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Jane Hunt Excerpts
Monday 27th June 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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The Foreign Secretary will open the Second Reading debate, and I hope people will listen to everything that she and indeed the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland say, in order to make sure Northern Ireland can fully participate in all the benefits of being part of the UK.

Jane Hunt Portrait Jane Hunt (Loughborough) (Con)
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I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

There are two villages in my local area that will essentially become one due to a development that was granted approval on appeal. How is the Secretary of State addressing the current problem of the lack of a five-year land supply circumventing local planning decisions?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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The Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill and our forthcoming national planning policy prospectus will address precisely that question.