Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Wendy Morton and Lord Barwell

Monday 16th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Gavin Barwell]

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 (Aldridge-Brownhills) (Con)]

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?

[Gavin Barwell]

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.

Homelessness

Debate between Wendy Morton and Lord Barwell

Wednesday 14th December 2016 Commons Chamber

[Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills) (Con)]

Will my hon. Friend give way?

[Gavin Barwell]

I give way to my hon. Friend, but then I will come back to the hon. Member for Ashfield.

[Wendy Morton]

Does my hon. Friend agree that on the Friday when both sides of the Chamber came together to support the Homelessness Reduction Bill, the private Member’s Bill introduced by our hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman), it was a really positive day, and a good indication that both sides of the House can come, and are coming, together to tackle this issue?