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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"This Budget has delivered a tax cut for 32 million people. Can the hon. Gentleman clarify Labour’s position, because the shadow Chancellor says that he supports that but the Leader of the Opposition says he does not? What is Labour’s policy?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"I am very pleased to be called to speak in this important debate.

I welcome the Budget very much, especially the cut in business rates, which will have a hugely positive impact on many businesses in my constituency. One such business in Aldershot is the butcher Alf Turner, a long-standing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. The wholesale economic devastation that would be the consequence of Labour’s nationalisation plan—I do not know whether it has a plan to nationalise sausage production, but I hope not—would be clear. We have to make the case for the free …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"I am very grateful for that intervention. Absolutely—it puts those two sets of values into stark and very worrying contrast.

The free market is not an ideology but an inevitable human condition, which Conservative Members rightly espouse. We must call out at every turn the Marxist ideology of Opposition Front …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Mar 2018
Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill [Lords]

"I am very pleased that the Bill is being introduced, but will my hon. Friend give us a little more detail about how information about the changes will be spread? My constituency is lucky to benefit from the work of the North East Hampshire Domestic Abuse Forum, led by the …..."
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Written Question
Recreation Spaces
Wednesday 1st November 2017

Asked by: Leo Docherty (Conservative - Aldershot)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to mitigate the potential effects of local planning authorities implementing the Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space policy in urban boroughs where the only green space available is already in use for leisure facilities.

Answered by Lord Sharma

Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANGS) is provided and managed to mitigate harmful effects of new housing developments on European sites protected under the Habitats Regulations 2010. SANGS provides recreational space for local residents, diverting them away from protected sites.

Where there is limited green space available, Natural England positively encourage the use of existing leisure facilities if they are seen as meeting the requirements to provide Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace.