In the coming Session we shall use the debates on the Bill to put forward our considered, constructive policies to deal with the National Housing Crisis.

The House should not adjourn until we have debated the National Housing Crisis and the London housing crisis in particular.

In the light of the National Housing Crisis we now face, will the Prime Minister give the House a straightforward answer to my question?

Scotland faces a National Housing Crisis in terms of increased homelessness, which has risen 133 per cent.

Will the Secretary of State please admit to the House that this problem does not just pertain to my part of the world and that we face a National Housing Crisis?

I suggest that better solutions come from Shelter, which is arguably the most knowledgeable organisation dealing with the National Housing Crisis.

The problem is not restricted to one part of our country, but is a National Housing Crisis.

The Bill comes at the right time - in the midst of a National Housing Crisis - but unfortunately it does not provide the right solution.

The price that they are paying for all that is to feed the landowners who own the land, who should be readily giving up that land to help to deal with the National Housing Crisis at the price of its worth to them in its existing use, but of course they do not want to do that.

I say again that we have a National Housing Crisis.