Decent Homes

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 3:50 pm on 3 March 2005.

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Photo of Ms Oona King Ms Oona King PPS (Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State), Department of Trade and Industry 3:50, 3 March 2005

The point that I was trying to make, but failed to make clearly, is that the Government prefer to put money through RSLs rather than local authorities because, under the current rules—there have been arguments that the rules should be changed—more units are obtained. The criticism that the Committee made was that the Government are pushing things in a certain direction. I urge the Government to push things more quickly in that direction, because otherwise yet another generation of children in Tower Hamlets will grow up in slums.