They are indeed. My hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Sandy Martin) mentioned the example of Persimmon earlier. Many of those companies are no longer housebuilders in the traditional sense. They are employment agents who employ contractors to do things. In my own constituency, some of the complaints about new builds are pretty horrendous, and I think that that experience is shared across the House.
Finance (No. 2) Bill
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Lord Beamish
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