Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 25 November 2010.
Greg Clark
Minister of State (Department for Communities and Local Government) (Decentralisation and Cities) (also in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
10:30,
25 November 2010
The consultation my right hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Local Government has launched has been well received across the sector because it introduces a right, not an obligation, and when we have a homelessness crisis, I think it is right to give registered social landlords more flexibility than they currently have in allocating to homeless tenants.
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