Decent Homes

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

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Photo of Clive Betts Clive Betts Labour, Sheffield, Attercliffe 3:50, 3 March 2005

It was a nice ploy of the hon. Gentleman to try to avoid my intervention, because I want to raise precisely the point that I asked him about at the beginning of his speech. He talks of a decent communities standard, but I am unsure about whether that is an extra spending commitment to spend more on the environment around houses or whether he is saying that the Conservatives will spend more on the environment around the houses, but less on the houses themselves. Is he proposing a total spending reduction? He referred to money from the private sector coming from somewhere for something. Would he be a little more precise? Is such money going to replace lots of public funding, and if so, how? I do not really see it myself.