Conservative ministers have built a track record of
failure when it comes to housebuilding over the last five years, according to
Labour’s shadow housing and planning minister John Healey MP. “The number of homes built in the best year
of the last government’s five years was still lower than the worst year of the
previous 13 Labour years… 124,980 homes built in the depths of the recession in
2009, under Labour but five years later in 2014, the best year of the last
Parliament with a much-trumpeted growing economy, only 117 720,” he said. Healey was speaking at in the House of
Commons during CLG departmental questions session. During the
session, he also effectively suggested communities secretary Greg Clark had
offered up his department as a ‘sacrificial lamb’ for agreeing with the
Treasury to 8% cuts each year to his department’s budget ahead of the spending
review later this month. Read more on the Housing Excellence website.
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