Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — amendment of the law

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 5:37 pm on 24 March 2010.

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Photo of David Heath David Heath Shadow Leader of the House of Commons 5:37, 24 March 2010

I am sure that there are also middle-class, articulate children in those schools who are receiving the same premium. That is the problem. If the premium followed the individual child so that those with needs received the extra money, there would be fairness across the system, but that is not what happens at present. We currently have a crude formula that rewards some parts of the country at the expense of others.

The issue of fairness applies to housing as well. It is simply not fair that some people can never afford to be housed in the area in which they grew up because there is no rented sector left and no affordable houses for them to buy, and they are priced out of the market. There will not be fairness in the system until we have fairness in housing.