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HANSARD New Housing: Environmental StandardsIt is pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I am grateful for the opportunity to close this important debate on environmental standards for new housing on behalf…12 Sept 2024HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundI am very grateful for that intervention. I think I can probably speak for most colleagues when I say that the general election was, in many regards, quite a tricky one this time,…12 Sept 2024HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundI am grateful for that intervention. As my hon. Friend knows, I have inherited 15, 16 or 17 strands of local growth funding, all at different stages, with the decisions made, in…12 Sept 2024HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundMy hon. Friend makes an important point. The United Kingdom Government are ambitious for growth across all of the United Kingdom. Ours is a four-nations commitment, and we look…12 Sept 2024HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundIt is a pleasure to respond on behalf of the Government to the excellent speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Rochester and Strood (Lauren Edwards). I am conscious that when I…12 Sept 2024HANSARD New Housing: Environmental StandardsI am grateful for that question. I cannot make that commitment to the hon. Member today. I hope the assurance I have given has demonstrated that there is a pretty clear landing…12 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceVery briefly.11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceEveryone will have been angered by what we saw in the report. All those who played a part and made decisions will rightly reflect on their role and responsibilities in this, and…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceI will in a second, but I have not finished with my hon. Friend just yet. He is a very well-known pollster, but people do not know just how much he loves Milton Keynes; he loves…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceThat is right. That is a well-expressed sentiment, in the context of this debate. It is our job, of course, to express what we think, and all of us will have strongly held views,…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceI am grateful for that thoughtful intervention. I can assure my hon. Friend that Ministers are indeed considering that as part of this whole process. We need to learn those…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceThis is perhaps the defining issue of this generation. All political leaders have to demonstrate that they understand the frustration and pain caused by the lack of decent housing…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceI am about halfway through my remarks about the maiden speeches we have heard, but I assure colleagues that I have an awful lot to say on the substance of the debate. [Hon.…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceMy hon. Friend heard what I said about leasehold, and what we said in the manifesto that we both stood on. I will get to service charges shortly, because both he and our hon.…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceI will come back to what we are going to do about leasehold in more detail in a second, but the principles are exactly as he says. We will be holding those principles in our heads…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceThroughout the debate, colleagues have raised important and startling accounts of just that—the way in which standards have been circumvented. That speaks to what my hon. Friend…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceAn enviable choice of hon. Friends wish to intervene. I give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin (Alistair Strathern).11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceIf anything has come out of the report, and if we have learned anything over the last seven years, it is that getting these remediations done requires really strong political…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceA theme of this debate has been that we will not make the changes we need to make or keep people safe in the way they should be able to expect without really strong political…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceMy hon. Friend makes some very important points about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, which I shall address shortly. On his request to meet me, let me say that I am always…11 Sept 2024