Oral Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
“What steps he is taking to increase the provision of social rented housing.”
Tabled: 21 March 2023Answered: 27 March 2023
Asked by
Simon Lightwood
Labour (Co-op) — Wakefield and Rothwell
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Kirsty McNeill)
The Chancellor’s autumn Budget delivered the biggest settlement in the history of devolution for the Scottish Government—£50 billion. I want to see that cash reach the frontline services that have suffered years of cuts under the SNP. That record settlement is possible only because of the Barnett formula—something opposed not only by the Scottish nationalists, but by the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage), whose Reform circus was sent packing from Hamilton this week.