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HANSARDMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentI thank the Chair of the Select Committee for calling this important debate. Let me start with what I think should be seen as positive news and welcomed across the Chamber: the…24 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyMilton Keynes is proud to be a growing city, but too often under the previous Government new homes did not come with the infrastructure required for the new communities. Will the…19 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI start by appreciating the description of a rant—I will keep ranting on this point until I do not have to speak to my constituents waking up in temporary accommodation because of…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillOn that point, will the Minister give way?09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes the hon. Member agree that what he has just described would lead to more delays in the system, which would mean that more planning permissions were held up—something that…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI will make some progress. Now we have a Bill that will finally move us towards environmental delivery plans that take a far more strategic approach to improving nature and…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillIn one of the wettest countries in Europe, we could face summer water shortages because we have not built a single major reservoir in over 30 years. Here is the real kick in the…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillHundreds of thousands of children will wake up tomorrow morning in temporary accommodation as a consequence of this, and millions of families will continue paying some of the…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMay we please start by acknowledging something that still has not been acknowledged enough: the current planning system is broken? Nowhere is that clearer than in our…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillOh, is it?09 Jun 2025HANSARDHospitalsI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention, and for the work that her family have done for our national health service. It is not the staff’s fault that our NHS has been let…23 Apr 2025HANSARDHospitalsA few months ago I stood in this Chamber and told a story that I wished I did not have to tell. It was about my 91-year-old grandmother, and the night that we had to rush her to…23 Apr 2025HANSARD UK-US Trade and TariffsThe automotive industry is incredibly important for workers in Milton Keynes, with many headquarters based there, such as Volkswagen’s. I realise that these tariffs will be…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI have an essay in front of me, in which it is argued that when the Government pay for new infrastructure, new roads or new developments in order to unlock new housing, the…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that that is why we need significantly more planning officers in our local authorities to ensure that we can unlock a lot of that development?24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI recently visited my 93-year-old grandmother, who was a constituent living in rural Buckinghamshire back in the 1960s. At that time, she expressed many of the concerns that he…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI agree, and I hope that the nature restoration fund can be an opportunity to make those spaces more biodiverse. I am trying to support a wetlands art project in my constituency…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI note the length of time that that reservoir has taken to be built. It would be nice if someone on the Conservative Benches started by acknowledging their Government’s lack of…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThat is true. Certainty is incredibly important to enable the housing sector to invest in the skills, development and modern methods of construction that will enable us to…24 Mar 2025