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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I do not know, off the top of my head. [Interruption.] I am being prompted by one of my hon. Friends but I do not know. People buy up council housing and rent it out at extraordinarily high prices as temporary accommodation. We are expected to foot the bill by way of housing benefit. That is how people get caught in a poverty trap and we must do something about it. The only solution in the end is to build more. In Islington, where land prices are so high, the council could take advantage of that and say to developers, ““You can't build here unless half of what you build is for local people. You can make your great big profits on the other half.”” That takes backbone, which my Liberal council does not have, and it ought to.