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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Mar 2022
High-rise Buildings: Remediation

"It is a pleasure to contribute to the debate with you overseeing it, Mrs Miller, and I thank the hon. Member for Ipswich (Tom Hunt) for securing it. I join him in paying tribute to the work done by his colleague, the hon. Member for Stevenage (Stephen McPartland), throughout this …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Levelling Up

"Since 2010, Conservative Governments have cut £2.1 billion in funds to Sheffield City Council. Our annual grant is £288 million lower in real terms. Today, the Secretary of State announced £13 million and described it as transformational. If that is transformational, how would he describe the money we have lost? …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I certainly endorse the comments by the Secretary of State in relation to Holocaust Memorial Day.

The latest figures for Sheffield from February 2020 to April 2021 show a 46% increase in the number of private renters claiming housing benefit, because wages are simply not keeping up with rising rents. …..."
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Written Question
Private Rented Housing: Security
Monday 24th January 2022

Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent steps he has taken to strengthen renter security and improve protection for private renters.

Answered by Eddie Hughes

Throughout the pandemic we have taken unprecedented action to help keep renters in their homes through banning bailiff evictions, extending notice periods and financial support.

We are currently preparing proposals to provide a fairer deal for renters which we will publish in a new White Paper this year.

These include ending Section 21 evictions, driving up the quality of private rented homes and supporting councils to tackle poor practice.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Jan 2022
Building Safety Bill

"I am pleased to have the opportunity at this point, before the Bill progresses to the other place, to speak about some of the issues that will need to be addressed in the amendments that have been promised by the Secretary of State on protection for leaseholders—issues about which, today …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Jan 2022
Building Safety

"In opening his remarks, the Secretary of State acknowledged that the problem is not simply developers’ negligence but a failure of regulation, for which the Government are responsible. Leaseholders will fear that today’s announcement will have the effect of kicking a solution further down the road, causing delays for those …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 Jul 2021
Building Safety Bill

"The debate on this Bill is framed by the Prime Minister’s promise that

“no leaseholder should have to pay for the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects that they did not cause and are no fault of their own.”—[Official Report, 3 February 2021; Vol. 688, c. 945.]

…..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Jun 2021
Building Safety

"I thank my fellow Sheffield MP, my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), the Chair of the Select Committee, for the excellent way in which he comprehensively framed the issues about building safety that we need to consider. I also thank all members of the Committee …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Apr 2021
Fire Safety Bill

"We have heard a lot recently about the Prime Minister’s honesty and integrity. It is important to our democracy that people can trust the word of their leaders, but this debate highlights that issue yet again. As I reminded the House yesterday, on 3 February the Prime Minister told us …..."
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