MPs Question Right To Buy Data

Senior MPs have challenged the housing ministers over the data supporting the contentious Right to Buy policy. During an exchange at the Commons communities and local government committee, housing minister Brandon Lewis was forced to defend his use of data that he claimed showed the housing sector was meeting demands to replace public sector homes being sold to occupiers. The minister claimed during questioning that local authorities and housing associations had been meeting their obligation to build a house for every property sold under Right to Buy, a policy known as One for One. Lewis said: “At the moment the figures show they are on target. In London, they are ahead of that – they are at two for one. So that’s working.” Read more on 24dash.