Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 June 1991.
Paul Flynn
, Newport West
12:00,
12 June 1991
I draw the Minister's attention to the case of some of my constituents, whose leasehold was sold by one company for £800 and then offered by another for £3,500, three months later. They had no help from the law. Is not it time that leasehold, which has been the scourge of south Wales housing for 150 years, was done away with, because it serves no useful purpose, except to allow speculators to make money out of people's homes?
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