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Estimates day on Thursday, 7 December 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Phyllis Starkey. The answering member was Yvette Cooper.

Affordable Housing

Winter supplementary estimates 2006-07. First estimates day (part one). Motion that, for the year ending with 31st March 2007, for expenditure by the Department for Communities and Local Government— (1) further resources, not exceeding £1,351,500,000, be authorised for use as set out in House of Commons Paper No. 2, (2) a further sum, not exceeding £1,357,195,000, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund, to meet the costs as so set out, and (3) limits as so set out be set on appropriations in aid. Question deferred. Resolved.

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454 c464-511 
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2006-07
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Department for Communities and Local Government
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Supply estimates
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Proceeding contributions
Brian Iddon | 454 c497 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman admit that this Government have done far than the Conservative Government to...
Greg Hands | 454 c486 (Link to this contribution) That expenditure is certainly welcome but, unfortunately, it is simply not making enough impact. The...
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Greg Hands | 454 c490 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not do so again. I have been extremely generous and several Members are waiting to speak...
Lord Wills | 454 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall endeavour to follow the guidance on brevity, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I should apologise in a...
John Pugh | 454 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) It is of course very unusual for Members of this House to talk and not to know exactly what they are...
Anne Main | 454 c492 (Link to this contribution) It is not just a question of supply. In areas such as mine the average house price is £300,000 and i...
Richard Burden | 454 c493-6 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I warmly welcome the Select Committee’s report and congratulate my hon. Fri...
John Pugh | 454 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree. My argument is that the fundamental problem is the lack of supply, as my hon. Fri...
Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c496 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the Select Committee report. As my hon. Friend the Member for Hazel Grove (Andrew St...
Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c497 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite correct: such money as has been spent has been focused primarily on impr...
Lord Khan of Tooting | 454 c488 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman saying that the reason for the high prices is the greed of the developer resul...
Greg Hands | 454 c488 (Link to this contribution) Unless we make the private sector housing extremely expensive at a riverside site such as that, it w...
Emily Thornberry | 454 c487 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, I would be interested to hear his ideas as to how people on low ...
Greg Hands | 454 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady misunderstands my point. I am referring to people who are not currently in social hous...
Greg Hands | 454 c489 (Link to this contribution) That will be a matter for the Conservative party’s ongoing policy review and we will look at it very...
Kelvin Hopkins | 454 c488 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is talking about the quality and size of housing. Was it not the Conservative Gov...
Greg Hands | 454 c488 (Link to this contribution) We have had these exchanges for about seven or eight years. The hon. Gentleman approved the Imperial...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c488 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being very generous with his time. I do not agree that the poor should not be ...
Greg Hands | 454 c489 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that intervention repeating comments in the parliamentary Labour party brief. It is our vi...
Lord Khan of Tooting | 454 c489 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talked about more imaginative use of land. Is he therefore surprised that some of...
Karen Buck | 454 c483-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has seen a very deleterious change in housing provision and policy in his borough sin...
Greg Hands | 454 c485 (Link to this contribution) I am a member of the Select Committee that produced the report, although I was not a member of the C...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c485 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman is off to Chelsea, so one hears, and that Wingate road and simi...
Lord Wills | 454 c487 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is saying that there is not enough social housing; presumably his party would spe...
Greg Hands | 454 c486 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly helpful to have more social housing completions in London, but the Government do not...
Greg Hands | 454 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am talking about a general desirability that there should be more social housing and more low cost...
Lord Khan of Tooting | 454 c486 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman not being a bit disingenuous? His hon. Friend the hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr. ...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c486 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not unwittingly mislead the House through a rather selective use...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c507 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I shall say more in a moment about the need for more properly affordable so...
Lord Gove | 454 c507 (Link to this contribution) It is an intoxicating pleasure for me to get a cheer from the Labour Benches when I rise; I hope tha...
Mike Penning | 454 c507 (Link to this contribution) I oppose the house building that the Government propose in Hemel Hempstead on the site of the hospit...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c507 (Link to this contribution) I interpret that to mean that the hon. Gentleman does indeed think that we should probably be buildi...
Lord Khan of Tooting | 454 c508 (Link to this contribution) Speaking of nimbyism, Wandsworth council is discharging its responsibility for providing affordable ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c508 (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on the individual site that the hon. Gentleman mentions. It is true, however, that ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 454 c508 (Link to this contribution) I am glad about my hon. Friend’s announcement about the sustainable building code and yesterday’s an...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c508 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to meet my hon. Friends and I am sorry to hear about their difficulties. We expect ...
Speaker | 454 c508 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have previously appealed for brief interventions. Long interventions rob time from the seco...
Lord Gove | 454 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman’s words accurately describe the Government’s policy, becau...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c504 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman did a little more research, he would discover that I was referring specificall...
Lord Gove | 454 c504 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is eager to speak. How can I resist?
Andrew Love | 454 c506 (Link to this contribution) One of the issues raised in the report is the priority given to finance for affordable housing compa...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c505 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the extremely important Shelter report, which shows the...
Clive Efford | 454 c505 (Link to this contribution) I commend to my hon. Friend the report published this week by Shelter, ““Against the Odds””, which h...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c505 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey) and her Sel...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c506 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has said that social housing needs to be a priority in the comprehensive spending rev...
Lord Gove | 454 c502 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is a former Minister for Housing and Planning, and I pay respect to the tho...
Lord Gove | 454 c502 (Link to this contribution) I must try to make progress, given the time constraints that we face. As well as discussing social ...
Lord Khan of Tooting | 454 c500 (Link to this contribution) On that point, will the hon. Gentleman explain why, in the past Session, he signed early-day motion ...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) As part of the hon. Gentleman’s review of housing policy, will he reflect on the legacy that the Con...
Lord Gove | 454 c501 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman once again shows his attachment to the parliamentary Labour party brief—he would ...
Andrew Pelling | 454 c503 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend note the fact that the Mayor of London does not set 50 per cent. targets across ...
Lord Gove | 454 c503 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. One of our key problems is the national criteria, which do ...
David Howarth | 454 c498 (Link to this contribution) There is also the example of Cambridge city council. Under my leadership in the early part of the de...
Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way, as we have already had exchanges on the subject. I disagree with the argument ...
Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c497 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the hon. Lady was in her place earlier in the debate, but we had a number of e...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 454 c497 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman accept that the problem of a lack of affordable housing is not necessarily a...
Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) I accept your strictures, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and in view of the number of interventions that I have...
Lord Gove | 454 c500 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by thanking the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Paul Holmes) for his speech? When the righ...
Speaker | 454 c499 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that agreement has been achieved to divide our time between the various su...
Lord Stunell | 454 c469-70 (Link to this contribution) Liberal Democrat Members welcome the rise in public and political awareness of the housing issue, wh...
Phyllis Starkey | 454 c465 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, but I am speaking as the Chair of the Select Committ...
Phyllis Starkey | 454 c465-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The Committee made recommendations on those matters, which I shall come to later. As I said...
David Leslie Taylor | 454 c467 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to the priority of ensuring that empty housing is reused. Is not the greater u...
Phyllis Starkey | 454 c467 (Link to this contribution) I do not recall the Committee addressing that specific issue, but it is dealt with in the points tha...
Adrian Bailey | 454 c467 (Link to this contribution) In the context of the debate on new housing and climate change, did the Committee examine, or make a...
Phyllis Starkey | 454 c468 (Link to this contribution) Not specifically, but the Committee welcomed the fact that building regulations were being improved,...
Martin Linton | 454 c468 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that it would be beneficial if section 106 agreements gave an exact de...
Phyllis Starkey | 454 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that case, and there is clearly a concern—particularly in London, where land values ar...
Emily Thornberry | 454 c470 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman therefore recommend that Islington council set an overall target of 50 per c...
Lord Stunell | 454 c470 (Link to this contribution) That sounds very much like our exchange in Westminster Hall a week or two ago. I shall come on to th...
David Howarth | 454 c470 (Link to this contribution) Cambridge city council set a 50 per cent. affordability target, but it was not backed by the inspect...
Lord Stunell | 454 c471 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for raising that serious matter. Many local authorities would like to go furt...
Lord Gove | 454 c470 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been admirably clear about the increased housing supply that he would like, b...
Lord Stunell | 454 c470 (Link to this contribution) That brings us to the crux of the issue raised by the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West. How...
Philip Dunne | 454 c471 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving the example of South Shropshire district council, whi...
Speaker | 454 c471 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am reluctant to intervene on the hon. Gentleman, but he appears to be gently embarking on a...
Lord Stunell | 454 c471 (Link to this contribution) May I finish my sentence? That is what residents want, too. In surveys across the country, the major...
Lord Stunell | 454 c471 (Link to this contribution) I was warned in a dream that the hon. Gentleman had some information. Having visited south Shropshir...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c471 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from social housing, may I point out that Members with an interes...
Lord Stunell | 454 c472 (Link to this contribution) There is clearly a separate but significant problem in London, some aspects of which have already em...
Greg Hands | 454 c473 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves off the subject, will he tell us about Liberal Democrat policy on th...
Lord Stunell | 454 c473 (Link to this contribution) I am being encouraged to say no, but I do not need any prompting. The money raised from the right to...
Andrew Love | 454 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) As the Select Committee report states, the Government’s objective is to increase the level of supply...
Lord Gove | 454 c472 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell us where Britain stands in the European league table for the proportion...
Lord Stunell | 454 c472 (Link to this contribution) Plenty of British citizens are going all over Europe to buy up second homes, such as deserted farmho...
Kelvin Hopkins | 454 c472 (Link to this contribution) On the point made by the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove), if Britain has fewer empty hom...
Lord Stunell | 454 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has probably answered the intervention by the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Micha...
Lord Stunell | 454 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his inquiry. We have some answers to those questions. If one puts tog...
Speaker | 454 c475 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next hon. Member, I remind the House—Front Benchers, Back Benchers and thos...
Lord Stunell | 454 c474 (Link to this contribution) My point is that in attempting to solve one problem we must be careful that we do not create another...
Lord Gove | 454 c474 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way for the third time—he has been very generous. He ...
Lord Stunell | 454 c479 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that in many rural areas outside the green belt, local communities wou...
Philip Dunne | 454 c479 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree. I was about to cite the example of South Shropshire, which the hon. Gentleman used ear...
Andrew Smith | 454 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. Moreover, it sends out entirely the wrong signal. These are hard-working families payin...
Philip Dunne | 454 c478 (Link to this contribution) I take on board your earlier comments about trying to be brief, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I represent a r...
David Drew | 454 c476 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend represents an urban area, but it is just as much of a problem in semi-rural are...
Karen Buck | 454 c482 (Link to this contribution) I have indeed read the book, which provides an excellent analysis and should be required reading. Al...
Lord Khan of Tooting | 454 c482 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend read ““The New East End””, published earlier this year? While it confirms that th...
Karen Buck | 454 c483 (Link to this contribution) If the council has met the requirements of the decent homes initiative, that is entirely due to the ...
Greg Hands | 454 c483 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady may know, earlier this week the Chairman of the Select Committee and I visited her ...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c483 (Link to this contribution) Is not the Conservative party’s attitude to the decent homes programme summed up rather more clearly...
Roger Williams | 454 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) I note the points that the hon. Gentleman is raising, and I am sure that the plans are improvable. D...
Anthony Steen | 454 c480 (Link to this contribution) The problem in Shropshire that my hon. Friend has mentioned is mirrored in south Devon, where the Li...
Philip Dunne | 454 c480 (Link to this contribution) I accept that land values play an important part in determining the overall cost of housing, but I d...
Karen Buck | 454 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey), the Chair of t...
John Bercow | 454 c465 (Link to this contribution) Given that over the past five years house prices have risen sharply and that average earnings are ab...
Philip Dunne | 454 c471 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Smith | 454 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate and congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. ...
Greg Hands | 454 c486 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He and I had numerous such conversations over many...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear what my hon. Friend says. Several hon. Members have mentioned the Shelter rep...
Lord Gove | 454 c503 (Link to this contribution) Invited to choose between the Mayor of London and Conservative-run Hammersmith and Fulham council, I...
Phyllis Starkey | 454 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) Access to housing, especially affordable housing, is a key issue for all our constituents and it is ...
Emily Thornberry | 454 c509 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in condemning the Liberal Democrat council in Islington for refusing onc...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c509 (Link to this contribution) We expect local authorities to start responding to the new planning policy statement on housing. The...
Anthony Steen | 454 c509 (Link to this contribution) I need some clarification to help me understand something. The Minister talks about affordable homes...
Mark Lazarowicz | 454 c509 (Link to this contribution) I should be grateful if my hon. Friend commented on the implications for Scotland as well as England...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c509 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that we need to work on carbon emissions from existing homes as well as new ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c509-11 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman examines the new planning guidance that was published last week. I...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 454 c465 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a powerful argument about housing targets. However, she will be aware that on th...
Philip Dunne | 454 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention, which illustrates well one of the unintended ...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c502 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, whose attitude is always refreshing, seems to be in favour of meeting housing ne...
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