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Shapps should apologise as new homes fall six per cent - Dromey
2 November 2011
Jack Dromey MP, Labour's Shadow Housing Minister, said in response to housing figures published by the Department for Communities and Local Government today:
"The 6% fall is the latest evidence that the Conservative-led Government’s housing and economic policies are hurting, not working.
"As the CLG’s own figures have today shown, there has been a six per cent fall in new homes in England over the past year and a 26 per cent fall in London. New homes are now down 42 per cent on what Labour achieved in 2007/8.
"In December, Grant Shapps told the Financial Times that he was 'going to beat the last government hands down'. The Minister should apologise to the badly housed, the homeless and the families up and down the country who cannot afford to get a mortgage for failing to deliver on his promise to build more homes.
"We need urgent action now to tackle the housing crisis. The Government should act, therefore, on Labour’s call to repeat the tax on bankers’ bonuses to kick-start an affordable housing programme which would get builders back into work, create apprenticeships for young people and deliver 25,000 new affordable homes."
