All 1 Debates between Eddie Hughes and Mary Robinson

Mon 23rd Apr 2018
Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill
Commons Chamber

2nd reading: House of Commons & Programme motion: House of Commons & Ways and Means resolution: House of Commons

Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill

Debate between Eddie Hughes and Mary Robinson
2nd reading: House of Commons & Programme motion: House of Commons & Ways and Means resolution: House of Commons
Monday 23rd April 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mary Robinson Portrait Mary Robinson (Cheadle) (Con)
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and for his eloquent and wide-ranging speech. Does he agree about what is at the heart of this matter? He talks about Walsall, but in my constituency, in Cheadle and Cheadle Hulme and the surrounding districts, we also want to see some regeneration of our centres. We want to see people going into the centres, living there, and opening up businesses that can thrive. We want the district centres to look appealing and attractive and have people living and shopping there and utilising them.

Eddie Hughes Portrait Eddie Hughes
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I am simply amazed. My hon. Friend is blessed either with psychic ability or intuition. That is the very point that I was about to move on to. In Beechdale, one of the wards in my constituency—