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Written Question
Planning
Monday 18th December 2023

Asked by: Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his planned timetable is for publishing a new National Planning Policy Framework.

Answered by Lee Rowley

We intend to publish updates to the existing NPPF later in 2023 after considering comments received from our December 2022 consultation.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

"Will my right hon. Friend go further for the sake of clarity, and make sure that there is, if not an equation, at least a clear mechanism by which local authorities can net off the contradictory elements—floodplain, green belt—so that they are not asked to build houses in inappropriate numbers …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

"Since 1996, 22,317 houses have been built in North Somerset compared with a target of 24,687, which shows that this is not a nimby district. However, as many colleagues will recognise, the overall figures hide enormous variability. During the years when the town of Portishead, a triumph of regeneration, was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

"I will not give way because so many colleagues want to take part.

The next issue is the green belt. The current framework has stood the test of time and represents a good balance between the values represented by green-belt policy and the need for some unavoidable development to meet …..."
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Written Question
Housing: Older People
Tuesday 15th March 2022

Asked by: Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent progress he has made on forming the cross-departmental taskforce on older people's housing.

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

As announced in the Levelling Up White Paper, a new taskforce on older people's housing will be launched shortly, looking at ways we can provide greater choice, quality and security of housing for older people. This work will be taken forward in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care.

Further details regarding the remit of the taskforce, as well as the timing and frequency of meetings will be confirmed in due course.

Written Question
Housing: Older People
Tuesday 15th March 2022

Asked by: Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the cross-department taskforce on older people's housing will be formed.

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

As announced in the Levelling Up White Paper, a new taskforce on older people's housing will be launched shortly, looking at ways we can provide greater choice, quality and security of housing for older people. This work will be taken forward in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care.

Further details regarding the remit of the taskforce, as well as the timing and frequency of meetings will be confirmed in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions

"In all my time in the House of Commons, I do not think I have heard a Labour response to the Budget that has left me, as this one does, not knowing what Labour would do, in the nightmare scenario of its coming into office. Like my hon. Friend the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 Jul 2021
Building Safety Bill

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 Jul 2021
Building Safety Bill

"Does my right hon. Friend accept that we have to get away from the term “cladding” as a generic issue and start to focus on genuine fire risk? There is a real danger of us creating unnecessary anxiety and cost where there is little or no increase in fire risk …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Levelling-up Bids: North Somerset

"I am here to support the case made by my hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (John Penrose). I am all too aware that my constituency does not qualify for money from the levelling-up fund and we have only a small chance of getting any money from the community renewal …..."
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