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Westminster Hall
Building Safety Regulator - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Chris Curtis (Lab - Milton Keynes North) as for the constructive way they have worked to ensure that we can get safer buildings across the housing - Speech Link
2: Joe Powell (Lab - Kensington and Bayswater) The housing journalist Pete Apps wrote today of a housing association-owned block that has been waiting - Speech Link
3: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) The new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the right hon. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee stage: 10th sitting - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) This is from the Green councillors, and the full story is available in their written evidence. - Speech Link
2: None belt and build on agricultural land across the country. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Devolution in Scotland - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Katrina Murray (Lab - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) I worked through the pandemic when we used the red, amber and green statuses to indicate how waiting - Speech Link
2: Scott Arthur (Lab - Edinburgh South West) Of course, we also oversaw a vital expansion of social housing in Scotland, something that is needed - Speech Link
3: Scott Arthur (Lab - Edinburgh South West) cuts, but they did declare a housing emergency none the less—I expected to see a major and concerted - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None —(a) allows building or development outside the boundaries set out in the local plan, or(b) has a housing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) A housing site was allocated in the local plan, under the national rules, for 402 homes. - Speech Link
3: None I think we are all keen on growth and on housing. - Speech Link
4: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We know that this decision releases 18,000 housing units in the Somerset Levels alone. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) In Cornwall we are developing a strategy to provide housing at sites such as Pydar in my constituency - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) I know that the Housing Minister will be delighted to meet my hon. - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We had an example of green-belt land that was, in fact, a car park where building did not take place, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Electricity Infrastructure: Rural Communities - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Angus MacDonald (LD - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) that transmission line operators should consider the impact on local communities by leaving legacy housing - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) Housing are having substations put right outside—I have heard from one household who have a substation - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) What was green belt is now being defined as grey belt. - Speech Link
4: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Some are community owned—Berwickshire Housing Association co-owns a wind farm—but it has gone too far - Speech Link
5: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) In Wales, companies such as Bute Energy and Green GEN Cymru, which are both owned by Windward Energy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Housing: South Cotswolds - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) Friend agree that schemes such as the new social housing in Minehead—the first social housing for a generation—coupled - Speech Link
2: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) Modern housing can be beautiful and blend almost seamlessly with existing housing stock in a way that - Speech Link
3: Samantha Dixon (Lab - Chester North and Neston) including maximising brownfield land, collaborating across boundaries and, where necessary, reviewing green-belt - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None accommodation, not just local housing authorities. - Speech Link
2: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) housing targets across the country. - Speech Link
3: None authority to rely on the local housing authority’s consideration of housing matters.Amendment 156, in - Speech Link
4: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) That is perfectly acceptable, but we do not think it protects the green belt across this great green - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
New Homes Target - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) than 70% of major residential grey-belt appeals. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) That is why we have asked all local authorities that cannot meet their needs to review green belt and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Committee of the whole House - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) The Chagos MPA is one of the jewels in the crown of the Blue Belt programme, a magnificent achievement - Speech Link
2: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) Many Chagossians here face significant challenges, including housing insecurity, barriers to employment - Speech Link
3: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) He said it was in the Green Book, but that is for domestic sites and used by the Treasury to look at - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) I suspect that the Government Members who are not filling the green Benches see it as a sell-out, too - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) He said that Mauritius was not a Chinese ally because it was not part of the belt and road agreement - Speech Link