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HANSARDEnergy-efficient House BuildingThe future homes standard will ensure that new homes produce 75% less carbon than those being built today. Those properties will be future-proofed, with low-carbon heating and…19 Apr 2021HANSARD Vagrancy Act 1824It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles, although I hope I will be forgiven for saying that it is not as much of pleasure as it was to hear your pint of…13 Apr 2021HANSARD Vagrancy Act 1824My job as a junior Minister in the Department is to support the Secretary of State in identifying important legislation that needs to be considered. It is then the job of the…13 Apr 2021HANSARDTroubled Families ProgrammeAs required by the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, section 3(1), today my Department has published the 2020-21 annual report of the troubled families programme. The report sets…25 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpThe hon. Lady has identified very important funding needs. The fund will tackle one element of the problems that we are seeking to address. As I set out, there will be about £600…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI thank my right hon. Friend for his question, and for being an exemplar of how an excellent local MP can not only bring funding to his constituency but see the project through to…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI had the opportunity to visit Northern Ireland with the Secretary of State fairly recently, to see for myself the difficult conditions that the right hon. Gentleman has…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI congratulate my hon. Friend on the £37.5 million that he has already secured for his constituency. He demonstrates that an active and able constituency MP can bring funding to…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, but this is quite a significant pie—if we are going to continue to use the food analogy—that we are talking about splitting up. As I…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI thank my hon. Friend for his question. He gives me the opportunity to say again that it is incredibly important that those who are not in category 1 do not feel in any way…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. As I said earlier, the datasets are all publicly available information. With regard to the criteria that we are using to determine…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI thank my hon. Friend for her question. County councils with transport powers are eligible to submit one transport bid, but—this is perhaps more pertinent to her question—local…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind words, although perhaps they evaporated when we got to the question. Clearly, as I set out in my statement, it is the ambition of this…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpAbsolutely. One key aim of the fund is connectivity and transport in local need, so that is absolutely at the heart of what this fund is about. I encourage my hon. Friend to work…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI hope that the hon. Gentleman will understand that I mean him no ill when I say that I suspect the good people of Stirling will soon come to realise that they were better…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpWhat a great finish—questions from England, Scotland and Wales, and good news for those areas, as we explain the funding that this Government will provide to them. I hope that my…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI suspect that like me, Mr Deputy Speaker, you are a keen reader of the Salford Star , where I read the hon. Lady’s comments about pork barrel politics and accusations of…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpI can absolutely offer my hon. Friend that assurance. What is important is that those bids will be assessed on deliverability, value for money and strategic fit. As I said, that…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpWe have no intention of reviewing how the money is allocated. The criteria were determined by civil servants. There was no political influence, so we are still comfortable with…16 Mar 2021HANSARD Levelling UpWell, we can argue about that—it is still seven. When we make very good use of the £125,000 that will be given to Wrexham County Borough Council to help it work up its bid for the…16 Mar 2021