Housing

Part of Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 4:15 pm on 5 September 2012.

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Photo of Jack Dromey Jack Dromey Shadow Minister (Housing) 4:15, 5 September 2012

Sadly, when we took office in 1997 we were confronted with a Conservative legacy of disrepair and neglect. We invested £19 billion to bring more than 1.5 million homes up to the decent homes standard, and I have seen in my constituency how that transformed the lives of the people in those homes. Some 75% of all tenants concerned had their homes brought up to the decent homes standard. Did the hon. Gentleman’s Government stick to that progress when they took office? No, they did not.