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"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
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"What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation."

"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."

"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."

"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."

"In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that."

"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."

"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."
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