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Oral Answers to Questions

Nick Raynsford Excerpts
Thursday 21st October 2010

(14 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Pickles Portrait Mr Pickles
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If we are organising trips around the country, the least I can do is come and see my hon. Friend in Colchester.

Nick Raynsford Portrait Mr Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich) (Lab)
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Will the Secretary of State tell the House whether he believes that house prices will rise or fall over the next six months? If they fall, would he see that as a good thing or a bad thing?

Grant Shapps Portrait Grant Shapps
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House prices will fluctuate. [Interruption.] It is obvious. We do not want to see house prices doubling in a period of just 10 years as happened under the last Labour Government, locking generations out of being able to get a foot on the housing ladder. This Government want to help people on to the housing ladder, not exclude them.