The Labour Party is now trying to divert attention away from Its Housing Crisis by blaming the building societies for the level of interest rates.

Will the Minister give information about Government policy, which is stopping the city of Bradford from tackling Its Housing Crisis?

In my constituency, more than 900 families are in bed-and-breakfast accommodation, and mine is a constituency that has been praised by the Minister of State and his chief acolyte for the advances it has made in coping with Its Housing Crisis.

I look forward to working with Halton borough council in the years to come, so that it can begin to deal with Its Housing Crisis in partnership with the Government.

Three Rivers district council is desperately keen to meet the decent homes standard that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister gave it and to build more affordable housing with housing associations to address Its Affordable Housing Crisis and to house some of its key public sector workers.

I ask the Minister to have a look at it, because it contained many ideas that, if put into practice, could move us towards the 250,000 homes a year that the country needs in order to solve Its Housing Crisis.

Indeed, Scotland is facing Its Biggest Housing Crisis since the second world war with nearly 180,000 people in Scotland on social housing waiting lists, including 23,000 in Edinburgh alone.

Scotland is facing Its Biggest Housing Crisis since the second world war, with nearly 180,000 people in Scotland on social housing waiting lists.