Housing Needs Expenditure

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 April 1987.

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Photo of Mr Michael Meadowcroft Mr Michael Meadowcroft , Leeds West 12:00, 1 April 1987

Would it not be a splendid idea with the coincidence of this question with National Housing Week to double the limit for prescribed expenditure to 40 per cent. to give a real initiative to housing authorities? Secondly, would it not be important to build on the consensus on the need to involve housing associations, building societies and other financial organisations to put together a committee that again could build on the consensus and enable us to solve the housing problem by using all the financial resources that are available, which are obviously considerable?