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HANSARD Planning (Enforcement) BillI congratulate the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Dr Spencer) on his success in the private Member’s Bill ballot and on choosing planning enforcement as his topic. I…19 Nov 2021HANSARD Planning (Enforcement) BillI appreciate the pressure that the hon. Member faces in her constituency. My friend the hon. Member for North Devon expressed concerns about seaside resort cities and my hon.…19 Nov 2021HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillI have a lot of sympathy for the last comments by the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine), and I thank my right hon. Friend and neighbour the Member for Hayes and…16 Nov 2021HANSARDRoad Traffic Offences: Fatal CollisionsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship in this important debate, Mr Rosindell. I thank the Petitions Committee, and I particularly thank my hon. Friend the Member for…15 Nov 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI rise to oppose the Government motion to disagree with Lords amendment 45B on sewage discharges. We need higher fines for polluters and annual parliamentary scrutiny and to…08 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThis Budget comes on the back of a lost decade for many of my constituents—a decade of lost investment, a decade of lost opportunity and a long decade of crippling cuts to…01 Nov 2021HANSARDMenopause (Support and Services) BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing this Bill, on her passion and on raising it as an issue not just of medical training, but of realisation and understanding for…29 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree—from what he was saying, I think he does—that the Government must address this iniquity in shared ownership, where shared owners own only a proportion of…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)First, it will acknowledge, in property law, that there is an impact on people of the lack of appropriate action by the Government. Secondly, when the Government actually accept…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)If we were to push the new clause to a vote and it was accepted, the details of that are in there. This is not unique in legislation. It can be done and it can be enacted if the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend confirms the power of this issue. Finally, I will address the Minister’s point about the Building Safety Regulator. To be honest, the point of the regulator is not…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The hon. Lady makes a useful suggestion. I feel conflicted when somebody tells me excitedly that they are moving, or that they have just bought, because what do I say? Do I say…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Miller. New clause 15, which stands in my name and those of my hon.…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend gives yet another illustration of the stress and mental health impact of this crisis. On the subject of people almost frightened to go to sleep at night, people…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)With respect to the Minister, the point that this amendment makes is to ensure that the polluter pays. The grant from the Government appears to be all taxpayers’ money and, from…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for his considered response to new clause 15. He said that the review our amendment seeks provides no practical use to leaseholders. I would suggest that…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I hear the Minister’s point. A review being incorporated into legislation would have a little bit more weight, particularly with a response being drafted by the Government, rather…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Why is something along the lines that the hon. Member for St Albans proposes not appropriate here but appropriate for the Motor Insurers Bureau? What else is the Minister doing to…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is giving an excellent description of the current state of much social rent housing. That is partly because the landlords—councils and housing associations—have not…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Dowd. The new clause seeks an assessment of the mental health…26 Oct 2021