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HANSARDPlanning Delivery: AccelerationAs we have done since we came into office, we are looking at all obstacles to delivering new homes, working very closely with the sector. I have had a number of issues raised with…08 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning Delivery: AccelerationI thank the noble Lord for those comments. Of course, he has great expertise in this area, which I recognise and welcome. I think there are a number of things being done in the…08 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning Delivery: AccelerationThere are proposals that mean that, at the time that a planning application is delivered, local authorities can specify when that application needs to be built out. So we are…08 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning Delivery: AccelerationI know that land value taxes have been looked at many times over the years and that the noble Lord’s party promotes them, but they are much more complex than is sometimes set out…08 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning Delivery: AccelerationThe Government are delivering a set of pro-supply, pro-growth planning reforms. We have updated the National Planning Policy Framework, introducing bold new growth focus measures…08 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning Delivery: AccelerationOn the delivery of previous Housing Secretaries, it did not help having 17 different Housing Ministers over the last 14 years. We want to get moving on this. I was very pleased to…08 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, and the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, for tabling these amendments which relate to the assets of community value scheme, and the…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady McIntosh of Pickering and Lady Grender, for their amendments on flood risk and resilience in the planning system. I also thank many…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Pinnock, Lady Scott and Lady Coffey, and the noble Lords, Lord Jamieson, Lord Lansley and Lord Cameron, for their amendments. I also…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillWell, well, my Lords. I start by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, for her amendments and for notifying us of her intent, alongside the noble Lord, Lord Jamieson, to oppose…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, that was a very interesting, wide-ranging, detailed and thoughtful debate around many planning matters, including some of the amendments that had been tabled. I am very…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness for that and for her long-standing lobbying on flooding issues. We have a group of amendments later today on flooding. I hope that I can pick…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, and the noble Lords, Lord Fuller, Lord Thurlow, Lord Moynihan and Lord Lansley, for their amendments, and all noble Lords who…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI come back to the point I made that if an applicant applies to the Secretary of State, a planning inspector would consider the case and then advise the Minister or the Secretary…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillWe trust planning officers, but we do not want to undermine that scheme of delegation. Amendment 135HZF seeks to ensure that any applications by the council itself or any of its…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, for tabling these amendments, and the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, the noble Lord, Lord Foster, and the noble Baroness, Lady…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for tabling Amendment 113. He is right that I was not intimately acquainted with the procedure of termites in France.…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lords who tabled these important amendments and their two substitutes for speaking to them. I thank all noble Lords for their patience in a very long…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillTo take the noble Lord’s last point first, my optimism and determination is to get to Amendment 135, but we shall see. I hope I have reassured him on the point about continuing to…04 Sept 2025HANSARDLocal Audit (Amendment of Definition of Smaller Authority) Regulations 2025My Lords, these regulations were laid before the House on 16 June 2025. Effective local audit is vital for local accountability and transparency. The Government are committed to…03 Sept 2025