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Affordable Housing

The hon. Gentleman, whose attitude is always refreshing, seems to be in favour of meeting housing need, and he rather casts aspersions on home ownership. He talked about people on waiting lists, overcrowding and people in need, but does he accept that most of those people will need social rented housing? I ask him the same question that I put to the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Andrew Stunell): does he agree with the Mayor of London’s target of 50 per cent. affordable housing, 70 per cent. of which should be affordable social rented housing? Will the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) disassociate himself from Tory councils such as Hammersmith and Fulham, which say exactly the opposite—that wherever there is an opportunity, housing should be for sale, not for rent?