Housing

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:07 pm on 5 May 2004.

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Photo of Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government) 1:07, 5 May 2004

The Minister is trying to make a good case out of something that is pretty poor. Will he explain why the Select Committee on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister—an all-party Committee—said:

"more and more people cannot afford to buy or rent a home . . . more families than ever are in temporary housing . . . The number of homeless households in temporary accommodation is now the highest ever"?

If that is not a damning indictment of the Government's housing programme, I do not know what is. Will he also explain why the Government are building only half the number of affordable houses today as when we left office in 1997?