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HANSARD Playgrounds: Bournemouth EastIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Tom Hayes) on securing this important debate. I…10 Sept 2025HANSARD Housing: North StaffordshireI will happily take that conversation up with colleagues in other Departments, and I am happy to write to my hon. Friend about heritage policy in the planning system more…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Housing: North StaffordshireIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms McVey. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Dr Gardner) on securing the debate and commend her…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Housing: North StaffordshireI will make this the final intervention; otherwise, I will not be able to cover all of the many topics that were raised.09 Sept 2025HANSARD Housing: North StaffordshireI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I am more than happy to pick up that conversation and see where we have got to. For the reasons I have already given, I will not be…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Housing: North StaffordshireI am looking forward to that meeting. The relevant diary slots have moved around on several occasions, but I will ensure that it takes place in the very near future. We can…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Housing: North StaffordshireIt is probably worth me writing to my hon. Friend. The Government have undertaken a number of reforms—building, it has to be said, on reforms made by the previous Government in…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillAs ever, I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He makes a good point. There is evidence that pet damage is, in many cases, not extensive or a particular issue. Where…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI urge the hon. Gentleman to engage with the clear concession I made from the Dispatch Box: the confirmation that the Ministry of Defence will lay before Parliament—and publish on…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillDo those on the Lib Dem Benches have any concerns about one of the issues that I raised: applying the decent homes standard to the defence estate in England when a different…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights Billindicated dissent .08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI am more than happy to continue the conversation with the hon. Gentleman and with Liberal Democrat peers in the other place, but our argument today is that we cannot accept the…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 11.08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillThis Government were elected with a clear mandate to do what the Conservatives failed to do in the last Parliament—namely, to modernise the regulation of our country’s insecure…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillThe shadow Secretary of State failed to address the second concern the Government have about amendment 21, which is the substantial risk of abuse that will flow from the…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillWith the leave of the House, I will close what has been a brief but good-natured and considered debate. I thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have spoken. In opening the…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Housing Provision in StaffordIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dr Huq. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Leigh Ingham) on securing this debate. As you know, she always…22 Jul 2025HANSARDDraft Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) (Amendment) (Extension to the Social Rented Sector) Regulations 2025
Draft Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025 (First sitting)It would not be a debate of any kind with my hon. Friend present were he not to take the opportunity to get Harlow on the record. He is a doughty champion for his constituency and…21 Jul 2025HANSARDDraft Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) (Amendment) (Extension to the Social Rented Sector) Regulations 2025
Draft Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025 (First sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for his broad support for the regulations and their intention, and for his questions. Again, before I address his specific points, I express my…21 Jul 2025HANSARDDraft Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) (Amendment) (Extension to the Social Rented Sector) Regulations 2025
Draft Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025 (First sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Vickers. Alongside our commitment to delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable house building in a generation,…21 Jul 2025