Dear Chancellor
At the December 2019 General Election people up and down the country, many from poorer backgrounds and living in social housing, put their trust in the Conservative Party. Now it is up to us to deliver for them.
We have promised them a new vision to rebalance this country's infrastructure, to ensure the people of this country are restricted only by their hard work and vision, not their post code.
A vital part of our agenda must be ensuring ample, safe and secure housing. A secure home lets people get on with their lives – look after their families and grow their business without having to worry about damp and drafts damaging their children's health or a sudden hike in rent ending their dreams.
Ensuring this means building up our nation's offer of social homes. This has been ignored for too many decades and as Shelter has persuasively campaigned, we can no longer afford to ignore the need for greater availability of affordable social stock. If our policies simply continue to provide only unaffordable housing, then the people there will never forgive us. However, if we are the Party that finally delivers the social and other high quality affordable housing this country needs they will never forget us.
We need the money to build and renovate our available stock, but we also need to reform the planning and laws around land to make it easier to get the social homes built. We believe this year's budget is the chance to signal that we will be serious about making this happen. We look forward to working with you to make it so.
Yours sincerely,
Rt. Hon. David Davis MP
Together with:
Peter Aldous MP
Lee Anderson MP
Bob Blackman MP
Richard Drax MP
Ben Everitt MP
Simon Fell MP
George Freeman MP
Mark Garnier MP
James Gray MP
Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP
Sally-Ann Hart MP
Gordon Henderson MP
Paul Holmes MP
Mark Jenkinson MP
Danny Kruger MP
Mrs Pauline Latham MP
Marco Longhi MP
Jack Lopresti MP
Tim Loughton MP
Jason McCartney MP
Huw Merriman MP
Andrew Rosindell MP
Andrew Selous MP
Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands
Martin Vickers MP
Sir Charles Walker MP
Mr Willliam Wragg MP