If it is about getting more for less, the result will be to push up rents, so these so-called affordable homes will not be affordable. That, in turn, will push up the cost of housing benefit, which will undermine many of the other claims the Government are making on reducing the housing benefit bill.
Finance Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Sheila Gilmore
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 2 July 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance Bill.
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2013-14
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