Select Committee on Communities and Local Government Committee Minutes of Evidence


Examination of Witnesses (Questions 260 - 261)

MONDAY 22 JANUARY 2007

MR PETER WALLS, MR JOHN CRAGGS, MR CHRIS LANGSTAFF AND MS CATHERINE PARK

  Q260  Mr Olner: But you think it needs a change?

  Mr Langstaff: Yes, you are right.

  Mr Walls: I think I would get shot if I went home having been down here if I did not say that I think there are far too many sound bites about the surplus in the North and the horrendous problems in the South. If anything, it is paranoia about kids and where are they going to live because they are getting marginalised out of both solutions. They cannot afford to buy; they cannot access rent; and if you look at the numerics of it, what we are doing in the North, certainly in our area, it is nowhere near addressing that. We do need to look at the distribution of population versus the distribution of the allocation and at the moment it does not quite seem to stack up in terms of North and South.

  Mr Olner: It is good to have that on the record.

  Q261  Chair: Would you agree with that, Mr Langstaff?

  Mr Langstaff: The trouble is we can argue against each other on redistribution and I do not want to do that. I think the system needs a radical overhaul and that is where I come from.

  Chair: Thank you very much indeed.





 
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