Building Homes

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Oliver Dowden

Thursday 12th December 2024 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. Unless questions are kept short, colleagues will not be able to get in, so think about everybody in the Chamber.

[Sir Oliver Dowden (Hertsmere) (Con)]

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?