Member

I will be a little more controversial about the first two amendments, which are about collecting data on a local link and on British citizenship. I was rather disappointed, I confess, at Second Reading that we had some pearl clutching from the Liberal Democrat Benches, mentioned by my noble friend Lady Scott, about the number of people in social housing in Greater London who were born overseas. I have to ask the fundamental question, in supporting my noble friend on the Front Bench: in what other country in the world would we nonchalantly accept that people who have not paid taxes, who were born abroad, who are not British citizens, should have very valuable social housing?