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HANSARD Houses in Multiple OccupationCouncils have that power. I do not know off the top of my head whether the hon. Gentleman’s local authority has consulted on and put in place an article 4 direction, but if it has…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Houses in Multiple OccupationAs I have said, I am more than happy to sit down with my hon. Friend and other hon. Members to hear their suggestions on where the regulations need to be strengthened. As a…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Houses in Multiple OccupationI will give way in a second, but let me briefly mention resources, which are really important. It is vital that councils have the capacity to take action where needed. That is why…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Houses in Multiple OccupationLet me just give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields before I come to the hon. Gentleman.25 Jun 2026HANSARD Houses in Multiple OccupationI do not have that information to hand. I am more than happy to follow up in correspondence with my hon. Friend, as I said. I will bring that data, and any further data we have…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Houses in Multiple OccupationI am happy to sit down and run my hon. Friend through the instrument in lots more detail than I can give from the Dispatch Box, but it is the case that the national scheme of…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Houses in Multiple OccupationThe register was successful in its aims in terms of providing operators with a chance to submit uncontracted, unsold section 106 units. Roughly over 4,000 units were put into that…25 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkMadam Deputy Speaker, please accept my sincere apologies for being slightly late to the Chamber.23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkExcellent. I am very glad to hear it. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I congratulate the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Nick Timothy) on securing this debate. I assure him that I…23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkI thank the hon. Gentleman for that question, which pre-empts the next of his questions that I was going to come on to. He asked me specifically to rule out the establishment of a…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHome Buying and Selling: Reform RoadmapMy noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government (Baroness Taylor of Stevenage) has today made the following statement: Buying or…22 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Private Landlord Redress Schemes (Approval and Designation) Regulations 2026I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Private Landlord Redress Schemes (Approval and Designation) Regulations 2026. It is an absolute pleasure to serve with…22 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Private Landlord Redress Schemes (Approval and Designation) Regulations 2026I thank both the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, and the Liberal Democrat spokesman, the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington, for those…22 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026. It is a pleasure to serve with you in…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026I thank right hon. and hon. Members for their considered contributions and questions, which I will try to address in turn. It is first worth making clear that the two minor and…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026We have, to the extent that marine plans impact on spatial development strategies; I will outline the relationship when I respond to the questions asked by my hon. Friend the…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026The right hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not take a sideline into a philosophical discourse on the meaning of a strategy or of a report that I do not think he named and I…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026If the right hon. Gentleman’s intervention is about the actual regulations that we are debating, I will give way.17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026If the right hon. Gentleman wants to write to me about the whole of Government report that he cites—I do not think that he has mentioned the title—I will happily consider some of…17 Jun 2026HANSARDLocal PlansMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. We have spoken before about the importance of rural exception sites and what more can be done. In the NPPF consultation, which I…15 Jun 2026