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Conservative Party chair Kevin Hollinrake criticises the government's announcement to build over 70,000 affordable homes in the next ten years, saying "we don't know where the money's coming from." Mr Hollinrake adds that Andy Burnham has "made the promise he's going to build them but hasn't established how he's going to pay for them". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, we don't know where the money is coming from. That's the problem. You can make all the announcements you
00:03want, but you've got to actually set out your plans of how you're going to pay for them.
00:07Where's the money coming from? I get asked all the time by the sensible people in North Yorkshire and indeed
00:11around the country.
00:12And the reality is this money has not been allocated in the spending review.
00:17And that's where the government sets out its plan about where it's going to spend taxpayers money.
00:21It's not done that. So it simply made the promises we're going to build them, but it hasn't hasn't established
00:26how it's going to pay for them.
00:28So I don't welcome any announcement that does not come with clear spending plans and how those plans are going
00:35to be paid for.
00:36So, no, I'm afraid I do not. And we are seeing this government has a very poor track record in
00:42terms of building houses.
00:43They said they're going to be a lot more houses than we were, about 30 percent more houses than we
00:48were at the time and actually building about 20 percent less.
00:52So their plans for housing are falling apart.
00:55And I think this will be another announcement that falls apart under scrutiny.
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