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HANSARDGrenfell Tower FireToday in this debate and over the next week, above all else we remember the 72 men, women and children who lost their lives that night in the terrible Grenfell Tower fire. We…06 Jun 2019HANSARDGrenfell Tower FireIt was my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), the Chair of the Select Committee.06 Jun 2019HANSARD Buildings with ACM CladdingI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. His announcement is welcome and needed; most important, it should start to relieve the worry of the thousands of…09 May 2019HANSARD Housing12,500.09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingUnfortunately, although there are good landlords and many tenants are satisfied with the homes that they rent, my hon. Friend has described the experience that too many of the…09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingWe were speaking about that three years ago.09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingIt is indeed, and if my hon. Friend looks at the big Green Paper plan that Labour has published, “Housing for the Many”, she will see that we talk not only about building more but…09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingNo. It is good to see the Housing Minister speaking for the Government today. He not only told the House that housing was the Government’s chief domestic priority, but told an…09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingThe Minister does himself, the Government and the Grenfell survivors a disservice when the story he tries to tell with those figures is so at odds with the experience of the…09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingThe hon. Gentleman has a very short memory. In 2009 we were in the direct aftermath of a global financial crisis and recession. It was the action that the Government took then…09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingIt is the most obvious sign of a broken market, when house builders are making bumper profits and bumper bonuses building homes that ordinary workers cannot afford to buy. These…09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingI am glad that so many Members are keen to speak in the debate, which has been delayed for too long and is unfortunately too short. It has been almost a year since we had a…09 Apr 2019HANSARDHomes for Social RentTwo years ago, the Prime Minister at long last admitted that “we simply have not given enough attention to social housing”. —[ Official Report , 22 June 2017; Vol. 626, c. 169.]…08 Apr 2019HANSARDHomes for Social RentWhat the Secretary of State is doing is not working, which is why we have a housing crisis. One thing that he did not confirm is the hard fact that social house building has hit a…08 Apr 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWell, the Secretary of State has either not done the analysis or he refuses to share it. The Bank of England says that house prices could plunge by 30% on a no-deal Brexit—almost…04 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you, Mr Speaker. One year on from the Salisbury poisoning, we stand with the people and the city, and we applaud their resilience. The other message from Labour is also…04 Mar 2019HANSARDHomelessness: Death RatesThe Secretary of State is a decent man, but that was an answer of sheer irrelevance. People are dying on the streets, and the Government are ducking the hard truth that their…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHomelessness: Death RatesLast year, nearly 600 people died homeless in this country. The Secretary of State was right to admit, in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Preet…28 Jan 2019HANSARDTower Blocks: Dangerous CladdingIt should be a cause for national shame that, over 19 months after the Grenfell Tower fire, I am having to drag Ministers to the House because there are still buildings in this…22 Jan 2019HANSARDTower Blocks: Dangerous Cladding(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government if he will update the House on the action taken and planned by the Government with…22 Jan 2019