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Debate between Rosie Cooper and Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
Local authorities have about three years in which to spend the money and as I understand it some £730 million of proceeds have been raised under the reinvigorated right-to-buy scheme. That must all be invested in building new homes for affordable rent in the borough. The previous Government did not do that. In fact, their record was pretty appalling: for every 170 houses sold under right to buy between 1997 and 2013, only one new social home was built.
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire) (Lab)
8. What progress his Department has made on resolving the dispute over firefighters pensions.