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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Jun 2022
Sharing Economy: Short-term Letting

"Like many other aspects of our online lives, this started as a good idea: take a list of people who want short-term accommodation and use the internet to match it with a list of people who can provide it. Unfortunately, what we see today has become a grotesque distortion of …..."
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Written Question
Architecture
Tuesday 17th May 2022

Asked by: Tommy Sheppard (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh East)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring all those who are permitted to design buildings to be a regulated architect.

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

On 16 August 2021 my Department launched the Review of Architects Regulation with a Call for Evidence. This Review considered the current form of regulation for architects and the architectural sector in the UK and sought views on a range of topics including forms of regulation, access to the architectural profession, sustainability and innovation. The Call for Evidence included a section on 'Functions of an Architect,' which sought views on protected functions and a workshop on this matter, led by my officials, was undertaken on February 2022. The responses to the Review are currently being considered.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Levelling Up

"This is somewhat underwhelming, is it not? Not so much a dead cat as a damp squib. This might have been an opportunity to bring forward proposals for the modernisation of government in these islands, to devolve further powers and competence to the national Administrations, and to do something about …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Jun 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" The Secretary of State’s answers to the hon. Members for Croydon Central (Sarah Jones) and for Blaydon (Liz Twist) are entirely unsatisfactory. He accepts that he acted unlawfully in overruling a local authority to grant planning permission to a wealthy Tory donor, helping him to avoid £40 million in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Dec 2018
Deaths of Homeless People

"My question is about violent assaults on rough sleepers. I am sure that most Members—indeed, most right-minded people—have been horrified and felt revulsion at the recent attacks on people who are already in an extremely weak and vulnerable position and, in particular, at the fact that some of the perpetrators …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 17 Oct 2018
Local Government Reform: Greater London

"Thank you, Mr Hosie. I have debated matters of English local government in this room on several occasions, and I remark now, as I remarked then, that I quite often feel as though I have gatecrashed someone else’s party. On this occasion, I feel as though people have got the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 17 Oct 2018
Local Government Reform: Greater London

"The Minister’s intervention was perhaps tangential, but I do not mind replying to it. Of course, I cannot speak on behalf of the Scottish Government, but from what I observe, over the last 11 years they have driven the idea of putting power in the hands of local communities, through …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What steps he is taking to provide people who have recently been granted asylum with support for housing and community integration. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Government’s consultation report, “Integrated Communities”, said that the Government will

“work with civil society and others to increase the integration support available to those recognised as refugees after arrival in the UK.”

What specific measures are being taken to ensure that newly recognised refugees get the same support as …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2018
Grenfell Tower

"The east end of Edinburgh is a very long way away from North Kensington, but in this debate today I want to place on record, on behalf of the people whom I represent, our solidarity with the victims of Grenfell and our support for their campaign to get the answers …..."
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