Supporting the High Street

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at on 21 May 2019.

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Photo of George Howarth George Howarth Labour, Knowsley

Does the Chancellor agree with me that companies such as St Modwen that buy up town centres such as Kirkby in my constituency do nothing with them—in fact, they leave them to rot—and then simply sell them on to a pension fund? Is that the way we want to run the future of our town centres, and has he not got anything more imaginative that can be done about it?