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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) What steps he is taking to protect public green spaces. - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) Through the levelling up parks fund, taxpayers are providing more than £9 million to create new green - Speech Link
3: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) beautiful green spaces? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Clause 21 and schedule 7 deal with existing ground rents and how we will treat those. - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) increase to 50%, but they are very creative when they design these buildings, with the underground car parks - Speech Link
3: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) They have replaced one income stream—leasehold—by creating another asset in the open green spaces. - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Income and expenditure will tell you what has come in and what has gone out. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) They contain public facilities, public open space, play parks and community centres. - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) If we take another situation—I must say that this was quite a shock for me and I was a bit green in those - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) Because of that, it is not putting any money into the adoption of public open spaces. - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) Professor Leunig: The default rate chooses 3.5% because that is the rate in the Green Book. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Our detention capacity—just a few thousand spaces—will be full. - Speech Link
2: Simon Fell (Con - Barrow and Furness) and work here and set up their families here. - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Brokenshire, whose work with the French authorities to increase security at the ferry terminals, lorry parks - Speech Link
4: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) The council might introduce a public spaces protection order, but would probably not enforce it. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) It argues that black is white and white is black; that the grass is blue and the sky is green. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Town Centre Safety - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) said. - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) seizure of stolen items that are GPs tracked; and to see greater flexibility around public spaces protection - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) , as though it only affects individual streets or individual parks, reporting a broken light or a dark - Speech Link
4: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) change when the rise of the shopping centre changed the traditional long high street, when the retail parks - Speech Link
5: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) We have started to see great new uses coming into our high streets to fill some of the empty spaces, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Water Companies: Executive Bonuses - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) It is dying in front of our eyes because of blue-green algal bloom related to agricultural run-off and - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) February 2020, the streets and parks of Isleworth and the pristine Duke of Northumberland’s river was - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) , building works, flooding and sewage through their streets and parks. - Speech Link
4: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) There were pools and little tributaries of water that smelled pungently, and were a lurid neon green - Speech Link
5: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) This is a green and pleasant land, but in the last seven years alone over 1,200 years’ worth of raw sewage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Substitution of Cut-off Date Relating to Rights of Way) (England) Regulations 2023 - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rosser (Lab - Life peer) Instead, it will deny people routes that they could have used to access green and blue spaces close to - Speech Link
2: None It is rather like locking the gates to public parks in towns and cities permanently. - Speech Link
3: None able to escape their bubble to walk upon footpaths in these green spaces. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) We are delivering a £9 million levelling up parks fund to improve green space in more than 100 disadvantaged - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) What concerns me is that three weeks earlier, on 21 October, a planned demonstration in Golders Green - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) Within London’s green belt alone there are enough non-green sites surrounding train stations for more - Speech Link
3: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) A green belt policy that protects disused car parks while green spaces are handed over to developers - Speech Link
4: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) In one area, covering Stockland Green and Kingstanding, the West Midlands Ambulance Service was called - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Community diagnostic centres will bring care closer to home, on high streets, in supermarket car parks - Speech Link
2: Steve Tuckwell (Con - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) protecting our green spaces for future generations. - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) public opinion on green energy. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funding for Parks - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) in our communities from parks and green spaces. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) and green spaces for all our communities. - Speech Link