Debates between Nusrat Ghani and Oliver Dowden during the 2024 Parliament

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Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Oliver Dowden
Thursday 12th December 2024

(1 week, 5 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nusrat Ghani Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)
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Order. Unless questions are kept short, colleagues will not be able to get in, so think about everybody in the Chamber.

Oliver Dowden Portrait Sir Oliver Dowden (Hertsmere) (Con)
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I know that the Minister is a man of considerable integrity, so can he be honest with my constituents about the fact that the combination of mandatory targets, a massive increase in those mandatory targets and the fig leaf of the grey belt policy means that in a constituency like mine, which is almost entirely green belt, apart from that which is developed on, there will be massive new development, an expansion of London sprawl and a change in the character of the area forever?