I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way, although I am conscious that Front Benchers have absorbed quite a lot of our time. Does she accept that although local authorities were asked to set out the number of houses that they genuinely believed were needed and sustainable, a pencil was put through those figures for the regional spatial strategy and the numbers were doubled or tripled arbitrarily, which shows what is fundamentally wrong with the RSS?
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Caroline Spelman
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 1 June 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords].
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