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Rented Housing

I happen to be in an area that considered large-scale voluntary transfer and rightly rejected it. As a result, we now face the punishment—I put it no more weakly than that—of having some £6.8 million a year taken from our rents and put into a central pot. That is a source of aggravation for my constituents. There may well be some simplification in how the sums are managed, but it looks like a punishment to local authorities that have remained in local authority ownership, so Government must quickly resolve the problem.