The local authority home loan service should be developed to compete with building societies and banks.
That allocation has been cut substantially, and local councils are having to close down their home loan schemes and stop improvement programmes and new building.
A few years ago we could have told them to go to the home loan section and obtain a home loan.
We have managed to get information concerning 283 of them—more than three-quarters of them—of which 242 had home loan schemes.
Signing a home loan agreement is often the most important and the biggest financial obligation a consumer takes on in his working life.
We are committed to do many things in housing—a reduction in home loan interest rates and building houses better and faster.
The home loan scheme was related to reorganisation.
Is it right that a nurse in the south-east can get a home loan, but that a nurse or hospital cleaner in the north-west cannot?