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HANSARD Business of the HouseAcross Keighley and Ilkley, there are many fantastic independent businesses that rely on footfall for customers to come through their doors. However, after hiking parking charges…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillTo bring the hon. Member back to the compulsory purchase measures in part 5 of the Bill, which we are discussing today, many residents along the A1 corridor have been severely…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI rise to speak about new clause 127 and amendment 153, both of which are in my name. Compulsory purchase is a highly emotive and highly controversial subject. Indeed, much of…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech about choices, but this is also about fairness. The compulsory purchase powers contained in part 5 of the Bill disregard any hope…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThat is exactly why I am so frustrated by the intent of the Government’s Bill. It gives Natural England more compulsory purchase powers, more funds through environmental delivery…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillBut the Government are going way beyond that and giving more powers to local authorities and, indeed, Natural England. If the Minister has gone out and spoken to anyone in the…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThat is exactly why I urge the Government, as I have throughout the passage of the Bill—I know this point was also raised in Committee—to realise the huge level of…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillHere we have the Liberal Democrats setting out their position, and it is a good that they are doing so because I fundamentally believe that if a farmer owns land and the state…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe farming community faces so much uncertainty not only as a result of the Bill, but because of all the additional pressures, whether it is the family farm tax or the increases…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Winter Fuel PaymentToday’s U-turn is an astonishing victory against the Government, whose support has dried up after less than a year in office. When the Government announced their cruel cut to the…09 Jun 2025HANSARDGroceries Code AdjudicatorIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Allin-Khan. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) on securing…03 Jun 2025HANSARDGroceries Code AdjudicatorMy right hon. Friend makes a valid point. At the moment, the risk is all sitting on the shoulders of the growers and producers. That is unfair, because there is a certain…03 Jun 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. One issue not normally considered is the reinstatement provisions after a solar farm has been implemented. A vast quantity of our…15 May 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWest Yorkshire police recently announced, to much fanfare, that areas such as Keighley and Ilkley would receive extra officers as part of a new neighbourhood policing team…15 May 2025HANSARD Infected Blood Inquiry: Government ResponseI will be forever indebted to my constituent Clive Smith, who is also the president of the Haemophilia Society. He has been a long-standing advocate and a voice for those victims…14 May 2025HANSARDFlooding: Planning and Developer ResponsibilitiesThank you, Mrs Hobhouse.I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Norfolk (George Freeman) on securing a really important debate. There is no better champion on this issue…13 May 2025HANSARD Small AbattoirsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank the hon. Member for Glastonbury and Somerton (Sarah Dyke) for securing this incredibly important debate. As…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsWe have had huge amounts of tariffs put on the UK, and then a trade deal to reduce them; there have been positive impacts on some industries, and potentially negative impacts on…08 May 2025HANSARDFlooding: Protecting Vulnerable CommunitiesOn the 80th anniversary of VE Day, I thank those who fought for our and Europe’s freedom and, indeed, those who worked our land and kept our nation fed. Our peatlands store 26…08 May 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseBaby Jack was just 16 months old when, on Boxing day 2022, he passed away from sudden unexplained death in childhood, which was incredibly heartbreaking. It is something that…08 May 2025