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HANSARDGeneral Practice: Large Housing DevelopmentsIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. I genuinely think that this has been a valuable debate about an important issue. I congratulate the hon. Member for South…29 Mar 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Strip-search of SchoolgirlThis is a deeply disturbing case both in terms of what happened and the fact that racism was clearly a factor, but may I ask the Minister how it came to light? According to the…21 Mar 2022HANSARD Private Rented Sector HousingThe one question I would like the Minister to answer before he wraps up is why the Government have decided to replace a commitment to a renters reform Bill in this Session with a…15 Mar 2022HANSARD Private Rented Sector HousingAs always, it is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Gary. This has been, I think, an incredibly important debate about an issue that really does not get enough…15 Mar 2022HANSARDDraft Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022Thank you for clarifying that, Mr Gray. My questions relate directly to the instrument in the sense that it concerns EPC ratings. The Minister is responsible for the climate…08 Mar 2022HANSARDDraft Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure, as always, to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Gray. I thank the Minister for so ably summarising the regulations, which, for reasons that will be obvious to…08 Mar 2022HANSARDSupport for First-time BuyersThe Opposition have repeatedly criticised the Government’s First Homes scheme on the grounds that, by top-slicing section 106 funding, it drastically reduces the number of social…07 Mar 2022HANSARDHigh-rise Buildings: RemediationI will not put the Minister on the spot with a question, but I will just request that he go away and consider how we can speed up that application process, because far too many…02 Mar 2022HANSARDHigh-rise Buildings: RemediationIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mrs Miller. This has been an incredibly worthwhile debate on an issue that we all agree deserves more attention and that will only…02 Mar 2022HANSARD Non-commissioned Exempt AccommodationIt is an absolute pleasure to follow that powerful speech from my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips). This has been an excellent debate, featuring a…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ8. In the panicked Downing Street staffing reshuffle at the weekend, the Prime Minister appointed to a senior role a man who recently lobbied the Government on behalf of Huawei…09 Feb 2022HANSARDRail Services: South-east London8. What plans he has to help improve services for rail passengers in south-east London.03 Feb 2022HANSARDRail Services: South-east LondonThe Minister will be aware that both Southeastern and Thameslink services in south-east London are running on a reduced timetable. With the restrictions having eased and growing…03 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWould the Secretary of State give the House a clear and categorical assurance that if he cannot ultimately extract enough money from industry finally to fix the building safety…24 Jan 2022HANSARD Building Safety BillIt will not have escaped your notice, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I have taken on this Bill in its final stages, so I must begin by thanking my hon. Friends the Members for…19 Jan 2022HANSARD Building Safety BillMy hon. Friend makes a very good point, which she has made in other debates in this place with regard to unscrupulous developers operating in her constituency. Changes to company…19 Jan 2022HANSARD Building Safety BillThe Chair of the Select Committee is absolutely right; it would be a travesty if the Government or this Department were forced to raid the affordable homes programme to cover the…19 Jan 2022HANSARD Building Safety BillMy right hon. Friend, as so often, is absolutely right that it is an uphill struggle for leaseholders to get together to begin legal action of this kind. He also raises the highly…19 Jan 2022HANSARD Building Safety BillI thank the Father of the House for that intervention. That is a very good suggestion, which I hope the Minister will take on board and give some considered thought to.…19 Jan 2022HANSARD Building Safety BillMy constituency neighbour, who shares many of the same case load issues relating to the building safety crisis as I do, is absolutely right. A lot that flows from the Secretary of…19 Jan 2022