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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his new clause. As he has outlined, in share-of-freehold arrangements leaseholders will own the freehold in larger blocks; they are usually…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)The Government recognise that the Law Commission did not think that there was a justification for keeping the exclusion in its current form and recommended its removal, as the…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)Turning first to new clause 15, some leaseholders and homeowners on freehold estates do not currently have access to redress outside of the tribunal or the courts. I should note…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend raises an important point. I recognise the significant body of views in this place and elsewhere about the ability to appoint a right to manage company or a…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureI am grateful to my hon. Friend—another example of speaking up for the north-east. He asked a hugely important question about the importance of business and private enterprise to…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureThese accusations are about the most serious that can be made. If true, they would almost certainly be criminal, and their mere existence threatens confidence in this immensely…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureI am absolutely happy to acknowledge to all Members that the Member is not in his place for a reason. Equally, however, the Member made a series of statements previously and I am…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureThe hon. Gentleman said “the C-word”. That is inferring corruption, which has been absolutely comprehensively disproven in this report. The hon. Gentleman then went on to talk…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. Mayors and mayoral development corporations have the potential to be transformative for their areas, and both Conservative…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint Ventureindicated assent.29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureWith permission, I would like to update the House on the independent review into the South Tees Development Corporation and the Teesworks joint venture, which the Government are…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureAgain the Labour party attempts to move the discussion elsewhere, and I will call it out every time. The report was set up because of extremely serious allegations of…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureThe hon. Gentleman appears to be questioning whether the site is complex. These are not my words, but the words of the review, which many of his colleagues have used, often out of…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureMy right hon. Friend speaks loudly for Teesside and his constituency. I will take the steer of Madam Deputy Speaker and keep my remarks solely to the statements made previously.…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureI am grateful to the hon. Lady; I have the greatest respect for her, and she provides immensely important contributions in this place. But she will recognise, I hope, when we move…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureThe right hon. Gentleman has clearly read some of the report. I just want to draw his attention to some other elements of it. Paragraph 12.7 states: “The project is described as…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for bringing that up. I repeat that we have just had an independent inquiry—an independent inquiry which went through a process that the…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureThe hon. Gentleman, again, is inferring continued corruption. This report said—29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureMy hon. Friend speaks up loudly for the north-east and his constituents. He is absolutely correct that this is a huge opportunity for the north-east, and about the transformative…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Teesworks Joint VentureIf I have misheard the hon. Gentleman, I apologise in advance, but I am pretty sure that he just said that the report was published in November 2023. That was not the case. The…29 Jan 2024