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HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is 100% right. Understanding what is needed is game-changing, and I hope that this programme will deliver the ability to ensure we can act on that understanding.15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI congratulate my hon. Friend on his amazing work to reach out to his community and get that engagement and feedback from people. That is what will drive the change. I thank him…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend highlights the patriots I talked about—the people in our community who have been holding things together despite all the damage done by the Conservatives. We are…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend puts it eloquently and correctly. The power will be in their hands, and it is our job to ensure that is the way it plays out.15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI congratulate my hon. Friend on his work and the huge progress he has made, both in reaching out across his community and in convening and galvanising people to join his…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right to highlight the heroes who helped to hold our communities together through 14 years in which they were neglected and faced huge pressure. Pride…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI thank my hon. Friend for sharing that example. I completely agree; that is an incredibly exciting project. Those sorts of schemes can have a huge galvanising impact on our local…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI 100% agree. That example shows the difference that a Labour Government working with a Labour council can make. We inherited a decade and a half of decline and neglect, and it…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is right to remind us that resources were deliberately taken away from some of our most deprived communities under the last Government, which is a shameful record.…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI thank my hon. Friend for the huge amounts of work she has done to champion this agenda and to come up with ideas to tackle deprivation. She is completely right: it is about…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI thank my hon. Friend for setting out the huge amounts of work and progress in her community. That is a great example of exactly how this can work really well. There is a huge…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. If we get this right, it will be about not only the investment in the next 10 years, but how we create momentum around that and catalyse…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. The approach this Labour Government are taking is to put local residents and communities first. We will all have examples of communities that…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. What is game changing, in my view, is putting local people and communities in the driving seat and giving them powers to decide where they want…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI would be happy to meet the hon. Member. We know there is deprivation across the country, and everything the Government are trying to do, from our strategy to drive growth to the…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. The answers lie with our local communities. If we do the job of creating the space for them, empowering them and building their capacity, they…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point. The pork barrel politics we saw under the last Government were shocking. At a time when our communities were under huge…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point. We believe that communities should be in charge and in the driving seat—that is how we drive transformative long-term…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceAbsolutely. My hon. Friend gives us the example of how not to do this, as we saw that under the Conservative party. If we get this right and we put communities at the very heart…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceAbsolutely, 100%. Communities are in the driving seat, with the neighbourhood board of a cross-section of members of the community—people who have never sat around the table—being…15 Oct 2025