Clause 67 — Payments to Secretary of State

Part of Housing and Planning Bill — [2nd Allocated Day] – in the House of Commons at 1:00 pm on 12 January 2016.

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Photo of Clive Betts Clive Betts Chair, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Chair, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee 1:00, 12 January 2016

We should kill the myth of subsidised council housing. Under the rules which this Government changed following the proposals from the previous Government, housing revenue accounts are self-funding. There is no subsidy. The only subsidies that I can see are right to buy discounts and starter home discounts that the Government are proposing.