No, I would not, because, frankly, they have not done it and they would not. That is the dilemma that the Government are in: if you are really to make this work, I am afraid it is inevitable that you have to make it mandatory otherwise it will not happen. The question then is how you do that and how you translate it into more social housing.
Housing and Planning Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Horam
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 10 March 2016.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Housing and Planning Bill.
About this proceeding contribution
Reference
769 c1421Session
2015-16Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamberLibrarians' tools
Timestamp
2016-04-13 16:38:26 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2016-03-10/16031034000125
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2016-03-10/16031034000125
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2016-03-10/16031034000125