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Housing and Planning Bill

Proceeding contribution from Earl of Lytton (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 25 April 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills on Housing and Planning Bill.

My Lords, I am not sure that I know the answer to that. The point that I was trying to get at in the process of this amendment was the question of who profited from the 500 houses. The short answer is that very large gains are made by dint of the market. The noble Lord may wish to take the view that the market should be overridden—a view that I feel certain many would share on his Benches. It does not happen to be my view and we will have to agree to differ on how this is to be dealt with. I entirely respect his view and I can see the social pinch point here, but I am trying to look at this as an economic model rather than in terms of who gains out of it.

I have gone on long enough about this and it is certainly not my intention to divide the House on it. I therefore beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

771 c967 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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