Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 2 June 2009.
Ken Purchase
Labour, Wolverhampton North East
2:30,
2 June 2009
I thank the Minister for that reply, but does he not agree with me and many others in this place and elsewhere who say that if the fourth option had been agreed to, the sum would have been spent more efficiently, effectively and quickly, and to the greater benefit of our tenants and certainly taxpayers, who, of course, ultimately own the housing stock?
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