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Surely the most significant factors will be demand and the ability of banks to lend to prospective buyers. Costs will be higher, but so will the respective selling prices.
I hope that he will join me in urging his party at the UK level to listen to his words, because Liam Kerr is absolutely right, and he can bank that. I am genuinely very grateful for Gillian Martin’s words and I do not disagree with a lot of what she has said today.
We are proposing to look at the housing land supply market and, in particular, the role of land banking, so that we develop an understanding of where and how that is an issue, and we are working closely with local authorities on vacant and derelict land.
That is why I think that it was important that, as recently as last week—I can confirm the date later—there was a meeting between Professor Alice Sullivan and the relevant statistical authorities.
I am afraid that I cannot remember the date off the top of my head. I do not want to avoid the question, but CMAL and others might be better placed to answer the question about when the relationship broke down.
The problems that we are experiencing include our needing firmer dates, including delivery dates. That is so that we can progress the projects as soon as possible, because our not being able to do that has an impact on other projects.