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HANSARDManagement of the Economy and Ministerial Severance PaymentsIf the hon. Member wants to be the first on the Government Benches to apologise, I will certainly give him the opportunity.15 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]May I be the first to welcome the right hon. Gentleman back to his place. I very much enjoyed sparring with him over the Dispatch Box last time. I also particularly enjoy these…07 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and for the work that he has done over many years to highlight the housing crisis in this country. He is absolutely right; it is not…07 Nov 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. In July, the Prime Minister was recorded saying that, as Chancellor, he had changed funding formulas to benefit better-off communities at…31 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsOh my word, the Secretary of State has not done an assessment, has he? This is literally the only policy that the Government have left and he has not checked whether it will work.…17 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the Secretary of State to his place. He is the third Secretary of State I have had the pleasure of shadowing in the past 10 months and I wish him well for however long…17 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt would be laughable if the Government’s failure to do their job had not brought this country to a standstill and was not about to get much worse. The Secretary of State talks…27 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have had a week of travel chaos while the Transport Secretary has sat idly by, and there is another crisis on the horizon: the local government cleaners, social workers and…27 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Housing and Building SafetyMy right hon. Friend makes an extremely good suggestion, which I hope the Government will take up. It is not just the huge costs that are causing such damage to people; it is the…09 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Housing and Building SafetyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I would add to the many challenges currently facing councils and housing associations the challenge of decarbonisation and the goal of net…09 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Housing and Building SafetyMay I press the Minister on the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Matthew Pennycook) about the regulator potentially keeping the proceeds of…09 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Housing and Building SafetyI think my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee, is making the Secretary of State’s day. We can add that to the very long list of problems. I think his question was more…09 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Housing and Building SafetyOn 14 June 2017, every single person in this country watched in horror as a blaze in London became, within hours, one of the worst disasters of modern times. Some 72 people lost…09 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI do not need to dwell on the point about a lack of respect; we have just seen the most stunning display of a group of representatives who will open their mouths but cannot open…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillNo, we have heard plenty from the hon. Member and it is about time that he listened. We were given a promise of the biggest transfer of powers out of Whitehall, but instead, we…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillThe right hon. Gentleman talks about doom gloom around the north of England, but I have just told him about the life-changing jobs that were brought to those communities by action…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI agree with my hon. Friend, who reminds us that we have had 12 long years without real action to put power back in people’s hands. He raises a really important point—I think all…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillPerhaps the right hon. Gentleman could ask the Secretary of State that question, because it was his then policy adviser who led the campaign against it. In all fairness to the…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI certainly will, but I ask the Secretary of State: did he have knowledge of this? Did he sign it off? Let me say to him: that sounds awfully like corruption to me.08 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI will give way in a moment. In 19 of the last 20 years, only two regions of our country have been given the backing they needed from their Government to succeed. They cannot try…08 Jun 2022