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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)I have nothing further to add. Question put and agreed to. Clause 89 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 90 Temporary possession of land in connection with…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)No, you do not need to.20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)I thank the Minister for that detailed assessment of the clause. Lord knows how long his speech would have been if we had referred to the amendments that my hon. Friend the Member…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)Again, we welcome the Minister taking a pragmatic approach to streamlining the process. That would be useful to some elements of CPOs, with minor modifications. Although the…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)Again, we do not see the clause as particularly controversial, but we would like to ask some questions. Can I put on record, first, that I wish the Minister well with his jury…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will take the tactic of discussing each clause relating to CPOs at a time, if that is all right with the Minister. I know he had to give an overview of clauses 83 to 92, but we…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)You may rule me out of order, Ms Jardine—I entirely expect that you might—but I want to follow up on the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne on health services.…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)I welcome the Minister’s commitment to transport infrastructure. We have had disagreements on other parts of the Bill that we have discussed in previous sittings, and no doubt we…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. It is good to see the Minister and all members of the Committee here again; I have déjà vu, but we are still happy,…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)I do not know whether this is helpful clarification procedurally, but on this group, I would like to speak only to new clause 52 under the name of the official Opposition. We are…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)I commend the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington on tabling the new clause. It is very similar to new clause 34, which is in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)Further to that point of order, Ms Jardine—I do not wish to waste any more of the Committee’s time—for my part, I am content for the Committee to sit until 5 pm to ensure that…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am a pragmatist, so if the Minister says that he will make announcements in due course to strengthen what he already has a track record of doing, which is what the new clause…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)I agree with the hon. Lady that the Government should be focusing on social housing. However, to be fair to them, they have announced a huge amount of money for it, as we…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will heed your advice, Ms Jardine, and bring this back to new clause 50. The hon. Member for North Herefordshire said there should be more social homes, but that comes under the…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Gentleman does not have a quote, but his intervention is still misguided. He fails to realise that under the past 14 years of the Conservative Government, 800,000 people…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)If he has a quote, then I am not giving way. I say to the hon. Member for Glasgow East that the local housing plans that we are proposing must also include social housing. Local…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)Not yet. Those have been reversed by a lot of the things that this Government have done. For the first time, the sector does not have any incentivisation.20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend raises a good point; in fact, we have tabled some amendments on targets regarding small and medium-sized enterprises. He is right that we must ensure that…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. Who can say the Conservative party is divided when we have a bromance like this? My hon. Friend and I agree with each other all the time. He…20 May 2025