Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 4 Ebrill 1979.
Mr Robert McCrindle
, Brentwood and Ongar
12:00,
4 Ebrill 1979
Is not one of the reasons why purchasing one's council house is so attractive that the average price of ordinary owner occupier houses has gone up considerably as a result of the Intervention by the Secretary of State in lending by building societies?
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