7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tackling Homelessness

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:34 pm on 23 October 2019.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 6:34, 23 October 2019

You say you've never cut social housing, and I take it you're referring to this Government, because your own Government statistics will prove that they were reduced massively in the first three Assembly terms and flatlined thereafter. The social housing grant was still building social houses through registered social landlords, and by the time the Conservative Government left power in 1997 in London, the rate of replacement for those sold were almost on a par—it crashed after 1997 and crashed even further after 1999. Look at the figures.