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Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) consider evidence provided by way of hearsay and that evidence will be admissible without notice or permission - Speech Link
2: None Amendment 41 seeks to amend the Housing and Planning Act 2016. - Speech Link
3: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) Gentleman not to press his amendment.Amendment 37, tabled by the hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence Spending - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) With permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement updating the House on the Government’s commitment - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) This 2030 target is not; it is in a press release. - Speech Link
3: Jane Stevenson (Con - Wolverhampton North East) in on me in Wolverhampton North East last week, and I spoke about the importance of aerospace to my local - Speech Link
4: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) Friend share my concern that the statement from the Opposition that they are planning to conduct a review - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None local authority under Section 106(5) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) permission needed: as I look round Watford, I can see evidence of that with my own eyes. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Permitted development removes the step of local accountability through the planning system, often the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) If any development was proposed, it had to go through the normal application to the local planning authority - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill
2nd reading - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) I will press on, as I have now answered five times on parachute payments.We will achieve our goal through - Speech Link
2: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) I met the owner of my local club recently. - Speech Link
3: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) What is local about that? - Speech Link
4: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham) Perhaps he is going to arrange that—I do not know—but the stadium will not be given planning permission - Speech Link
5: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) For too long, there has been no focus on sustainability and future planning, which has left many clubs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) with victim services at the moment is that there is nothing in the medium term, let alone long-term planning - Speech Link
2: None That is why I may have to press this amendment when it comes to a vote. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) Unfortunately, if she is to press this question to a Division, we will abstain. - Speech Link
4: None tribunal under subsection (2), the tribunal must—(a) allow the person who made the statement to request permission - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) At the end of March 2024, 110 local planning authorities—a third of the total—had adopted a local plan - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) It is vital for local councils to follow what is in the national planning policy framework. - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) local plans, and I have every confidence that planning committees up and down the country do that. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) advised on which technically feasible locations they would be prepared to grant planning permission? - Speech Link
5: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) authorities the power to declare null and void any planning permission where the developer cannot or - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) With these assurances in mind, I hope that the noble Baroness will agree not to press her amendment at - Speech Link
2: None With these assurances, I hope that noble Lords will agree not to press their amendments. - Speech Link
3: None Further, it reported on permission fees, whereby a leaseholder has to pay the freeholder for permission - Speech Link
4: None For example, there are many new leasehold developments already at the planning stage, and to ban all - Speech Link
5: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Beyond the planning functions of a change of use, or licensing for some premises that needs it, it has - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) is essentially a permissive regime—having planning permission does not oblige you to build anything—and - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) At the local level, local planning authorities must have the central role, despite cuts in planning department - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Ministers need to be able to exercise powers to grant planning permission and bypass local planning authorities - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill
Report stage - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) The key point is that the zoo contributes £24 million to the local economy, as well as making the income - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) great that the Government are supporting this worthy change in the lease, which benefits the zoo, the local - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) One of the grounds for giving ZSL planning permission for further work is that it would make available - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Large-scale Solar Farms - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Martin Vickers (Con - Cleethorpes) When the planning guidance is read to local authorities, it could be interpreted much more robustly by - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) public record and in the press—and I do so again.When I met the Roundhill Wood Solar Farm Opposition - Speech Link
3: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) None the less, speculative developers apply for planning permission and then sell their options to other - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) The planning system must allow all views to be taken into account when decision makers balance local - Speech Link