"2. What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the approval under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 between April and June 2025 of the use of 1,656,930 animals over the next five years. ..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
"More than 1.6 million animals have been approved for testing over the next five years, including through licences for invasive brain research on monkeys and for looking at different methods of killing animals in laboratories. Labour’s manifesto committed to phasing out animal testing. Can the Minister reassure me that the …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
"I fully agree that council housing is essential to meeting the housing crisis that we face, and I hope that we will hear ambitious remarks from the Minister.
The question is not simply how much housing is built, but the type of housing built and for whom. As has been …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
"I fully agree with my hon. Friend. The points he raises perfectly exemplify why the provision of council housing is so important.
England has seen 724,000 more net additional dwellings than new households since 2015, yet in the same period the number of households in England on local authority housing …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
"I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. As usual, he makes a good point, and I wholly agree.
As our whole nation loses out on the stifled energy, talent and creativity of so many people held back by not having a secure home where they can put down roots …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
"My hon. Friend is absolutely correct in his assessment of one of the many benefits of council housing.
The provision of council housing is uniquely important for meeting the Government’s objectives, because of the risk in designing housing policy around a target delivered by a market over which we have …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
That is the yardstick the Government should measure themselves against. I now come at last to how we might go about achieving this. The place to start, as we have already heard, is with plugging the gap. We must stop draining our stock of …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
"I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I fully agree.
Before I get to costs, I would like us for a moment to lift our eyes to the potential prizes to be won by a new generation of council housing across the country, because council housing is not …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech
"Council housing is the first, most important and only viable solution to the housing crisis and to creating a society that matches the hopes of both the Labour movement and the wider public. Not long ago, under the leadership of the current Prime Minister, Labour Front Benchers now sitting in …..." Chris Hinchliff - View Speech