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Written Question
Urban Areas: Housing
Monday 16th May 2022

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

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 increase housing in urban areas using local authority-approved building codes that pre-approve buildings.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

My Honourable Friend has been a strong advocate for delivering more housing in urban areas and protecting our precious green spaces.

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill includes new powers for “Street Votes”, allowing residents on a street to bring forward proposals to extend or redevelop their properties in line with their design preferences, and hold a vote on whether they should be given planning permission.

This measure will incentivise communities to consider the potential for development, particularly in the urban areas where new homes are most needed.

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 14th March 2022

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the letters from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare dated 4 January and 1 February 2022 relating to online Parish Council meetings.

Answered by Kemi Badenoch - Leader of HM Official Opposition

A response to the Hon Member will be issued shortly.

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 28th February 2022

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to answer the letters from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of 17 December and 18 January on LEP reviews.

Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)

A response has gone to the Hon Member today.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"13. What assessment he has made of the potential effect of provisions in the Planning (Street Plans) Bill to allow residents to vote on the design of new homes in their streets on levels of housing supply. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am delighted to hear it. Will the Secretary of State look not only at those ideas, but at the related “build up, not out” proposals in my soon-to-be-launched policy paper “Poverty Trapped”? Both enshrine local democratic consent and style codes as essential steps for new developments. Does he agree …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions

"I want to refer to the comments made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox), my parliamentary neighbour, on the level of tax because, at the end of the Chancellor’s speech, there was an extremely welcome departure, in a genuine tax cut, from the fears …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions

"I am indeed advocating that all income should be taxed equally. It is a Lawson-esque idea; the right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The reason why it is so essential, and why Nigel Lawson had this right, is that the whole point of it is that it creates work incentives …..."
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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 1st November 2021

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the letters from the hon. Member for Weston-Super-Mare dated 11 August 2021 and 22 September on behalf of a constituent on parking charges.

Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)

The response to this letter was sent on 29 October.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Levelling-up Bids: North Somerset

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered levelling up bids in North Somerset.

It is good to have you in charge of our process, Mr McCabe. It is also good to see my fellow Somerset MP and constituency neighbour, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Levelling-up Bids: North Somerset

"The Minister is being very helpful and is showing that his Department is already getting to grips with the details behind the bids, so I thank him for his remarks so far. Could he just make sure that in the five minutes or so that are left, he focuses on …..."
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