Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:05 pm on 23 November 1982.

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Photo of Mr Michael Heseltine Mr Michael Heseltine Secretary of State for Environment 4:05, 23 November 1982

The hon. Gentleman knows the answer very well. As the Government are responsible for the disposition of the public sector, we were entitled to be elected on a manifesto stating that we would use some of those public resources in the way that we felt would benefit the tenants. It would have been quite wrong to suggest that we could deal with the private assets of individual citizens in the same way. However, if the Labour Party now intends to enable private tenants to acquire the privately owned property of other people, let us have that clearly on the record.