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HANSARD 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 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 2025HANSARDDraft Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. It is a pleasure to serve with…12 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I thank my hon. Friend for her question, but she tempts me to stray way outside my departmental responsibilities. Instead, I commit to ensure that the relevant Minister from DESNZ…12 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I hope the point is well made that, as part of the NPS process and more widely, we are engaging with developers and operators to determine whether the Government should be making…12 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I thank the shadow Minister and the Liberal Democrat spokesman for that series of points and questions, to which I will do my best to respond—I note that some of them stray…12 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2025That is a fair question and the hon. Gentleman pre-empts the next point that I was going to make, specifically about local accountability. This is important. The NSIP consenting…12 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2025As I said, the NSIP regime provides for local communities, local authorities, other statutory consultees and stakeholders to input into that process. In a similar way to how a…12 Nov 2025HANSARDSocial and Affordable Homes ProgrammeAt the spending review in June, the Government announced £39 billion for a new social and affordable homes programme over 10 years from 2026-27 to 2035-36. The SAHP will give…11 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonI recognise my right hon. Friend’s point. I cannot comment on specific applications, but it is important that I emphasise that applicants will be expected in the first instance to…05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonI am not going to comment on the use of the mayor’s planning powers in specific instances. We think these additional expanded powers are a sensible response to the crisis in house…05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonI will give way briefly, but it will be the final intervention that I accept.05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonI will give way in one second, because I am addressing my right hon. Friend’s point. She got to the nub of the issue, and she said that she recognises that 20% of something is…05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Mundell. I start by congratulating the hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr French) on securing this important debate, and…05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonAs I have said, there will be consultation on the specifics of many parts of this package, but I will address his particular point about the new time-limited planning route. This…05 Nov 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesNo, I will not give way any further. There is another debate to follow and I will not test your patience, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is worth saying that the Competition and Markets…30 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesI won’t. I am more than happy to meet the right hon. Gentleman about this issue, as I do on a regular basis, and pick up these exchanges, but I want to make a bit of progress.…30 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesIf the hon. Lady had been present for the debate, she would have heard extensive exchanges on this subject, but I will set out what the Government intend to do to provide…30 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesIt is a genuine pleasure to follow that constructive speech by the shadow Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Braintree (Sir James Cleverly). I congratulate the hon.…30 Oct 2025HANSARDHousing DeliveryToday, I set out further steps the Government are taking to realise the full potential of greater Cambridge as part of our plans to supercharge growth in the Oxford- Cambridge…23 Oct 2025