In a letter published on February 14 Henry Quek took issue with WP secretary-general Pritam Singh's comment in Parliament that the Government should have built more flats ahead of demand
SINGAPORE: Henry Kwek, the Member of Parliament for Kebun Baru, has again chosen to use the Straits Times forum page to air his rebuttals to remarks Workers’ Party politicians Pritam Singh and Leon Perera have made on the topic of housing., that the national broadsheet published on 14 February, Mr Quek took issue with WP secretary-general Pritam Singh’s comment in Parliament that the Government should have built more flats ahead of demand.
The WP responded by flaming the ruling party politician for staying silent on this issue in Parliament, in a“Unlike Mr Kwek, who was silent on Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh’s speech in the course of the debate on the PAP’s and Progress Singapore Party’s motions on affordable and accessible housing, WP’s Sengkang GRC MP Louis Chua stood up in Parliament and put into context the assumptions behind the WP’s 2019 Housing Paper and the figures cited by Mr Kwek in his letter.
He added: “Finally, Mr Kwek would also be aware that the call to build HDB flats ahead of demand did not just come from the WP, but from some of his fellow PAP backbenchers as well.”
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