Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What steps he is taking to increase employment in Essex.”
Tabled: 29 August 2023Answered: 4 September 2023
Asked by
Priti Patel
Conservative — Witham
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for the Armed Forces (Al Carns)
The scale of the problem is truly gigantic. We have re-bought 36,000 homes. Nine out of every 10 homes will be refurbished and 14,000 homes might be completely rebuilt. We have already started on the first 1,000 that need modernising, and once that is done we will move on to the next.