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10 Dec 2025, 8:49 p.m. - House of Commons
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Jake Richards MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Rother Valley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript


Parliamentary Debates
Cammell Laird Workers’ Imprisonment: Public Inquiry
15 speeches (4,429 words)
Wednesday 10th December 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) This is about the Cabinet discussions that took place at the time, and Nicholas Ridley and so on. - Link to Speech

Planning and Infrastructure Bill
101 speeches (34,622 words)
Committee stage part one
Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) or the affordable homes programme.We did try an alternative approach—a market approach—under Nicholas Ridley - Link to Speech

Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)
118 speeches (23,223 words)
Committee stage: 10th sitting
Thursday 15th May 2025 - Public Bill Committees
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) I am a little older, so I remember another one: Nicholas Ridley. - Link to Speech

Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
38 speeches (23,676 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) The 1985 Act was brought into being by Nicholas Ridley, a man who had a high opinion of his own ability—I - Link to Speech

Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
114 speeches (37,893 words)
2nd reading
Monday 29th July 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) I could work something out myself given half an hour.”When Nicholas Ridley told Margaret Thatcher that - Link to Speech

Transport System: Failings
39 speeches (19,541 words)
Thursday 25th April 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) longer have such a thing.At the time of bus privatisation—I was a Member of the other place then—Nicholas Ridley - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Monday 9th June 2025
Written Evidence - Mr Jonathan Stanley Root
WSR0008 - Water sector regulation

Public Accounts Committee

Found: In June 1977, two years after Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Opposition, Nicholas Ridley

Thursday 13th February 2025
Written Evidence - Christ's Hospital
GAM0055 - Game On: Community and school sport

Game On: Community and school sport - Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: Inspired by a sermon by Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, the young King Edward VI instructed the Lord

Tuesday 10th December 2024
Oral Evidence - 2024-12-10 10:00:00+00:00

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee (Lords)

Found: My first ministerial job was in 1988 with Nicholas Ridley, and then again when I came back as Secretary

Tuesday 10th December 2024
Oral Evidence - 2024-12-10 10:00:00+00:00

Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee (Lords)

Found: My first ministerial job was in 1988 with Nicholas Ridley, and then again when I came back as Secretary



Bill Documents
Sep. 07 2023
Written evidence submitted by Richard Hermer KC (EAPBB31)
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill 2022-23
Written evidence

Found: also reviewed the debates on the passage of the Bill through the Commons (steered by the late Nicholas Ridley



Department Publications - Statistics
Tuesday 13th February 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: Housebuilding in London: London Plan Review – report of expert advisers
Document: London Plan review (PDF)

Found: five year housing land supply, introduced by the then Secretary of State for the Environment, Nicholas Ridley



Department Publications - News and Communications
Tuesday 19th December 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: Falling back in love with the future
Document: Falling back in love with the future (webpage)

Found: Those who were first characterised by the late Nicholas Ridley as NIMBYs – the not in my backyard objectors