Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Jan 2022
Holocaust Memorial Day
"I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for what he has said.
As to the circumstances I described, we are, alas, still waiting. Last March, a group of senior Members of Parliament and peers, including no fewer than three former distinguished Law Officers, decided it was time to …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Jan 2022
Building Safety
"My right hon. Friend will be aware that this whole issue has caused extraordinary misery, anxiety and upset, and I had the opportunity this morning to speak to Jim Illingworth of BrumLAG. He, my right hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) and our friend Jack Dromey have worked …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Apr 2021
Post Office Court of Appeal Judgment
"My hon. Friend is a very good Minister and the Government have, of course, inherited this problem, but, as a House, we have to recognise that this is a grotesque breach of the human rights and civil liberties of up to 555 litigants—our fellow citizens. It is right up there …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 29th January 2021
Asked by:
Andrew Mitchell (Conservative - Sutton Coldfield)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to tackle rough sleeping in the Birmingham City Council area.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
In 2020/21, we are providing over £700 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping across England.
Birmingham City Council have been allocated more than £2.5 million through rough sleeping programmes in 2020/21. This includes:
- Rough Sleeping Initiative funding to support the establishment or enhancement of coordinated local services for rough sleepers or those at risk of sleeping rough;
- Next Steps Accommodation funding to prevent those bought in during the COVID-19 pandemic returning to the streets and long term funding through the Rough Sleeper Accommodation Programme, from 2020/21 – 2023/24;
- Cold Weather Funding to bring forward COVID-secure accommodation this winter and to keep vulnerable people safe;
- Protect Programme funding, which provides targeted support to local authorities with higher numbers of rough sleepers to meet the specific challenges they faced;
- Drug and alcohol misuse funding for those with drug and alcohol support needs to get the help they need to rebuild their lives, and;
- Funding for Housing First is also providing accommodation for up to 130 individuals in the city by the end of June 2021.
Birmingham City Council have been closely supported by our MHCLG Rough Sleeping Initiative and homelessness advisers. These expert advisers are pro-actively working with local areas as they adapt to the new restrictions and will continue to support these authorities beyond COVID-19.
This Government is committed to ending rough sleeping and we have taken unprecedented steps to protect rough sleepers during the pandemic. This work has not stopped, and through Everyone In, by November we had supported around 33,000 people with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and over 23,000 already moved on into longer-term accommodation.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Jan 2021
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
"Three years ago, I stood with the wonderful Susan Pollack, the Auschwitz survivor, at the Kigali memorial site in Rwanda, the largest burial ground in the world. We were mourning the million who were slaughtered in a 90-day frenzy of killing and brutality in Rwanda. Most of those who took …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
CCRC Decision on 44 Post Office Prosecutions
"It is clearly not this very good Minister’s fault, but it is clear, is it not, that a monstrous injustice by the state has been visited upon these poor postmasters and postmistresses, leaving us all, I would hope, extremely uneasy. By refusing to allow the inquiry even to consider the …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jun 2020
Horizon: Sub-Postmaster Convictions
"My hon. Friend the Minister is quite right to emphasise the need for speed, but people have taken their own lives, and have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned. It does not get much more serious than that. This House is here to defend the liberties of our constituents. Will he …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 10th February 2020
Asked by:
Andrew Mitchell (Conservative - Sutton Coldfield)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to ensure that planning guidance issued by her Department takes into account the need to preserve biodiversity.
Answered by Esther McVey
The Government’s support for biodiversity is made clear in the National Planning Policy Framework and accompanying planning guidance. The Framework says that to protect and enhance biodiversity, planning policies and decisions should minimise impacts on and provide net gains for biodiversity, and it contains a number of policies in support of this. The accompanying planning guidance was updated on 21 July 2019 and provides advice on how development can achieve biodiversity net gains. The Environment Bill will take biodiversity net gain a stage further by making it a mandatory requirement for development.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 23 Jan 2020
Assisted Dying Law
"I congratulate the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) on what she said and the way in which she has framed the debate.
There is no doubt that opinion is moving. I myself have changed my mind completely since I arrived in this place 33 years ago. My wife …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 23 Jan 2020
Assisted Dying Law
"I thank my hon. Friend and I hope we will hear much more from her. She expresses the dilemma on both sides of the argument extremely well. For the first time in 33 years I have drawn a place in the private Members’ ballot, although somewhat low down, so I …..."Andrew Mitchell - View Speech
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