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HANSARDLevelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: there are impacts on both freeholders and leaseholders. Different types of property and tenure are impacted in different ways. Elements…20 May 2024HANSARDLevelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: there are impacts on both freeholders and leaseholders. Different types of property and tenure are impacted in different ways. Elements…20 May 2024HANSARD Gypsy and Traveller SitesThe hon. Gentleman is an experienced Member of the House, and he tempts me to comment on a very recent legal case but, with the leave of the House, I will reserve comment on that…15 May 2024HANSARD Leaseholders and FreeholdersIt is a great pleasure to respond in this short debate, and to talk about an issue of huge importance to so many colleagues around the House. Over the past few months, as we have…15 May 2024HANSARD Leaseholders and FreeholdersMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: there are impacts on both freeholders and leaseholders. Different types of property and tenure are impacted in different ways. Elements…15 May 2024HANSARD Gypsy and Traveller SitesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone) for securing the debate and for giving us the…15 May 2024HANSARDSubstandard HousingThis is a very important issue and one on which the House should rightly spend time. Poor quality homes are a blight on the lives of those who live in them, with the potential to…13 May 2024HANSARDMiners and Mining CommunitiesIt is genuinely a great pleasure to respond on behalf of the Government in this important area of policy. I am grateful to all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to…09 May 2024HANSARDMiners and Mining CommunitiesI am absolutely not going to take any interventions. I have listened to the grievances of Opposition Members for three hours, and it is now time for them to hear the alternative.…09 May 2024HANSARDMiners and Mining CommunitiesI will not give way. I have listened for three hours to the Labour party’s grievances. Labour does not get to set the narrative, having let down mining communities for 13 years,…09 May 2024HANSARDMiners and Mining CommunitiesThe hon. Lady had many minutes in which to set out her view, and now I will respond to it. The hon. Member for Easington talked about the Government continuing to undermine the…09 May 2024HANSARDAffordable Homes Guarantee Scheme 2020: ExpansionToday, I have laid before Parliament a departmental minute setting out the details of a contingent liability that the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities intends…09 May 2024HANSARDChatham Docks Basin 3 RedevelopmentIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Philip. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Rochester and Strood (Kelly Tolhurst) on securing this debate. I…01 May 2024HANSARDChatham Docks Basin 3 RedevelopmentI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her question. As she rightly outlines, we made a number of changes to the NPPF, including one to indicate that the character of an area…01 May 2024HANSARDChatham Docks Basin 3 RedevelopmentI am currently in discussion with Medway. We have sent correspondence to indicate that the authority needs to move, so I will not prejudice the outcome of that. The Labour party…01 May 2024HANSARDChatham Docks Basin 3 RedevelopmentFar too many, as the hon. Gentleman suggests. In doing so, we are definitely aware of each other’s differing positions, and he is right to highlight those. In that spirit, I want…01 May 2024HANSARDChatham Docks Basin 3 RedevelopmentI will give way after one more gentle point, if I may. Finally, on the hon. Gentleman’s statement around the approach of the Government on brownfield building, we have been clear…01 May 2024HANSARDChatham Docks Basin 3 RedevelopmentI am grateful for the clear steer from the Chair and I appreciate the point that you are making, Sir Philip, so I will seek to take greater care with my excitement and interest in…01 May 2024HANSARD Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience: Khan ReviewIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. I begin by thanking all hon. Members. In particular, I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North…30 Apr 2024HANSARD Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience: Khan ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Lady, because she articulates yet again the care that is required in language and assertions, which has been sadly absent from her contributions to the…30 Apr 2024