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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I can buy one for the hon. Gentleman tomorrow—coffees for everyone. I rise to speak to amendment 125, in the name of the shadow agriculture and fisheries Minister, my hon. Friend…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)Okay, I just wanted to double check. The Opposition have tabled amendments 73 and 74 to limit increases and decreases in the allocation of housing targets when being assessed by…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)On a point of process, Dr Huq, I wish to move amendments 73 and 74. Do I speak to them now and move them formally?14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)On a point of order, Dr Huq. I am not questioning the Clerk, who has been fantastic, or you as Chair, but I simply do not understand. It may be that I am being thick and stupid.…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)I would like to press the amendment to a vote.14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)That does not mean to say that once they are reviewed again after 20 years, those sites might not be allocated, but that is the choice of the local authority and the local people…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)As always, I appreciate the Minister’s very detailed response. However, we tabled these amendments to set a precedent. We welcome the Minister’s clear words about how there is an…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)I accept what the Minister says; there is a recognition across Government, demonstrated by some of the actions they have taken, that they have a brownfield-first approach. I…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I cannot tell you how delighted I am to be here for the second day in a row, with a third day tomorrow. This simple…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)The hon. Lady is right that I have not followed the minutiae of her career, but I know from her comments in the Chamber and this Committee that she has an expertise that we should…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)Let me first put on the record how much I appreciate your giving us that break, Mrs Hobhouse. I managed to buy the Minister a double espresso—I hope his officials have noted that…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)It is getting late, and I have been thinking about chalk streams all day. I will speak briefly to amendment 148, which is in the name of the shadow Environment Secretary, my right…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I apologise, Mrs Hobhouse, for the length of my speech on the previous clause; this one will not be as long. I will take your steer and cut my remarks to a more suitable length. […14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I apologise to the Minister and to you, Mrs Hobhouse, because I did not register that amendment 148 was in this group—that is my fault.14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)After I was so kind to the hon. Lady! Actually, we agree on this issue, and it is not my amendment; it was tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner,…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister and I know he is doing his best in this regard. I am challenging not to be obtuse or difficult, but because, as I have said, there is clear concern…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister can make that face, but that is true. Nowhere does it say that the authority has to look at the representations, give any feedback on them or do anything about them.…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I cannot yet tell you that, Mrs Hobhouse, because I want first to respond to what the Minister has said, and then hear his response in an intervention I will invite him to make.…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)—when I have posed this question. We are seriously concerned about this element of the Bill. The Minister said in Committee yesterday that they have the numbers. We accept that,…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I apologise; I thought the Minister had finished.14 May 2025