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Oral Answers to Questions

Gagan Mohindra Excerpts
Thursday 10th July 2025

(1 day, 15 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ellie Reeves Portrait Ellie Reeves
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Our plan for growth is central to this mission-driven Government. Our investment in housing—building 1.5 million homes—will add £7 billion to the economy by the end of the Parliament. We are getting building, with spades in the ground on our rail and road projects, and getting on where the Tories failed this country for 14 years.

Gagan Mohindra Portrait Mr Gagan Mohindra (South West Hertfordshire) (Con)
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7. What progress he has made on publishing a tracking dashboard for the plan for change metrics.

Joe Robertson Portrait Joe Robertson (Isle of Wight East) (Con)
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14. What progress he has made on publishing a tracking dashboard for the plan for change metrics.

Pat McFadden Portrait The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Pat McFadden)
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Our plan for change is already delivering for the British people, as the Minister without Portfolio, my right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham West and East Dulwich (Ellie Reeves), has just said: wages up more in the first 10 months of our Government than in 10 years under the previous Government; a new nuclear age with £14 billion committed to building Sizewell C as a critical part of our clean energy transition; and NHS waiting lists down by more than 200,000 for the first time in years. What a contrast to the record of the Conservatives.

Gagan Mohindra Portrait Mr Mohindra
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Will the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster reassure the House that once he has actually started publishing the tracking dashboard for the plan for change, the six milestones will not go the same way as the three foundations, the six first steps for change, the five missions and the seven pillars of growth, and that it will not be abandoned and replaced when the Government realise they are missing their targets?

Pat McFadden Portrait Pat McFadden
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If the hon. Gentleman wants more facts about delivery, let me help him out right now. Last week we launched the biggest social and affordable housing programme in a generation, meeting a need that has been unmet for years in this country; we have extended free school meals to half a million more children; and this year, we will be putting 3,000 more neighbourhood police back on the beat. I am very happy to give the hon. Gentleman all the figures he wants.