Low-Cost housing
Debate between Ruth Cadbury and Cheryl Gillan(7 years, 2 months ago)
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Mrs Cheryl Gillan (in the Chair)
Can I check that the hon. Gentleman is not giving way?
Almshouses
Debate between Ruth Cadbury and Cheryl Gillan(7 years, 6 months ago)
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Ruth Cadbury
Perhaps the Minister could explain something relating to the net gain or loss of social rented housing since 2010. In my area, the right-to-buy discount is so high that council houses have been sold through right to buy at a faster rate than new social rented housing, both council and housing association, has been built by our local authority. On his comment about the number of council houses built under the last Labour Government, it is true that council house building was low, but housing association new builds were very high. We also delivered the better homes programme, in which a high proportion of council homes were brought up to the decent homes standard—they had been neglected for many years before that.
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (in the Chair)
Order. I do not want Members to slip into bad habits just because we have a reasonable amount of time.