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HANSARDRegional InequalityIt is not just the UK shared prosperity fund, but the levelling-up fund that has seen money go to not just Liverpool city region, but all those areas we are targeting that have…21 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and her impassioned advocacy of better support for children and families in the first 1,001 days of a child’s life has helped to shape…21 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAcross the House there is a determination to ensure that the terrible tragedy of Grenfell is met with appropriate steps, both legislatively and in regulatory terms, and also that…21 Nov 2022HANSARDLevelling Up and Regeneration BillThe Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill contains important powers to drive local growth, empower local leaders to regenerate their areas and ensure that everyone can share in the…17 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe hon. Gentleman articulates a fair concern, and it is striking that Awaab’s parents were told that paint in itself would be an answer to the mould problem. In some…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has campaigned on these questions for some time. He is right: we must ensure that the ombudsman and regulator are appropriately resourced, and…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsOf course, when the hon. Gentleman and his Committee published their report, I think I had just beforehand left office, and only relatively recently have I returned to office. But…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsAbsolutely, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for raising that issue. Although Guildford is an absolutely beautiful city, there are some parts that…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe consistent theme from Members across the House is the need to ensure that appropriate resources are there, and one commitment I give to the House is that I will seek to ensure…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe hon. Lady makes a fair point about ensuring that we do everything possible to support local authorities to increase social housing stock. Of course, we do need to keep that…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe hon. Lady makes an important point; I am grateful for her support for my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) and his legislation. There is a big problem in…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that case. The housing and planning Minister, my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for South East Cambridgeshire (Lucy…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe hon. Lady has made an important point, which gives me the opportunity to say two things. First, we do need professionalism within the sector overall, and that is one of the…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe hon. Lady makes an important point. We have a number of very different things that are operating in tension and that we need to review. First, we need to ensure, at a time of…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsI am grateful to the hon. Lady. The Bill that she introduced became an Act in 2018, and it is landmark legislation. She is right to say, as she warned at the time, that…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe right hon. Gentleman and I have disagreed on many things in this House, but I have to say that I agree with every single word he just said.16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe hon. Lady raises a number of important issues. First, local authorities such as Leicester can use selective licensing, which can be a powerful tool. Local authority leaders…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsI am very grateful to the hon. Member for the points he makes. Again, I express my sympathy to his constituents who have had to deal with some of the defects that Rochdale…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsThe hon. Lady makes an important point. It is certainly the case that the two RSLs she mentions have failed tenants in the past and she is right to call that out. Her broader…16 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsWe know that there are at least 2.3 million homes that fail the decent homes standard, broadly. We know that a higher proportion of homes fail it in the private rented sector than…16 Nov 2022