Oral QuestionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

“What progress has been made on the Voluntary Right to Buy pilot in the Midlands.”

Tabled: 4 December 2018Answered: 10 December 2018

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Answer from Hansard

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Darren Jones)

This Labour Government are focused on delivering for every part of the country. Over the past few weeks, we have signed a £50 million defence growth deal with the Welsh Government and announced plans to build seven new Welsh railway stations through £14 billion of investment. We have halved tariffs on Scottish whisky following the Prime Minister’s successful visit to China. We have progressed our child poverty strategy by voting for legislation to remove the two-child cap, which will benefit over 17,000 children in Northern Ireland alone. In my role as Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, I regularly convene interministerial standing committees with representatives from the devolved Governments, and we have most recently discussed election security and preparedness for the May elections.