That this House notes that the honourable Member for Hammersmith has never claimed that expenditure on capital receipts was outside the public sector borrowing requirement; notes that the recorded text of his answer at the Roof conference confirms that he said that capital receipts do have an impact on public sector borrowing requirement; and suggests that the honourable Member for Harrow West gets his facts right before tabling Early Day Motions, such as No. 630 of the Session, not least because the Minister for Housing is also recorded as saying the Government was keeping under review the possibility of releasing capital receipts.

That this House notes that the honourable Member for Hammersmith has never claimed that expenditure on capital receipts was outside the public sector borrowing requirement; notes that the recorded text of his answer at the Roof conference confirms that he said that capital receipts do have an impact on public...

That this House congratulates the honourable Member for Hammersmith on finally withdrawing his ludicrous and often repeated claim that a Labour Government would increase housing expenditure by ??8 billion without increasing public expenditure; notes his repeated insistence that the Leader of the Labour Party and the Shadow Chancellor agree with him; demands that the Shadow Chancellor, the Right honourable Member for Monklands East, make a statement to the House explaining how this latest example of double dealing on the economy and taxation came about, and that he makes it clear who is correct; and calls on the Labour Party to admit that their half-baked housing plans would bring the house building programme to a halt.

That this House congratulates the honourable Member for Hammersmith on finally withdrawing his ludicrous and often repeated claim that a Labour Government would increase housing expenditure by ??8 billion without increasing public expenditure; notes his repeated insistence that the Leader of the Labour Party and the Shadow Chancellor agree with...