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HANSARDPrivate Rent InflationThe Renters’ Rights Act 2025 contains provisions allowing tenants to challenge unreasonable rent increases. The new tenancy system will come into force on 1 May this year, at…12 Jan 2026HANSARDHouse Building: Stoke-on-TrentThe Government are taking concerted action to boost rates of house building across England, including reforming the planning system and allocating record levels of grant funding…12 Jan 2026HANSARDSocial and Affordable Homes: AldershotAt the spending review in 2025, we announced record investment to kick-start social and affordable housing at scale across the country. Alongside regulatory certainty and…12 Jan 2026HANSARDFreehold Estates ConsultationsFor too many homeowners, the experience of living on a newly developed housing estate has been tainted by the hidden and enduring consequences of unadopted infrastructure. Roads,…18 Dec 2025HANSARDHousing Development: Cumulative ImpactsI do not think that is correct—at least not in the medium to long term. Going back to the point I just made about supply and demand, we have to build sufficient volumes of homes…17 Dec 2025HANSARDHousing Development: Cumulative ImpactsIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Twigg. I congratulate the right hon. Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) on securing this important debate today, and for…17 Dec 2025HANSARDHousing Development: Cumulative ImpactsWe will respond in due course to that report, in the usual way. I take the hon. Gentleman’s point about flood risk; I am trying to set out that local constraints can be taken into…17 Dec 2025HANSARDHousing Development: Cumulative ImpactsThe point was well made and well understood, and I will address it shortly. The new standard method that we introduced relies on a baseline set at a percentage of existing housing…17 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformThe solution to nutrient neutrality and other similar constraints is the environmental delivery plans delivered through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which the hon.…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformI want to mention again the advocacy and work that my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Tom Hayes) did on this subject through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill; he…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and he is one of a number of hon. Members on both sides of the House who have called for greater support for swift bricks, which we recognise…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformThere is support within the new framework to boost local and regional economies, and we want to encourage economic growth by giving substantial weight to the benefits of…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: BNG plays a vital role in protecting and restoring nature, while enabling us to build the homes that this country needs. The Government remain…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformIt is difficult to make blanket statements about individual development sites. There are many reasons why sites across the country are held up, but sometimes they are legitimate…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformI am aware of the case to which the hon. Member refers. There is considerable pressure on the housing infrastructure budget and the projects that remain within it. I am aware that…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformI have referenced before the consolidation and strengthening of the provisions in the framework we published last year in terms of the provision of infrastructure, particularly…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on the Government’s ongoing efforts to overhaul the planning system. As the House is fully aware, England…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning Reform: Next PhaseEngland remains in the grip of a housing crisis that is both acute and entrenched. The detrimental consequences of this disastrous state of affairs are now all pervasive: a…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformI have a lot of time for the hon. Gentleman, but again, I think he misrepresents what is in this new framework, with regard to local involvement and local engagement. He seeks to…16 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning ReformI thank my hon. Friend the Chair of the Select Committee, who makes a very good point. The Conservative party does not want development on the greenbelt, and it does not want…16 Dec 2025