Localism Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:00 pm on 25 January 2011.

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Adrian Penfold: I would make one comment on that. You come back to incentives. Some acknowledgement that incentives, as a tool, can be adjusted would be useful. So, if Andrew’s problem does arise, and there are issues about the amount of housing needed for the country, and we see evidence that housing waiting lists are growing and there is more homelessness and so on, there has to be an ability to adjust and to modify the approach. It seems to me that incentives are a way of doing that, potentially, and there ought to be an acknowledgement and recognition of that through this process.