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"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."
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"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
"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."
"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."
"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."
"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
"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."
"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
"I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are."
"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
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