Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office
Thursday 23rd October 2025

(1 day, 21 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Thomas-Symonds Portrait Nick Thomas-Symonds
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I am certainly looking at the issue of the special category mechanism, as I undertook to do. If the hon. Lady writes to me I can look at the specific list, but I am also hoping, with Mr Speaker’s permission, to update the House on this and other infected blood issues very shortly.

Ben Maguire Portrait Ben Maguire (North Cornwall) (LD)
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Residents in a housing development in my constituency are facing a number of issues after yet another developer has gone bust. Parts of the shared communal land have reverted back to the ownership of the Duchy of Cornwall, rather than to the residents themselves, who have to purchase the land back and cover the duchy’s legal costs. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, quite rightly, has Cabinet oversight, but who does the Duchy of Cornwall answer to and what recourse do my constituents now have in this case?

Darren Jones Portrait Darren Jones
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If the hon. Member writes to me with his constituency case, I will make sure that the Duchy of Cornwall looks at it in due course.