Land Prices

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Rhagfyr 1973.

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Photo of John Horam John Horam , Gateshead West 12:00, 5 Rhagfyr 1973

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that even the appalling figure of 185 per cent. is an underestimate because of the time lag in the recording of figures and that the true increase is now well over 200 per cent. since the last General Election? Does not this appalling set of figures lie at the root of many of our urban housing problems? Is it not fair to say that we will get nowhere in solving them until we have a radical land policy, which the Minister has totally failed to provide?