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HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. The Government’s narrative is that food security is national security, but those are just warm words because they are not followed up at…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025Okay, thank you, Mr Twigg. As the Committee debates this delegated legislation, I would like to take us back to why we are where we are, in the sense of being in year 5 of a…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025It comes back to both points that have been made, and perhaps the Minister will pick them up in his response. There is no absolute clarity about the deadlines or timelines for new…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025Further to that point of order, Mr Twigg. I seek clarity on whether I can move a closure motion. I am seeking your guidance on that.26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025That is absolutely the point: it causes huge concern to many farming businesses because they are not able to forecast what financial investment will go into the business, whether…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025The reality is that we cannot, because of the Government’s announcement of dramatic reductions to the delinked payments that many farming businesses relied on. The explanatory…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Construction Standards: New Build HomesWill the hon. Lady give way?25 Mar 2025HANSARD Construction Standards: New Build HomesI feel for the hon. Member’s constituents. In Silsden, in my constituency of Keighley and Ilkley, Harron Homes carried out a development of 50 plus properties where my…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Construction Standards: New Build HomesI absolutely agree, and that point has been made by the hon. Members for Sherwood Forest and for Ashfield (Lee Anderson): once someone has purchased a property or is tied into a…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Construction Standards: New Build HomesThe hon. Lady raises two points. I will take the second point on the director’s responsibility first. I absolutely agree that it should not be possible for a housing developer to…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Construction Standards: New Build HomesI thank the hon. Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh) for securing this important debate. As I said in my earlier intervention, it seems that we have both experienced the…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Construction Standards: New Build HomesI would politely push back on that. My understanding is that local authorities do have the powers available to them throughout the planning process to challenge the planning…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI absolutely agree. It is why the Government should be honest with the public that, far from strengthening environmental protections, the Bill creates a direct avenue for…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillLet me get to the point—I know time is short, Madam Deputy Speaker. This Government’s approach in the Bill will not deliver planning done at speed, and it will not give the…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThere are so many points to address in the Bill, but I will keep my remarks to just a few. I have grave concerns that the Government’s agreeable aim of freeing up our planning…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is not fair at all for the state, be it national Government or our local authorities, to step in and not pay a landowner the market value they…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes my right hon. Friend not realise that, in addition to placemaking, this is about making sure that infrastructure is at the heart of any new development, so that those who…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe Minister gets to the nub of the issue in that the nutrient neutrality issue caused an absolute stagnation in housing development. Indeed, the Government want to give Natural…24 Mar 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property ReliefsBack in November, the farming Minister unbelievably said from the Government Dispatch Box that it was striking how many people were coming up to him at farming events and saying,…20 Mar 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseFollowing Santander’s disappointing decision to turn its back on Ilkley and close the bank branch there, Link has recommended that our town gets a full banking hub, which I have…20 Mar 2025