbroken?

Grant Shapps Portrait Grant Shapps
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Yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right: there is no chance of, or way in which, a social tenancy can be broken or changed for anybody already in council or housing association homes.