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Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. In responding to Amendment 66B, I assure noble Lords

that we are committed to using a portion of receipts from the sale of vacant council housing to fund the delivery of more homes. We have chosen a way that will not require all local authorities to deliver that housing, as we know that in some cases they do not want to be responsible for it. Instead, authorities can choose to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of State to retain part of the payment in order to use it to deliver more homes. This is the same process as currently happens with the sale of properties under right to buy.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
769 c1496 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
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