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10 Dec 2025, 8:49 p.m. - House of Commons
"at the time, and in particular Nicholas Ridley, etc. and as we saw in the Shrewsbury campaign, the "
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

Wednesday 24th May 2023
Written Evidence - Shelter
BPI0019 - Benefit levels in the UK

Benefit levels in the UK - Work and Pensions Committee

Found: level takes no account of the size of home a family needs to avoid severe 19 Contribution by Nicholas Ridley



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