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Prescott attacks PM's speech
00:00 04 May 1995
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The Prime Minister's words bear no comparison with the reality,
said John Prescott, Labour deputy leader.
Prescott said towns and cities are suffering the blight of Tory mismanagement, with almost 2 million homes in Britain classed as officially unfit for human habitation, and 3.8 million in need of urgent repairs.
The deputy leader said that the money spent renovating older and substandard council estates was down from œ7 billion in 1979/80 to œ2.5 billion in 1995/96.
An SRB assessment by the University of Birmingham, which was quoted by Prescott, calculated that cumulatively over œ6 billion will be removed from public sector regeneration programmes between 1993/94 and 1997/98, the result of a 21% reduction in the DoE's spend.
Prescott said towns and cities are suffering the blight of Tory mismanagement, with almost 2 million homes in Britain classed as officially unfit for human habitation, and 3.8 million in need of urgent repairs.
The deputy leader said that the money spent renovating older and substandard council estates was down from œ7 billion in 1979/80 to œ2.5 billion in 1995/96.
An SRB assessment by the University of Birmingham, which was quoted by Prescott, calculated that cumulatively over œ6 billion will be removed from public sector regeneration programmes between 1993/94 and 1997/98, the result of a 21% reduction in the DoE's spend.
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