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Wendy Morton Excerpts
Monday 16th January 2017

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Barwell Portrait Gavin Barwell
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Voluntary right to buy provides replacement affordable housing. The hon. Gentleman should be supporting it, because it helps people who could not otherwise own their home to do so and provides new affordable housing.

Wendy Morton Portrait Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills) (Con)
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T8. Earlier this year, the Secretary of State announced an extra £7 billion fund to expand the Government’s affordable housing programme. I welcome this, and it will help my constituents. However, there is also a concern that the need for new homes will outweigh the need to protect our greenfield land, so will the Minister assure my constituents that he remains committed to it?

Lord Barwell Portrait Gavin Barwell
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I absolutely give my hon. Friend that assurance. I congratulate her on championing brownfield land. The new brownfield registers that we are introducing will help to ensure that development is, rightly, focused on brownfield first.