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HANSARD 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 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 could not agree more. New towns were a feature of our manifesto, and there is a deal of public excitement about that.11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceThis is on two tracks. First, we have deals with 55 of the biggest developers to do those remediations. The money is there, and they need to get on with it. A significant…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceVery briefly.11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceThis has been an important debate on the safety of our residential buildings and, more importantly, the safety of the residents who call those buildings home. The final report of…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceI absolutely can give that commitment. I think the model will change—well, I know the model will change. We want to get rid of the beauty parades, and move to a more allocative…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 ResilienceI will.11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceI can give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. We will absolutely share the best of our knowledge and insight—I am sure that will be a two-way process—to ensure that we are doing…11 Sept 2024HANSARD Building Safety and ResilienceThe right hon. Lady has put that on the record. It speaks to my earlier point about the importance of political will in this space. If we just wait for something to happen, we are…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’s suggestions often come with a smile but a degree of force. He will know that we are not very far from a spending review and a Budget, so I will not make financial…11 Sept 2024HANSARDHigh Streets RegenerationThat is a commitment that we made at the previous election, and we intend to deliver on it.02 Sept 2024HANSARDHigh Streets RegenerationI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. We want to see greater flexibility, and we want to see more integrated, single-settlement funding pots so that local communities…02 Sept 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI share my hon. Friend’s anger that promises that did not have a strong financial backing were made to communities—promises that the Government are having to work their way…02 Sept 2024HANSARDHigh Streets RegenerationThe hon. Gentleman knows whereof he speaks. This is another question that we are addressing up and down the country. We know that banking facilities bring people into towns and…02 Sept 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful for that very important question. Veterans were turned away at the recent elections. We have committed to changing that, and we will introduce the necessary…02 Sept 2024HANSARDHigh Streets RegenerationThe right hon. Lady is exactly right. The future of the high street is not about returning to how things were. There must be a place for leisure, a place, of course, for retail…02 Sept 2024