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HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and the failures of the London Mayor to build more houses are well documented. What is perhaps not a surprise is that Reform would…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMay I thank the Minister for all his hard work? He is an incredibly decent and polite man. He may be misguided at times, but we cannot agree on everything. I thank him and his…10 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the Secretary of State has said, Saturday marks the eighth anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy. As she knows, I can confirm to her that I will work constructively with her and…09 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI know that the Secretary of State has had some difficult negotiations this weekend with her colleague the Chancellor. The spending review is critical for the funding of the…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChinese Embassy DevelopmentI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for securing this very important urgent question. Question after question, and…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillTomorrow.09 Jun 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformI appreciate the hon. Lady’s giving way. By way of correction, during the period of our last 10 years in office, there was an average of 207,000 net new home additions every year,…13 May 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this very important debate. He mentioned some of the incentives for first-time buyers. Through the stamp duty discounts, we saved the…13 May 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank the hon. Member for Horsham (John Milne) and congratulate him on securing this important debate. I am afraid…13 May 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformGood for the hon. Gentleman for reading our manifesto—not enough people did, I am afraid. He is right: we did set a more ambitious target, which I am not against. As I said right…13 May 2025HANSARDBirmingham: Waste CollectionIt is astounding that the Secretary of State, having had to resort to calling in the Army to cover her blushes for her failure to resolve the situation, was not intending to make…22 Apr 2025HANSARDResidential Estate Management CompaniesIt is a pleasure to speak with you in the Chair, Mr Stuart. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Devon (Caroline Voaden) on securing this important debate; the strength of…22 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham: Waste Collection(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government if she will make a statement on the disruption to waste collection and the…22 Apr 2025HANSARDHorizon Redress and Post Office UpdateI thank the Minister for his statement, and for advance sight of it. I also thank the campaigners on this issue, with whom I worked for more than five years—both as a Back Bencher…08 Apr 2025HANSARDScunthorpe SteelworksI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers) and Rob Waltham, our excellent candidate for Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, for their engagement and…07 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe effects of the Birmingham bin strike have been declared a major incident, they are a national embarrassment, and with 21° temperatures forecast for later this week, they will…07 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right hon. Lady still has not explained why she has not visited the city to look at this issue at first hand. The right hon. Lady’s manifesto sets out the issue of preserving…07 Apr 2025HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) BillThe Minister says that the solution that he has alighted on meets his manifesto commitment, but his manifesto says, “This new system will level the playing field between the high…31 Mar 2025HANSARDBirmingham City CouncilI thank the Minister for advance sight of the statement. I am sure that the fact that both my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell) and I tabled an…31 Mar 2025HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) BillI thank their noble lordships for their diligent further consideration of the Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill and for the new amendments they have…31 Mar 2025