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Debate between Kit Malthouse and Liam Byrne
Monday 28th January 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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Goxhill is lucky to have such an assiduous representative in my hon. Friend. I agree with him that we need to balance the aspiration for new homes for the next generation against the need for sensitive and appropriate development. I urge him to work with the residents of Goxhill to put in place a neighbourhood plan, which would mean that they would no longer be victims of the planning system, but its bosses.

Liam Byrne Portrait Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State will know that the battering of Birmingham next year will be all the more severe for his decision to rule out access to the council’s reserves. Birmingham’s MPs have written to him to ask for a meeting. When he finally wrote back, he refused to meet. May I say to him that he can take these decisions but it is incumbent on him to front them up to Members of this House?