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HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I will not take up much of the Committee’s time on this issue, because we have already explored many of the key points that go to the nub of why these two amendments—57, tabled by…12 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMany of the roads in north Buckinghamshire are in a perilous and dangerous state because of the thousands of heavy goods vehicle movements related to the construction of High…30 Jun 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseAs we look forward to the UK’s largest sporting event, the British Grand Prix, this weekend, by your kind permission, Mr Speaker, Parliament came alive this week to the…30 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q That is certainly part of it. To clarify, it is equally the case that a lot of rural communities would not look the way they do if it were not for farmers maintaining the…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Thank you. Adrian, do you have a view on this? Adrian Dobson: Just to reiterate the point about density. Higher densities can be acceptable. If they are designed in the right way,…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you, Mr Bone. I have asked this question of a number of the witnesses. There has been a controversy in recent years on the assessment of housing need for an area and who…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Just to clarify the question that I am trying to get to the bottom of, my point is not that there will not ultimately be a gap between supply and demand; it is about the effect…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am going to throw something of a curveball, because it is the sort of question that I am hopeful the think-tank world might have a view on. Throughout a lot of the evidence…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you. I appreciate that answer. Before I bring in the others, I appreciate that there will be crossover with the Environment Act and the Agriculture Act. However, I am…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Third sitting)Q I have a very quick last question, as I am aware another colleague wants to come in. Given that parish and town councils know their communities better than any other tier of…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am very grateful for that answer, which I recognise from my own constituency and the wider county that it sits in. On the basis that the system is broken, the Bill would seem…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I appreciate that the use of the word “target” is controversial in this debate, but would there be benefit in making any figure that is calculated by the ONS and propagated by…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)That is very helpful. Thank you.23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Before I ask my question, I should say this: it is not an interest to declare, but I should say for transparency that when I was a councillor in Fulham, Mr Boys Smith was one of…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)It was many moons ago, but I thought I should put that on the record for transparency. We have been looking at what the Bill is seeking to do in terms of protecting heritage and…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you, Mrs Murray. Good afternoon to our witnesses. I work with a lot of parish councils across my constituency, which is predominantly rural. More often than not, parish…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Third sitting)Q That is very helpful. As parishes, town councils and volunteer networks—particularly in London—look to the future on the presumption that this Bill will become law, given the…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Sir Mark. A big theme we are talking about today is localism in the Bill. Many a council over recent decades has been elected on a promise to stop overdevelopment,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Let’s go to Councillor Jamieson, who is chairman of the Local Government Association. Cllr Jamieson: I represent localism, and I think it is all about localism. The Government…21 Jun 2022HANSARD High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) BillMy hon. Friend and I never fell out when we took opposite sides in the Brexit referendum, and we will not fall out over this. He says HS2 has always been about capacity, so why…20 Jun 2022