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I particularly welcome Dr Sam Jones, who will be our new clerk team leader. She has come to us from the Northern Ireland Office and will sit in on today's meeting to get an idea of what she has let herself in for.
Where houses are lying empty and in areas where people do not want to live, it will be tenants who will decide on what gets demolished and what new homes will be built.
In registering my interest, I thank the Parliamentary Bureau for picking this vexed question for debate today. Hoping that his head is not getting too big this afternoon, I too welcome the new Deputy Minister for Sport and Culture to his role.
That is a positive thing; civil servants should get out and see the world.Where a local authority has transferred its stock, it should get development funding, subject to having the capacity and having robust housing strategies.