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HANSARDBuilding Safety Remediation: LeaseholdersI beg to move, That this House has considered the financial effects of building safety remediation on leaseholders. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer.…22 Jun 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Remediation: LeaseholdersThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I will be coming on to the issues in relation to insurance later in my remarks. May I take this opportunity to say how refreshing and…22 Jun 2022HANSARDAntisocial Behaviour and Organised CrimeCrooks, fraudsters and those with links to organised crime are exploiting loopholes in the law to access taxpayers’ cash in the exempt supported housing sector. The Minister for…28 Feb 2022HANSARDAntisocial Behaviour and Organised Crime10. What assessment her Department has made of the relationship between antisocial behaviour and organised crime.28 Feb 2022HANSARD Non-commissioned Exempt AccommodationThe Minister is well aware that, if councils make a decision not to provide housing benefit and they are challenged in a court of law, they will lose such cases because the law…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Non-commissioned Exempt AccommodationI agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend that we need a system-wide approach. Local authorities need the power to reject applications for exempt accommodation on the grounds of…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Non-commissioned Exempt AccommodationI am pleased to contribute to such an important debate. The Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the hon. Member for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes),…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Non-commissioned Exempt AccommodationI thank the hon. Member for that intervention. I accept that it is meant to be in the spirit of being helpful and adding to the debate, but the idea that criminal enterprises…23 Feb 2022HANSARDSupported Exempt AccommodationMy right hon. Friend is exactly right. I will come to his point about the connection with organised crime, which is becoming a real problem. He is right that the distortion in the…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSupported Exempt AccommodationWould the Minister agree that one of the fastest ways to get action in this area is to destroy the business model of the rogue operators? That will not impact on good operators…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSupported Exempt AccommodationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The example he describes is something I see too often in my own advice surgeries. People really are in despair. This situation is attacking the…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSupported Exempt AccommodationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. She has raised those horror cases in her constituency at regular intervals, directly with the Department and in this House. Those cases of…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSupported Exempt AccommodationMy hon. Friend has been doing huge amounts of work on this issue in her constituency. Many of my Birmingham colleagues are in this Chamber today. This is a big problem in our…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSupported Exempt AccommodationI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and her work in this area. I know of the shocking case in her constituency. It really speaks to the problems caused by providers in…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSupported Exempt AccommodationI beg to move, That this House has considered regulation of supported exempt accommodation. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Fovargue. I am pleased to have…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSpeaker’s StatementJack and I were both elected in the 2010 general election, and he was my constituency neighbour, but because he was selected relatively late to be our candidate in Birmingham,…02 Feb 2022HANSARDInsurance Industry RegulationInsurance companies are exploiting the cladding scandal by charging leaseholders extortionate, punitive and unethical prices for their buildings insurance. The Treasury and the…01 Feb 2022HANSARDInsurance Industry Regulation6. What recent discussions he has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the regulation of the insurance industry.01 Feb 2022HANSARD Building Safety BillI shall speak to Opposition new clause 3 and to the amendments that, although they will not be pressed to a vote this evening, would protect leaseholders from the costs of not…19 Jan 2022HANSARDGlobal Gas PricesNothing that the Minister has said today will provide immediate relief to enough of the people who are struggling throughout the country. I have had constituents tell me that they…16 Nov 2021