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HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsIt is great that we agree on so much across Parliament as far as housing development is concerned, particularly on the greenhousing issue. I have met developers recently, and I…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsDoes the Minister see an opportunity for retrospective powers to be granted to local authorities to tackle the specific problems outlined by the right hon. Member for Guildford?30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsIt looks as though the Minister is moving towards the idea that we should have retrospective powers for local authorities to ensure that the sites are actually built out. Perhaps…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsWe have heard examples this morning of sites sitting totally empty for donkeys’ years with nothing happening. People have tried to work with developers in the examples that we…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsUnemployment in the north-east is up by 15,000 in the last year, which just shows the imbalance in Government investment. The Minister managed to answer a previous intervention…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsI congratulate the right hon. Lady on securing this debate. I am trying to give her a break to maybe take a mouthful of water, but I am interested in what she thinks those carrots…30 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsQ8. Owing to health inequalities, men in my Stockton North constituency live on average 16 years less than those in the Prime Minister’s. Does he agree it is time that my area got…30 Oct 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Peace in Northern IrelandThe Prime Minister will spend the next several weeks trying to sell his damaging Brexit deal in Northern Ireland, among other places. The Chief Constable of the PSNI believes that…30 Oct 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Peace in Northern Ireland3. What recent assessment he has made of the effect on peace in Northern Ireland of the UK leaving the EU.30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsThere we have it—the absolute difference between different marketplaces. If someone wanted to buy a small, two-bedroom apartment in my constituency, they could buy one brand-new…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsIt is also an unexpected pleasure for me to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. I thank the right hon. Member for Guildford (Anne Milton) for securing the debate. There is no…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsI will develop that point later in my speech, but we believe that we could impose penalties in that situation. If developers were failing to develop the land, we could tax the…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsThe answer to high prices is to provide more homes and drive the prices down, and our ambition is to do that, and not just for younger people. We need to ensure that older people…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsI concur with that. We see this tremendous race by developers to acquire potentially lucrative land, yet they might not be equipped or ready to develop it. They might not have the…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsThat is a fascinating comment. Just look at Crossrail, investment in the Underground or investment in HS2, which is supposed to go to the north—we do not know when it will reach…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsThe Minister will be as aware as I am of the vast number of homes sold under the right to buy that have ended up in the private rented sector because people have sold them and…30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsIt is good that more homes are being built, but does the Minister acknowledge that the Government have failed to meet their own targets almost every year?30 Oct 2019HANSARDBuilding Out Extant Planning PermissionsThe Minister’s statistics may sound impressive, but does she share my concerns? I live at Chelsea Bridge Wharf when I am in London, and each night I pass all the huge new…30 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. I welcome the new contract for asylum seeker support in the north-east, but the Minister will be aware that there is still considerable anxiety because of the lack of…28 Oct 2019HANSARD Environment BillIf the Government are really serious about air quality, surely it is time for them to adopt a 100% standard, to include carbon capture and storage, in any environment Bill that…28 Oct 2019