Lisa Nandy: Government record on house building is ‘appalling’

In levelling up, housing and communities department questions today shadow secretary of state Lisa Nandy called the government’s record on house building “appalling”.

She said: “It really does take some brass neck to present this as anything other than an appalling record. And I have here an analysis which shows that all of this chaos will cost the economy £44 billion”.

Housing minister Rachel Maclean replied: “I am proud of the government’s record bringing forward levelling up across the whole country – house building backed by billions of pounds of public funding and taxpayers money”.