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HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI have put it on the record, both here and in the Public Bill Committee, that I think this is a principled Minister who knows his stuff. Therefore, he should not be afraid to open…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. The expert he quotes is from Hampshire, so as a Hampshire MP I am bound to say that she is spot on. My right hon. Friend is…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI will give way to the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Luke Murphy) first because he is a sparring partner from the Public Bill Committee—I hope he does not have another quote—and…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy hon. Friend is right. I would also say that there needs to be a code of practice for our tenant farmers. Two of our amendments, which I will speak to shortly, seek to meet the…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I pleaded with the Minister at the beginning of my remarks to meet the concerns of not only Conservative Members or the Green party or…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI understand, and I say this with respect to the hon. Gentleman: I think the new clause is well intentioned, but roads are absolutely necessary. Sometimes, on the CPO powers…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI knew that was coming from the hon. Gentleman. The last Government put forward many things in legislation that we are looking at again. We have been very clear about that, and I…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI will briefly, but he will let me finish this point. The proposals have been put forward by all parties to ensure that the legislation is better and more efficient, but…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI was expecting so much from the hon. Gentleman, given how he intervened on me consistently in Committee with an encyclopaedic knowledge of my previous quotes. I did not know that…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI know that many of my hon. Friends were concerned to hear about my generosity in the Tea Room. It was simply that we were very tired and I bought an espresso for the Minister,…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI expect to see a “Focus” leaflet—or whatever the Lib Dems put out in Hamble Valley—saying that is a Tory broken promise, but when did we ever take notice of the accuracy of Lib…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI heed your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. Development corporations are an over-centralisation of the measures that the Minister is proposing, and planning committees will lose…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe hon. Lady is making a principled speech. Can she explain to the House why she does not think the current local plan regime is adequate to ensure that we have sustainable…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Interruption.] I am entitled to raise a point of order. I appreciate your ruling on this matter, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe hon. Gentleman asks whether I have any proposals. The last Government built the largest number of houses in history. There are many things that we agree need to be done, and…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. [ Interruption. ] Labour Members may chunter, but I have a right to raise a point of order on process in this House. Madam…09 Jun 2025HANSARDSocial Housing SupplyThe Deputy Prime Minister has repeatedly stuck to her commitment that 1.5 million homes, including social homes, will be built over the lifetime of this Parliament despite…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe Minister is making a strong case for the legislation, on which he has worked very hard. However, does he accept that many concerns were raised in Committee, on which we both…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI thought I just spoke once at the end.09 Jun 2025HANSARDLeasehold ReformThe last Government passed the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act, supported by the then Opposition. Labour said in the King’s Speech that it would go further with reform and…09 Jun 2025