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HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. We want pace, we want momentum and we want to get on with investing in our communities. Our community delivery unit will be working really…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe are working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care. We understand the pressures that the social care system and its failures—which, again, we have to lay at the…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI would love to join my hon. Friend and I would love some fish and chips. On the £1.5 million, we are getting out the first tranche this autumn, so places will already be getting…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe are working very closely with the Northern Ireland Office, which is in constant contact with the Northern Ireland Executive in terms of pride in place and community investment,…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. This is a huge opportunity to bring the community together and for them to be in the driving seat. Therefore, reaching out to all parts of the…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe are investing in rural communities, whether in Somerset or Wiltshire. We have used very clear metrics—we have used deprivation and the community needs index—to focus the…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceAbsolutely. The Prime Minister spoke about grassroots growth, which is growth rooted in our communities and our places, where we build community wealth, which fundamentally…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI think the hon. Gentleman is asking me to do the Chancellor’s job, which I shall not be able to do. We think that this is an exciting way of investing in our communities, and…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe have been consulting. We have closed the consultation, and we are looking through the responses at the moment. We have had representations from authorities across the country,…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right, and she put it incredibly eloquently. We can change the country by bringing our communities together and giving them the tools and agency to…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe would have loved to have had funding for every part of the country. Sadly, because of the inheritance—the hon. Member has encouraged me to raise this again—of 14 years in which…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. Like him, I am a Co-operative MP, and I think the values of our Co-operative movement run through this programme. It puts local people in…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is completely right. Putting local people and communities in charge is game changing, if we get it right. I think it will lead to better decisions, and to an impact…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI thank the hon. Member, and I am very happy to meet him.15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe have allocated local growth funding to Scotland, which we will announce in due course. In addition, we are working with the Scotland Office on the allocation of the Scottish…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI do. It is a huge opportunity, and if we get this right, we will see tangible benefits in my hon. Friend’s constituency.15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe are not able to fund all areas—I wish we were—so we have focused on particular areas of deprivation that also score high on the community needs index. However, we are also…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceWe will start investing. Phase 1 places are already receiving capacity funding, and £2 million will flow from next year. Phase 2 places—the places we recently announced—will…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceI thank the hon. Member for raising the critical issue of housing. I am incredibly proud that this Government are putting record investment into social and affordable housing—£39…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out the difference in approach—both in allocation and in the power that we are genuinely trying to give communities—between this…15 Oct 2025