Housing White Paper

Steve McCabe Excerpts

Tuesday 7th February 2017 Commons Chamber

[Sajid Javid]

My hon. Friend helps me to highlight, again, the way in which we have tackled the green belt in this White Paper by keeping all its existing protections and demonstrating, for the first time, exactly all the hoops a local authority has to go through to show us categorically that it has looked at all other reasonable options.

[Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)]

Further to the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham South (Lilian Greenwood), surely the Minister has to accept that his plans are going to lead to a reduction in the supply of supported housing in the midlands but an increase in London? That is a problem he could fix; that is a market he is breaking.

[Sajid Javid]

A consultation on supported housing is going on at the moment and the results will be out in due course.