Former MP for Norwood
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Has the Minister made any calculation of the extent to which public expenditure would be reduced by not having to place so many families in private accommodation at exorbitant rents, with 100 per cent. housing benefit?
To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 13 March. [18552]
As this is probably the last opportunity I shall have to ask the Prime Minister a question, may I, as one ex-Lambeth councillor to another, wish him a long and happy retirement? It might have been otherwise—because does he realise that when he was running a housing department in Lambeth, under a Labour Government, he started more municipal homes to rent in one year than every single housing...
Former MP for Norwood
Entered the House of Commons on 31 March 1966 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 8 April 1997 — General election
Also represented Lambeth Norwood
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