Devolution (Implications for England) Debate

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Bill Esterson

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Devolution (Implications for England)

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Tuesday 16th December 2014

(9 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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A great many, because these options could be applied to parts and clauses of Bills as well as to Bills as a whole. They could therefore have affected a large proportion of the Bills that have been before the House in this Parliament.

Bill Esterson Portrait Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) (Lab)
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The Leader of the House mentioned planning. Many of my constituents believe that we have a top-down approach to planning through the national planning policy framework, which favours developers over local people. If he is serious about localism and devolution, will he support changes to the planning system that consider local people and are not just a developers charter? I suggest that he starts by looking at the excellent recommendations in the Communities and Local Government Committee report on the subject published today.

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