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Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) promised to“make the planning system simpler for the public and small builders”,which also has not been - Speech Link
2: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) to get to or exceed the 300,000 figure, then not only will we need planning reform that incentivises - Speech Link
3: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) I liked the fact that he talked about reforming planning and building 300,000 houses per year; he sounded - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) introducing a new planning use class for short-term lets.On the suggestion by the noble Lord, Lord Adonis - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) we must not only protect our most important sites but create new habitats and ensure that planning policy - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) biodiversity strategy sets out how key sectors will deliver work to combat biodiversity loss, including in planning - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) We have been talking to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities about that. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Solar Energy and Food Security: Land Use - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) consideration in determining applications under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and is broadly - Speech Link


Written Statements
Drug and Alcohol Treatment - Tue 14 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) Improving and expanding treatment and recovery services is central to the drug strategy mission, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) announced an investment of £30 million to acquire land even further in advance to mitigate the risk of planning - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We have planning permission for HMP Gartree. - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We are rolling out the housing loss prevention advice service—that is another £10 million going in. - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) There are no providers of housing legal aid in the borough of Bedford, and the number of people living - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Home Insulation - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) local authorities the power and resources they need to upgrade cold and draughty homes in their areas - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) need to target the poorest households, which is precisely what we do under schemes such as the social housing - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) If you have the available outside space, if it does not disturb your neighbours too much, and if planning - Speech Link
4: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) Likewise, is he confident that they are being met where planning permission provides for refit? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agriculture - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) up and down the country. - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) The availability and affordability of straw and other forms of animal feed later in the year and next - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Farming businesses operate on a multi-year planning cycle, so they have a desire for predictability and - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) For example, there will be grant schemes to improve on slurry infrastructure, on calf housing and on - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Palestinians: Visa Scheme - Mon 13 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Mark Logan (Con - Bolton North East) Members for Lancaster and Fleetwood and for Poplar and Limehouse (Apsana Begum). - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) resident rights are often quick to expire, along with any access to education for kids or to healthcare or housing - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Streatham) of damage to critical infrastructure has been done, and 74% of that is housing. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) unable to travel safely to a visa application centre, so I am just wondering when the Government are planning - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Care Leavers: Universal Credit - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) While we are not currently planning on changing the rate, we understand the challenges that care leavers - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) £250 million across this spending review to support care leavers on a whole range of issues, including housing - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Local authority children’s and housing services should and do work together to ensure a range of suitable - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I have already mentioned housing. There is an exemption from the shared accommodation rate—the SAR. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Miners and Mining Communities - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) a former Minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. - Speech Link
2: Conor McGinn (Ind - St Helens North) Bold, creating new housing and community facilities to help those places thrive. - Speech Link
3: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) housing and health services, just to enable others to become wealthy—some obscenely so.Without doubt - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) , condemned housing, unemployment, silicosis, and the terrible affliction of tuberculosis. - Speech Link