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Written Statements
Planning Reform: Next Phase - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) England remains in the grip of a housing crisis that is both acute and entrenched. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning Reform - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) There will be stronger support for rural social and affordable housing; clearer expectations will be - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) We want to see greater support for social and affordable housing in rural areas. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) to social rented homes. - Speech Link
4: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) housing target, invest far more in directly supporting social housing and ensure that all building meets - Speech Link
5: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) I welcome the ambition to build much-needed homes, especially social and affordable housing. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Plan to End Homelessness - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) We want to build 1.5 million new homes, including more social and affordable housing—more than has been - Speech Link
2: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) However, we urge the Government to go further, in particular by increasing the social housing target - Speech Link
3: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) Gentleman also mentions the need to increase social housing, and I would recommend to him the detail - Speech Link
4: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) That legislation will allow us to speed up the delivery of all housing, including the social housing - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) We know that it does not all need to be social housing and that we need private rented homes as well. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2025 - Thu 04 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) and affordable housing. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pension Schemes Bill
Report stage - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) , carry out a review into the social impact of defined benefit schemes.(2) The review must include an - Speech Link
2: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) We see such investment as an opportunity to drive social rented housing, our high streets and other investment - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Does that new hospital or that new social housing provide enough of a benefit for those younger people - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) housing, including council housing. - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) As was mentioned, there is an overwhelming need for social housing, as well as genuinely affordable homes - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) , including social housing. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homelessness: Funding - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) The biggest short-term drivers of homelessness, outside the chronic undersupply of social rented housing - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) The removal of ringfencing has led to many supported housing services relying on exempt housing benefit - Speech Link
3: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) social housing issues as well. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) In the south-west, almost 65,000 people are on waiting lists for social housing. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) and affordable housing in a generation. - Speech Link
2: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) Let us take housing: rent is going up by £700 this year for the average renter. - Speech Link
3: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Stepney) We are investing in housing, with a record £39 billion for the social and affordable homes programme, - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Indeed, the lack of new socially rented housing being built in Harrow by the Conservative-run council - Speech Link
5: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) The first thing I welcome is the lifting of the two-child benefit cap. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Home Insulation - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) The UK’s housing stock is among the least energy efficient in Europe. - Speech Link
2: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) Friend makes the point very well, and I absolutely agree that poor housing is part of a public health - Speech Link
3: Martin McCluskey (Lab - Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West) We have allocated £1.8 billion through the warm homes local grant and warm homes social housing fund. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) The benefit bill is now unsustainable in this country. - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) and combined benefit income for under-25s. - Speech Link
3: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading Central) Many residents will benefit, and many employers will also benefit through the increased labour mobility - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) , while more social housing is a priority. - Speech Link