Written Question
Thursday 25th April 2024
Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of the UK's constitutional arrangements on the strength of the Union.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
In line with the longstanding practice of successive administrations, Cabinet discussions are confidential, and details are not normally disclosed. But I will say that the United Kingdom is one of the world’s most successful political and economic unions. When we work together as one United Kingdom, we are safer, stronger and more prosperous.
Written Question
Wednesday 8th February 2023
Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
This information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Written Question
Friday 18th November 2022
Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Details of such payments are published in departmental annual reports and accounts, and ministerial salaries are published here.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"5. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Government’s levelling-up agenda on the supply of affordable housing. ..."Christine Jardine - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Will the Minister accept that the chaos we have seen in the economy, created by this Government, over the past couple of weeks has had an impact on the affordability of housing for everyone? It has put up interest rates on mortgages and put up rents in the private rented …..."Christine Jardine - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Apr 2022
Planning and Development: Women’s Safety
"The debate that I have secured this evening might seem at first like a discussion about planning, but actually it is so much more. Let me say first of all that I recognise that the Government have already taken steps to address the need for safety, particularly women’s safety, to …..."Christine Jardine - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Flooding is undoubtedly an important issue to be taken into account in the planning process, but there are other issues, one of which is the gender bias that exists in planning. I will be presenting a Bill tomorrow to attack that very thing. Are the Government considering as part of …..."Christine Jardine - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 19th July 2021
Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
What recent discussions he has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Scotland and (b) Scottish Government on the allocation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Answered by Luke Hall
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a core part of our Levelling Up agenda and I regularly speak to my ministerial colleagues about the fund. My officials regularly engage their counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss any updates, concerns or queries.
The UK Government will continue to engage the devolved administrations and local partners as we develop the fund's investment framework and in advance of its publication.
I am pleased to be working more directly with local partners and communities across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, who are best placed to understand the needs of their local areas and more closely aligned to the local economic geographies to deliver quickly on the ground.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Apr 2021
Post Office Court of Appeal Judgment
"I appreciate the Minister’s comments about the inquiry and compensation, but will he assure me that the Government will commit to seeing former sub-postmasters as individuals, and to treating each case with importance for all those who have faced more than a decade of accusations and had their life burdened …..."Christine Jardine - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and Individuals
"There is surely no more important debate at the moment than how we support businesses and individuals through the pandemic. Just last week, it was confirmed that the UK economy has suffered its worst slump in any year since we began recording gross domestic product after the second world war. …..."Christine Jardine - View Speech
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