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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q I thank the panel members. I would like to dig down a bit on local plans, and to build on Ms Hills’s comments on the need for a chief planning officer. There are two parts to my…24 Apr 2025HANSARDResidential Estate Management CompaniesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stuart. My constituents tell me over and over again about the poor performance and lack of accountability of residential…22 Apr 2025HANSARDOther CorrectionI thank my hon. Friend for his speech and for highlighting the gaps that exist in local government. I am sure he will recognise that, as the Local Government Association and the…02 Apr 2025HANSARDOther CorrectionI thank my hon. Friend for his speech and for highlighting the gaps that exist in local government. I am sure he will recognise that, as the Local Government Association and the…02 Apr 2025HANSARDOther CorrectionPlanning and Infrastructure Bill The following extract is from Second Reading of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on 24 March 2025.02 Apr 2025HANSARDSpring StatementI thank the Chancellor for her statement. I represent Barking, which she will know has some of the highest deprivation figures in the country, and where 20% of working adults have…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe hon. Gentleman gives me an opportunity to highlight the fact that my local authority has been building homes far faster than most local authorities across the country. The…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy local authority has committed to building homes and it has a good record. One barrier to being able to deliver homes at speed is the fact that we see infrastructure delayed…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes the shadow Minister recognise that, under the previous Government, communities were hindered in being able to shape proposed development by only a third of local authorities…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that open green spaces are not always the most biodiverse, and that we need a more joined-up approach to providing investment in those spaces?24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI thank my hon. Friend for his speech and for highlighting the gaps that exist in local government. I am sure he will recognise that, as the Local Government Association and the…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI declare an interest as the vice-president of the Local Government Association. I support the Bill because we must do everything we can to deliver the building of more housing in…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Conflict in GazaI thank the Foreign Secretary and his team for what I know are personal diplomatic efforts to play the UK Government’s part in making sure that we can return to a ceasefire.…20 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social CareI am very pleased to have accepted my hon. Friend’s intervention and I entirely agree with her. If we want to see an improvement in the estate of the NHS, we need to have money…05 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social CareOn the point about the inability of ICBs sometimes to get things going, in my constituency it has taken the ICB nine months to procure something very similar. Does the hon. Lady…05 Mar 2025HANSARDCourts and Tribunals: Sitting DaysI thank the Secretary of State for her statement. As a member of the Public Accounts Committee, I have recently heard details about the shocking state of disrepair in our courts…05 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social CareMay I take this opportunity to thank the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the hon. Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown), for his work, as well as other…05 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social CareMy hon. Friend makes an important point, because health inequalities are determined by a multitude of factors and the work that local authorities do on public health is crucial…05 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social CareI will not take any interventions at this point—actually, I will.05 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social CareI do not disagree with that, which is why the Government commitment around reform will be so critical. I sit on the Public Accounts Committee that produced the report that…05 Mar 2025