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

"Would a community right of appeal not be a good addition to what my right hon. Friend is setting out in terms of other types of rights?..."
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Written Question
Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade
Friday 15th January 2021

Asked by: Marcus Fysh (Conservative - Yeovil)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming funding for local government to help physical retail and hospitality businesses and high streets.

Answered by Luke Hall

The Chancellor has announced a review of business rates. The Government is currently considering responses to the review’s call for evidence and has committed to publish a response in Spring 2021. Businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors have benefitted from rates reliefs worth approximately £10 billion in the current financial year.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
CCRC Decision on 44 Post Office Prosecutions

"Sub-postmasters often operate in very small communities where everybody knows each other. This has been an incredibly painful experience for them, their families and their communities. I welcome the establishment of the inquiry, but will the Minister please assure us that it will not be a whitewash? Many sub-postmasters in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Social care needs both urgent funding and certainty from year to year, so that councils can rely upon funding packages such as those outlined by the Secretary of State. What can he do to assure us that rural councils will be properly accounted for in any business rates review?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Mar 2019
Stronger Towns Fund

"Somerset has some of the most deprived towns in the south-west, and they really need strengthening, so residents will be a little confused by the numbers in today’s announcement. I welcome the idea that the shared prosperity fund will be calculated differently, but given that productivity is similar in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"24. Brownfield sites can bring forward supply, which is good for everybody, but what can the Minister do in particular for students to make the supply of their accommodation more easily available and fairer for renters?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Nov 2018
Planning: South Somerset

"It is a great pleasure to speak this evening on the planning situation in South Somerset, where my constituency lies. I declare an interest, in that my family own a house in the district. I will talk about a planning saga a little less than a mile away that has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Nov 2018
Planning: South Somerset

"I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention; it would not be an Adjournment debate without a strong contribution from Northern Ireland. I agree that focusing on and intensifying development in town centres is one of the answers both to finding more housing and to getting more people living in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Nov 2018
Planning: South Somerset

"I thank my hon. Friend. He is certainly right that Yeovil has its challenges. Part of the problem has been sprawling development, and not particularly good development, that has been approved over the decades that I am talking about. We need to get a virtuous circle working in the other …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 May 2018
Somerset County Council: Unitary Status

"No...."
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