Housing Support Grant (Scotland)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 9:35 pm on 31 January 1984.

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Photo of Sir Nicholas Fairbairn Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , Perth and Kinross 9:35, 31 January 1984

Yes. How many people live in Easterhouse? Fifty thousand. How many people live in Crieff? Five thousand.

Those who live in those vast housing schemes would infinately rather live in their own houses. If the Secretary of State has done one thing that is right, it is to say that we shall make an end of that serfdom. Those who live in local authority houses do so only because they have no alternative. They would rather live in their own houses, and that is why in Perth and Kinross we do not build council houses. We build sheltered houses for those in need——