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HANSARD Rebalancing Regional EconomiesI agree with that. When I visited my hon. Friend’s constituency, I was struck by the fact that he is in a valley, and if anything is wrong with that road, everything is wrong with…14 May 2025HANSARD Rebalancing Regional EconomiesIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. It was a pleasure to hear the outstanding contribution by my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Andy…14 May 2025HANSARD Rebalancing Regional EconomiesI recognise that Cornwall is different. That point is obviously established in multinational architecture as well. There is no doubt that there are differences in Cornwall. I know…14 May 2025HANSARD Rebalancing Regional EconomiesI agree that child poverty is particularly cruel. It is cruel because of the hardship that those children grow up in, but it is also cruel because their potential is snuffed out…14 May 2025HANSARD Rebalancing Regional EconomiesI will shortly. That will cover the entirety of the north, which may well be the point that my hon. Friend wants to make.14 May 2025HANSARD Rebalancing Regional EconomiesMy hon. Friend, with characteristic vigour, takes me to the next part of my argument. I do not see the finished devolution product being a shift of power from Whitehall and…14 May 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformThat excellent innovation by the local authority reflects one of the needs that the public want to see met. In my final minute, I want to address the point that the hon. Member…13 May 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformThank you for that clear direction, Mrs Hobhouse; it is very helpful. I congratulate the hon. Member for Horsham (John Milne) on securing this important debate and on his…13 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationI am slightly loath to start a speech on the national planning policy framework—not least because I think you will smite me down, Mr Efford—but I have heard the hon. Gentleman’s…06 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Efford. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) and the hon. Member for Newton Abbot (Martin Wrigley)…06 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationI suspect that my reply to the hon. Lady will be the same as I have set out previously to a number of Members, either via written question or in correspondence. The timeframe is…06 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationI appreciate that this is an urgent issue—that was a feature of all Members’ contributions. I ask the hon. Gentleman to bear with me when I say “shortly”. At the risk of getting…06 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationMy hon. Friend’s intervention shows that there needs to be, at the heart of this Government’s work, stronger local say about the full transport balance. The goals that he talks…06 May 2025HANSARDHousing, Communities and Local Government…I want to give some context about the financial settlement because it starts with a conversation about money, which has happened throughout the debate. The settlement for this…30 Apr 2025HANSARDHousing, Communities and Local Government…I want to give some context about the financial settlement because it starts with a conversation about money, which has happened throughout the debate. The settlement for this…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Wickford Town Centre RegenerationI congratulate the right hon. Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois) on securing this important debate, which of course comes on the heels of the debate on Wickford…25 Apr 2025HANSARD Wickford Town Centre RegenerationI totally agree—one thing that I wrote down as the right hon. Gentleman was speaking was that I would not want to be Asda in this case. Asda does excellent work in Nottingham, but…25 Apr 2025HANSARD Wickford Town Centre RegenerationThat seems an excellent deal and one that I will absolutely take. On devolution—if only we could go for an hour on that—I have followed a little bit what the right hon. Gentleman…25 Apr 2025HANSARD Coalfields Regeneration TrustI am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) for securing this debate and for raising not just the challenges faced by coalfield communities,…22 Apr 2025HANSARDTown Centres: Population GrowthI am grateful for the opportunity to remind the House, and the hon. Gentleman and his Front-Bench colleagues, that they of course wanted the predecessor programme to the plan for…07 Apr 2025