Debate contribution: Communities Papers: Executive Blockage
Debate contribution by Mr Gordon Lyons on .
- MLA
- Mr Gordon Lyons
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 29 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Communities Papers: Executive Blockage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5761468
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The First Minister is blocking the fraud and error parity Bill to keep us in line with the rest of the UK. If that is not agreed, there could be financial penalties. The First Minister is blocking the fraud and error paper that would help us to retain more of the savings that we make by cracking down on fraud and error.
Through the actions that we have taken, we cut our fraud bill by £60 million last year. She is blocking the paper that would ensure that social housebuilding had a ring-fenced budget to allow us to build the number of homes that we promised in the Programme for Government. She is blocking a paper on the allocation of homelessness funding, which I referred to earlier. She is blocking the housing Bill, which would deal with antisocial behaviour in our constituencies. That is a hugely important issue. I am sure that there is not a Member who has not had a constituent come to them to tell of problems that they have had as a result of antisocial behaviour. Housing associations and the Housing Executive have not had the powers that they need in order to deal properly with the issue. I want to give them more powers to be able to deal with antisocial behaviour. Those are five of the papers that the First Minister is blocking.
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