Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Stephen Hepburn and Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
Some people may think that it beggars belief that a former Housing Minister can say that, given that in the 13 years for which his party was in office, with a rather different economic inheritance, the number of social and affordable homes fell by 420,000. This will be probably the first Government in my lifetime to leave more affordable homes in stock at the end of a five-year Parliament than there were before it.
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) (Lab)
13. What recent representations he has received on reform of council tax benefit; and if he will make a statement.