Budget Resolutions

Neil Coyle Excerpts
1st reading: House of Commons
Thursday 1st November 2018

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Brokenshire Portrait James Brokenshire
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I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his early intervention. I intend to cover several housing announcements, but he rightly underlines the Government’s commitment to build the homes that our country needs. We want councils, housing associations and the private sector to build, thereby meeting the challenges and problems that the broken housing market has presented. The Government are determined to fix that.

Neil Coyle Portrait Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab)
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If the Secretary of State is serious about house building, where is the funding in the Budget for the Bakerloo line extension, which would provide not only vital transport infrastructure for south-east London, but bring with it house building—private house building as well as 5,000 social housing homes and 2,000 genuinely affordable, London living rents?