Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Reed and Tulip Siddiq

Monday 12th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Steve Reed]

If the hon. Gentleman’s party had not scrapped house building targets around the country, we might see more of the kinds of homes that we need in every single part of the country—urban, suburban and rural. As for our targets, the judgment of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, which was set up by the previous Conservative Government, is that this Government will oversee the biggest increase in house building for 40 years. That will put the key to their own home into the hands of people who were denied it under the Conservatives.

[Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Highgate) (Lab)]

4. What steps he is taking to implement the provisions on leasehold reform in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024.