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HANSARDPhonics Teaching: Isle of WightI thank Ministers, first for the new special educational needs school for the Island—it is much appreciated—and secondly for agreeing to a phonics conference in June. The recent…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Isle of Wight: Island Designation Status and Landscape ProtectionI beg to move, That this House has considered Isle of Wight island designation status and landscape protection. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Latham.…06 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyI apologise for intervening yet again. Developers restrict build-out in order to keep land prices high. Is not the answer a “use it or lose it” rule, or to put pressure on…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyI was looking for a point to come in to show my support for the Minister. I remind her that this Conservative Government have averaged 222,000 homes a year, when new Labour…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyMy right hon. Friend talks about the planning system being the problem, not land banking per se. Does he accept the figures from Lichfields, which show that from getting planning…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyMy right hon. Friend may find that that figure is disputed. When we look at motorway service stations and urban lighting, we see that urban sprawl means the number is…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyThe hon. Lady says that the Government need to build out. The Government do not have these planning permissions; it is the planning industry and the developers that do. How would…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyI have listened to all the contributions, and I am probably out of step with quite a few hon. Members here, but nobody is talking about the failure of the builders to build. The…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way to a disgruntled Back Bencher. If he reads the NPPF letter, the “Dear colleague” letter, he will find that although there is leeway on…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyI am going to break the consensus slightly, but not, I hope, in an unhelpful way. It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous), who made some…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyI thank my right hon. Friend for a really fascinating speech and hope that the debate will be of equal quality. There is an issue with density. Garden cities are a fantastic idea,…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing Supplyrose —05 Jun 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMinimum service levels are entirely sensible; it is an idea whose time has come, and it shows that we support the working people in this country, unlike the Opposition parties. On…22 May 2023HANSARDPublic Access to NatureI am going to look at access to nature in relation to protection of the natural world—and, indeed, access to it—through the prism of my constituency, which means that I will be…18 May 2023HANSARD Recovering Access to Primary CareI welcome the statement. I notice the difference in opinion on the Opposition Benches between the people who know what they are talking about and the people who do not. Pharmacy…09 May 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage Dischargerose—25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeI listened closely to the speech from the shadow Secretary of State, which I have to say was pretty poor—and given that I have listened to quite a few Labour speeches in my time,…25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeWill the hon. Gentleman give way?25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeCommunity schemes are a small part of this. People write to me and ask, what can a community scheme do? Hon. Members are right that major investment has to happen, but the first…25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeEarlier today, the hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton (Jim McMahon) made a truly dire attempt at public speaking in which he avoided most of the questions put to him. One of…25 Apr 2023