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Written Statements
Long-term Plan for Housing and Nutrient Neutrality - Mon 04 Sep 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) were started in the capital last year, a third of the 66,000 homes the Mayor identified in his own assessment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 04 Sep 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) The problem with having just a “regard” duty is that there is limited impact on strategic planning. - Speech Link
2: None from an application for planning permission, the making of a development order granting planning permission - Speech Link
3: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) impact, across the world this year. - Speech Link
4: None It has had little impact on the planning system and, therefore, on the local environment. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Land Use in England Committee Report - Tue 25 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) they live.Legal rights to walk in the countryside must be preferable to relying on landowners giving permission - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) particular purposes such as forestry and carbon sequestration, without any strategic or democratic assessment - Speech Link
3: Earl of Leicester (CON - Excepted Hereditary) front of me, said she wanted tenant farmers to be able to carry out actions on their farms without the permission - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) If Rolls-Royce gets permission to produce one of those reactors here—just the first one—that would open - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) even in advance of that legislation, will not inhibit the AI sector but give it greater confidence in planning - Speech Link
2: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) skew detailed analysis.ESG reporting is also becoming the new norm for companies to communicate their environmental - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) assessment, audit and monitoring. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (CON - Excepted Hereditary) to establish the central functions proposed in the White Paper, including horizon-scanning and risk assessment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning and Solar Farms - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (CON - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Planning permission is not usually needed for up to 50 kW on a domestic roof, or for up to 1 MW on a - Speech Link
2: James Gray (CON - North Wiltshire) We are concerned about the 40-year planning permission that has been granted. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) It is deeply problematic that rates of solar farm planning permission refusal have risen significantly - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) assessment through DLUHC’s Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Undetermined Reviews of Old Mineral Permissions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environmental Protection - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) I was planning to explain shortly how the penalties will be used. - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) assessment to truly understand the impact of the problem, but the order itself states that an economic - Speech Link
3: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) Planning permissions continue to be granted for high-intensity poultry units, for example, resulting - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) Will the Minister set out what assessment has been made on the impact of those closures, and will he - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (LAB - Ealing Central and Acton) What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of ticket office closures on rail users - Speech Link
3: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of ticket office closures on rail users - Speech Link
4: Rupa Huq (LAB - Ealing Central and Acton) Was an impact equality assessment carried out? - Speech Link
5: John Spellar (LAB - Warley) What assessment he has made of the potential impact of changed patterns of rail travel on the planning - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
New Housing: Swift Bricks - Mon 10 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (CON - Stockton South) Gentleman makes a valid point: swift bricks cost little and have a huge impact. - Speech Link
2: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) There is no impact on the inside of the church. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) is not perfect because the loss of a swift habitat will not necessarily be captured in the baseline assessment—I - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LDEM - Tiverton and Honiton) Environmental degradation around the world is affecting bird populations.The hon. - Speech Link
5: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) conditions or obligations being used to require that planning permission provides for works that will - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy Infrastructure - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Nicola Richards (CON - West Bromwich East) During a visit to Robert Hopkins Environmental in West Bromwich last year, I was shocked to hear about - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) , including an environmental impact assessment made up of 10,000-plus pages. - Speech Link
3: Paul Beresford (CON - Mole Valley) This coincides with the anticipated launch of Hinkley Point C, while Sizewell C has planning permission - Speech Link
4: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) Net zero by 2050 is not an arbitrary target but a scientific assessment of what is needed to limit the - Speech Link