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Written Question
Environment Protection: Recreation Spaces
Monday 10th July 2023

Asked by: Chris Clarkson (Conservative - Heywood and Middleton)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to protect and enhance green spaces.

Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch

The Levelling Up Parks Fund has made available £9 million for local authorities in areas which rate highly on the Index of Multiple Deprivation, to create or significantly refurbish green spaces.

The Fund also requires the planting and maintaining of trees and encourages projects to work towards Green Flag Award status. The local community should also be consulted during project design and delivery.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Death of Awaab Ishak and Rochdale Boroughwide Housing

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for securing this very important debate, and I agree that it is probably one of the more distressing debates that any of us has had to participate in. He has made an extremely important point: tenants repeatedly have to report issues to RBH, and sometimes …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 18 Nov 2022
Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill

"It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Tom Hunt)—they say that brevity is the mother of wisdom. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman); this is his second private Member’s Bill, and it is an excellent and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2022
Social Housing Standards

"When I think about this case I vacillate between profound sadness and white-hot anger. This is not an isolated incident. Just this week, I was sent photographs of a house in Middleton with its walls caked in black mould and rising damp. That is an RBH property, and my constituent …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

" What steps he is taking to modernise the planning system in England. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"There is a great deal of concern in my Heywood and Middleton constituency and across Greater Manchester about the amount of green belt approved for release by the Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, as part of his Greater Manchester spatial framework. What assurances can my right hon. Friend give me …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jun 2021
Planning Decisions: Local Involvement

"Like I think most Members, a substantial portion of my casework is on either planning or housing, so I am glad to participate in today’s debate. I would even say that I do not necessarily disagree with the thrust of it, although I ask Opposition Members whether they have actually …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jun 2021
Planning Decisions: Local Involvement

"I thank my hon. Friend for his clairvoyance, because I was about to say that the lived experience does not necessarily match the rhetoric, and nowhere is that clearer than in Andy Burnham’s love letter to developers, the Greater Manchester spatial framework. As Labour authorities were scrambling over one another …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Jan 2021
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021

"Having been born and raised in Germany, where people do not shy away from their past lest the lessons be forgotten, I thought I was reasonably well versed in this subject. Then, last January, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem. I would urge any Member here to visit …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Jan 2021
Council Tax: Government’s Proposed Increase

"Like a lot of people here, I found my route to Westminster via the town hall. I was quite surprised to listen to the oration by the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley), because I was a councillor in her constituency for eight years. I sat through …..."
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