Social Housing: South Cotswolds Debate

Full Debate: Read Full Debate
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Jim Shannon

Main Page: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Department Debates - View all Jim Shannon's debates with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government


Wordsworth House and Garden

Social Housing: South Cotswolds

Jim Shannon Excerpts
Tuesday 21st October 2025

(1 day, 20 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
Share Debate
Read Full debate Read Hansard Text Read Debate Ministerial Extracts
Roz Savage Portrait Dr Savage
- Hansard -
- - Excerpts

That does indeed sound like an excellent idea.

Jim Shannon Portrait Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
- Hansard -
-

I commend the hon. Lady for bringing forward this debate. I spoke to her beforehand to get an idea of what she would be referring to. We had a debate in Westminster Hall this morning on homelessness, and one point that came through very clearly was affordability. House prices can sometimes be over 10 times the average of what people can afford from their earnings. In my constituency—I suspect it is the same in the hon. Lady’s—many young people want to buy for the first time but cannot get a mortgage because the houses are too expensive. Does the hon. Lady agree that to address the needs of those who want to buy a house or access social housing, the Government must build more houses to bring the prices down so that people can actually afford them?

Return to start of debate - Return to top of page