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HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for raising those concerns about schools in the Forest of Dean and that school in particular. The state that schools are in after 14 years of Conservative…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025As my hon. Friend is aware, Bexleyheath and Crayford is a part of the country that I know well. It has huge potential for more homes and more investment. We have set a budget for…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025Alongside the investment at Casement Park, we have also made record investment, with a record settlement for the Northern Ireland Executive, in the announcements we have set out…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025For London, today we have increased the spending power of the police by 2.3% in real terms every year; we have record investment in the affordable homes programme, which includes…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The investment we are putting into Derby and Nottinghamshire is significant, with small modular reactors, investment in defence and investment in fusion, creating good jobs and…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for welcoming the changes to the Green Book, which will better enable the Government to invest, and will stop the situation whereby the Treasury used to…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025Stories like that are exactly why the Deputy Prime Minister and I have prioritised investment in affordable homes. Nobody should have to live in those conditions in the 21st…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025It is difficult to understand exactly what the Conservative critique of this spending review is. The shadow Chancellor says that we should spend less, but the hon. Gentleman has…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I know that there is great need for affordable homes in Gravesham. With today’s spending review, as well as the planning reforms we have introduced and continue to…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The changes we have made to the planning system and the changes we are making through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill provide the opportunity to build. Today, we have backed…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for the passion with which she speaks about schools, which is something I very much share. That is why we are rolling out breakfast clubs at primary schools…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I once spent a day at Thomas the Tank Engine world. I hope that the trains and the tram lines that we are going to be investing in will be a little less talkative and a bit more…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025It absolutely is.11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank the hon. Gentleman for speaking powerfully about his experience and the experience of his constituents. After the 14 years and the broken promises of the Conservative…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025The Prime Minister was in Ipswich yesterday with my hon. Friend to visit a local college. He came back from that visit even more determined to crack on and build Sizewell nuclear…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025This Labour Government are giving real-terms increases in spending to local authorities every year. Compare that with the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Administration from 2010 to…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for welcoming the reforms we have introduced at the Treasury—the reform to the fiscal rules to unlock money for investment, the reform of financial…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025This will be a scheme operated from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. We announced some of the neighbourhoods that will benefit from that investment…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025It sounds like it is a pretty good day to be an MP in Burton. We are pleased to be able to make those investments in the midlands rail hub and in nuclear technology. There will…11 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025I thank my hon. Friend for that question. It is good to see the Minister in his place to hear it, too. It is really important that, as we invest in the social and affordable…11 Jun 2025