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HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf memory serves, I answered another question from the hon. Gentleman on precisely this topic. He knows, I think, that we are out to consultation on the matter. If he wants to…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Infrastructure: Cramlington and KillingworthIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cramlington and Killingworth (Emma Foody) on securing the debate. I also…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Infrastructure: Cramlington and KillingworthI well understand the point that my hon. Friend makes. It is not for me, as the Minister of State for Housing and Planning, to make determinations on individual transport projects…18 Nov 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights Act: Implementation Road MapIn their manifesto, the Government promised to overhaul the regulation of our country’s insecure and unjust private rented sector. The Renters’ Rights Act delivers on that…17 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI am happy to intervene just to make clear that we did not adopt the amendments that were pressed on Report. There are very crucial differences between the package that we…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure Billindicated dissent .13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMay I draw the hon. Gentleman’s attention to district-level licensing schemes for great crested newts, as an example of where a strategic approach can benefit a species…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI will of course pick up the drafting error that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has identified and rectify that. I am more than happy to take the data point away and reflect…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI think that is a slightly unfair précis of what I said. I take very seriously the commitments I make from this Dispatch Box. I have committed, in a consultation that will take…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI thank my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for that question—it is an apt and fair one. Such protections are already in place in the national planning policy framework. I…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI will not, I am afraid, as I am bringing my remarks to a close, but I am happy to respond to any points when winding up the debate. I appreciate the leave you have given me,…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI will come to why we cannot accept Lords amendment 39. I respectfully disagree with the CPRE on this matter—and on a number of others, as it happens. There is not enough land on…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI am afraid that my hon. Friend is conflating two entirely separate issues. We are committed to introducing a new suite of national policies for development management. We will…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe Chancellor will set out her decisions on the Budget in fairly short order and the right hon. Gentleman will have to wait for that. I am going to be quite strict in sticking to…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillSustained economic growth is the only route to delivering the improved prosperity our country needs and the higher living standards working people deserve. That is why it has…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI cannot go beyond what I set out earlier. We will put the proposals out to full consultation before the end of the year. I will address the subject of irreplaceable habitats in…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 1.13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI am sure my hon. Friend will appreciate that I cannot comment on individual planning applications, but the Government have been consistently clear that meeting our ambitious…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to this debate. In opening the debate, I set out at some length the reasons why the Government are resisting the bulk…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI recognise the point my hon. Friend makes, but I do not agree that the change will mean Select Committees do not have the opportunity to feed their views into Government. As I…13 Nov 2025