Can the Minister explain something? I think most of us would sympathise with trying to find the best way to help people into owner-occupation, particularly given the pressure of house prices. We could argue whether it should be equity loans, starter home discounts of 20% or anything else, but why this sudden fixation with mobility for people who are no longer first-time buyers but second-time buyers and maybe, subsequently, third-time buyers to be free of any discount so that they can enter the market without having had to save, as my noble friend said, in the way that everybody else has? Why do the Government consider it to be part of their responsibility to help people become second-time buyers?
Housing and Planning Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Hollis of Heigham
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 3 March 2016.
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and
Debate on bills on Housing and Planning Bill.
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