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HANSARD Antisemitic OffencesI am genuinely grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich East (Nicola Richards) for giving us the opportunity to speak about this hugely important subject, and to…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Antisemitic OffencesI will not give way. Postmodernism is an insidious, regressive and depressing call to all our worst selves, relying on false binaries and erroneous arguments. Most of the time, it…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Antisemitic OffencesI will not, if I may. Like so many others in this debate, I have seen examples as a constituency MP. Individual one: an employee at a Russell Group university who raises money for…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingOn my hon. Friend’s second point, absolutely. On his first point, I will read the footnote to paragraph 1.81 of the NPPF: “The availability of agricultural land used for food…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: a balance must be struck. We will review the situation in London. We do not think that it is acceptable; we do not think that the Mayor has…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingI am a huge fan of neighbourhood plans, as are many of my colleagues across the House. They give communities the opportunity to get involved in the planning process and to get…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingI have the greatest of respect for the hon. Gentleman, but we need to have a serious conversation about this. Planning consents are down because planning applications are down,…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his question. For the first time ever, the NPPF says, at paragraph 61: “The outcome of the standard method is an advisory…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingWe are keen to ensure that local plans progress as quickly as possible, not just for York but for every other council that chooses to pursue the process, and we will continue to…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingI believe that the Liberal Democrats have been in charge of St Albans City and District Council since 2019. That is four and a half years of opportunity to put a local plan in…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingOn my right hon. Friend’s second point—I am grateful to her for raising it—the duty to co-operate has been superseded. The point of the advisory starting point is to be very clear…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is one reason why we have been clear with a number of councils today that they need to get on with things. The whole point is that we put…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingIt is absolutely the case that the purpose of amending the national planning policy framework today is so that this information and wording, and the insertion of the advisory…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingMy hon. Friend is absolutely correct about the importance of older people’s housing. We are currently in the process of supporting an older people’s housing taskforce, and I look…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingWe are not preventing increases of urban density. Indeed, we want that to happen. We recognise that there are considerations around things such as second staircases, which we are…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingI am grateful to my hon. Friend not just for her question, which gives us only a few seconds to talk about the matter, but for her Adjournment debate a few days ago, when we had a…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingMy right hon. Friend is right that we consulted on that subject. In recognition of that consultation, we have chosen not to take forward the over-supply point at this time, but we…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingMy hon. Friend is a huge champion for her constituents in South Ribble. We need local plans in place. I saw when I first became an MP in North East Derbyshire, where the Labour…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingThe footnotes to paragraph 61 use as an example “areas that are islands with no land bridge that have a significant proportion of elderly residents.” I hope my hon. Friend will…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Long-term Plan for HousingI apologise on behalf of the Department for the points you have just highlighted, Madam Deputy Speaker. With permission, I would like to make a statement on the Government’s…19 Dec 2023