Debates between Monica Harding and Matthew Pennycook during the 2024 Parliament

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Debate between Monica Harding and Matthew Pennycook
Monday 2nd September 2024

(1 month, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matthew Pennycook Portrait Matthew Pennycook
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The Government have started to review the increased right to buy discounts introduced in 2012, as we promised to do in our manifesto. We will lay secondary legislation in the autumn and consult on wider reforms. We recognise the importance of right to buy as a route to home ownership for tenants, but we must, as my hon. Friend makes clear, protect our existing stock and boost the supply of new social rented homes.

Monica Harding Portrait Monica Harding (Esher and Walton) (LD)
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Managing the need to build new homes and to protect our valuable green spaces will always be a tricky balancing act. Will the Government put in the national planning policy framework anything that will protect the concept of the green belt in areas such as Esher and Walton, and will the Secretary of State meet me to discuss it?