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HANSARD Business of the HouseMr Speaker, I understand that today is Press Association parliamentary editor Richard Wheeler’s last day in the Gallery. He has covered our proceedings for 12 years, and I am sure…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI reassure the hon. Lady that the big announcement on the £15 billion transport infrastructure projects for metro mayoral areas was just a start, and that there is more to come. I…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWe want to see high standards in public life, including in local government and among councillors. We are looking at how we can take steps and bring forward legislation to…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend raises the really important issue of empty listed buildings and how they could be brought back into use and made better use of. I will absolutely ensure that a…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Lady is right to raise this issue. I am sure that many people would be surprised to realise that data sharing does not happen in the way that we all imagine it does…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThat is a shocking case in my hon. Friend’s constituency, which I know has rightly attracted a great deal of attention. I congratulate her on continuing to press the matter. This…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI am sure we all recognise these cases from our own constituencies. Such circumstances are absolutely shocking. I assure my hon. Friend that our Renters’ Rights Bill, which has…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Member highlights just a few of the very moving and powerful impacts of that documentary, which I am sure many people have watched. It is hard to not be moved by the…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe right hon. Member is absolutely right to raise the particular lessons that we should learn from the end of the war in the far east, and the importance of recognising VJ Day in…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue. He is right that mental health services are in crisis and, frankly, are just not fit for purpose. That is what we inherited, which…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI join my hon. Friend in thanking all those who work with Tough Enough To Care, and thank him for highlighting the important work that it does. It is still absolutely shocking…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWe will be debating the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill further next Friday, and probably soon thereafter. We all have different views about the issue itself, but I agree…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseLast night, I attended Jo Coburn’s “Daily Politics” leaving do, and the spats that the right hon. Gentleman and I had on her show on a few occasions were featured in her leaving…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWe make no apology for wanting to build more homes—more affordable homes, more social homes—for people to live in, which, frankly, the hon. Member’s Government failed to do in all…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HousePark homes, and particularly the site owners’ commission on sales, are regularly raised with me at business questions. I am sure a debate would be very popular were my hon. Friend…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI am sorry to hear about the incident in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency and the impact that the renewable transport fuel obligation is having on the renewable sector there. We…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWomen’s sport has been raised a few times this morning. It will always make a popular topic for a debate, but I join my hon. Friend in congratulating her constituent and…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend makes a strong case for how important nuclear energy is to his constituency and the whole country, and linking up the assets that exist in Barrow and Cumbria is…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Member is right to raise the issue of poor mobile phone signal, and I am sorry to hear that it seems to be so bad in his constituency in Worcestershire. He is right:…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank my hon. Friend for raising that. She is right that social housing landlords do have legal duties to carry out high-standard repairs and maintenance but, all too often,…05 Jun 2025