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HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend has already secured, as he says, the town deal for Ashfield, and the good news over the Christmas period is that it will also benefit from the high streets fund. We…11 Jan 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend raises an important point. Local councils have done a fantastic job, but they have limited capacity and in many cases they are close to the limit of that…11 Jan 2021HANSARDHigh Street RegenerationThe Government’s priority throughout the pandemic has been to protect lives and livelihoods, with substantial support flowing to high street businesses through business grants,…11 Jan 2021HANSARDHigh Street RegenerationThe Chancellor announced earlier in the year an unprecedented business rates holiday, which is benefiting thousands of businesses the length and breadth of the country, and he…11 Jan 2021HANSARDHouse BuildingThe Government care deeply about building more homes and delivered more than 243,000 last year, the highest level for more than 30 years. We have gone to great lengths to keep the…11 Jan 2021HANSARDHouse BuildingLike my right hon. Friend, I want to see more homes of all kinds built in all parts of the country, and I want to deliver as many social and affordable homes as we possibly can. I…11 Jan 2021HANSARDHouse BuildingI congratulate my hon. Friend on the work he has done in this area, along with a number of his colleagues representing London constituencies. I have corresponded with the Mayor of…11 Jan 2021HANSARDHouse BuildingLet us remember that the last Labour Government left house building in this country at its lowest ever level in peacetime—the lowest since the 1920s. The statistics that we…11 Jan 2021HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementAs I said in response to the shadow Minister’s remarks, the Government have seen a real-terms decrease in council tax compared with the position when we came to power in 2010. It…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will bring forward proposals in due course. We will meet our manifesto commitment to introduce the long-term…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementIt would not be right for me to provide in public the self-reported estimate of costs supplied to us by Bedford Borough Council because that was done in confidence. None the less,…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementAs I said in answer to the hon. Member for Bedford (Mohammad Yasin), it would not be right for me to say publicly how much a local council has self-reported as having spent on…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI will happily look into the issue that the hon. Gentleman raises, but £1 million is not a great deal of money in the context of the £39.8 million that the Government have…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI will happily write to my hon. Friend with the full details with respect to Blaby District Council. Across the country, we have announced today that we will be doing a further…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI join my hon. Friend in praising her local council, and in particular the excellent local council leader she is lucky to have, Elizabeth Campbell, whom it has been my pleasure to…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI think the hon. Lady’s question is better directed to the Minister with responsibility for the fire service, who laid a written ministerial statement earlier today specifically…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI look forward to receiving the proposals for my hon. Friend’s towns fund bid. We will be making further announcements on that early next year, and nothing would give me greater…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementThe question that the hon. Lady asks is primarily for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, but what I would say, building on my remarks of a few…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI would be happy to meet my hon. Friend and the leader of his local council, as would, I am sure, the Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI forgot to say in response to the shadow Minister that of course the first and most celebrated customer of Robin Hood Energy in Nottingham was the right hon. Gentleman, the…17 Dec 2020