Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
Has the Conservative government really built a record number of social rent homes since 2010?
Housing minister Rachel Maclean claimed the government has built a record number of social rent homes. Tim and the team investigate. Following Lucy Letby’s conviction, we look at how sentences for murder have changed over the past few decades. Plus, after Liz Truss’s speech this week defending her short stint as prime minister, Tim reminds us how her mini-budget raised borrowing costs and might have pushed up the national debt even more if it had been implemented. And will 1 in 11 workers in England really work for the NHS by the middle of the next decade?
Presenter: Tim Harford
Series producer: Jon Bithrey
Producers: Daniel Gordon, Natasha Fernandes, Nathan Gower, Charlotte McDonald
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele
Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar
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Has the government built a record amount of social housing?
Duration: 07:54
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- Wed 20 Sep 2023 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Fri 22 Sep 2023 16:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 24 Sep 2023 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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