Housing and Homes

The hon. Lady will be aware of the borrowing cap issue and how we have made changes around that, ...

I welcome the point that the Minister makes about building on brownfield sites first, but how muc...

This is why I made my point about the national planning policy framework and how it fits within t...

My right hon. Friend is making some excellent points. He referred to the requirement for local au...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Local plans are central to setting out how and where loc...

The Secretary of State talks about fairness. What will he do to ensure fairness for those who buy...

I will come to the point about leasehold that the hon. Lady highlights, but first I want to finis...

I want to comment on the point about renters. We often hear that people are forced to move freque...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for putting those facts on the record. However, all the ref...

On new build leaseholds, is my right hon. Friend prepared to consider an exemption for the retire...

I would certainly be happy to meet my right hon. Friend and others to discuss that issue. I note ...

This is the Secretary of State’s first housing debate, but it is a bit like “Groundhog Day.” He i...

The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that last year’s figure of 217,000 additional homes is the...

The hon. Gentleman is a hard-working, loyal Back Bencher, and I have to give him credit. He is ma...

Is my right hon. Friend aware of the article in The Huffington Post at the beginning of the week,...

My hon. Friend is right. The number of families—now nearly 80,000—living in temporary accommodati...

The right hon. Gentleman’s leader is a keen fan of rent control to cap the total level of rents. ...

I am surprised if the hon. Gentleman has not already done so, but he should read the housing mani...

In the past, local authorities were able to handle housing crises, such as when way back in the ’...

My hon. Friend might be interested to read the fine detail of the Green Paper that we launched la...

The right hon. Gentleman just committed to a policy of permanent discount. Is he aware that lende...

I have less concern than the hon. Gentleman about that. I recommend that he read the Green Paper....

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I gave the hon. Gentleman the chance to speak earlier. I will conclude now, because there are man...

Order. It will be obvious to the House that a great many people wish to speak, and that we have a...

It is clear from what we have already heard that the Secretary of State, the Government’s previou...

Should not the Government at least look seriously at land value taxation? It is about time that w...

The hon. Gentleman leads me to my next point.

The current situation is the wrong way around...

It is great to hear a radical speech. I hope that those on the Government Front Bench are listeni...

I would be delighted to accept my hon. Friend’s invitation.

Fortunately we do not need a ne...

I am glad that this is a general debate on housing, because it allows me to draw attention to the...

The hon. Lady said that house building had fallen to its lowest level since the 1920s, yet in 200...

Hold on and I will tell you. [Interruption.] Did the hon. Gentleman say, “From the Labour party m...

I am going to speak about street homelessness, because what I observed recently in the seven days...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and it enriches this place to hear the experience o...

Absolutely. We have to segment the homeless as much as we can. The Prime Minister has made an ext...

I would like to spend the few minutes available to me in this debate to talk about the financial ...

Does my hon. Friend recognise that some companies see the leasehold issue as so toxic that they a...

I welcome that fact, but what tends to happen is that companies add an extra £5,600 or so on to t...

I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I acknowledge the Go...

Does my hon. Friend agree that one of those local pressures could be the need for a local authori...

I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. I have been careful in saying that the power has to be u...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important debate. Housing is a central issue i...

We all know the importance of housing because we all do surgeries and have families coming to see...

My hon. Friend mentioned the delays in the planning system, which still exist. He might be intere...

That might be too efficient for the British system, given that everybody has to have their say. N...

I am grateful for this brief opportunity to contribute to this debate, and I am pleased to follow...

Order. I am afraid that I must reduce the speaking time limit to four minutes.

5.45 pm

The Government have set out an ambitious target for housebuilding. I welcome the Secretary of Sta...

We are facing a situation in which, for the first time, children can expect to earn less than the...

I am very pleased to follow the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin Madders), who m...

I would ordinarily want to agree with the hon. Gentleman, but if I did so on this, we would both ...

If the hon. Gentleman had been paying attention to my speech, he would have heard me say that thi...

As my hon. Friend says, the abolition has had a demonstrable impact on first-time buyers. That ha...

I fully agree with my hon. Friend’s sentiments.

The abolition of stamp duty for first-time ...

I wonder how many of us here have experienced living in a home that is not fit for purpose and it...

When my hon. Friend says that housing is a right and particularly that it is a right not to live ...

Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes a very good point.

I am of the opinion that someone should...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Laura Smith).

During the...

Oxford is now the least affordable place in Britain to buy a home, with the average home costing ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Oxford East (Anneliese Dodds), who made a consider...

Given that housing benefit, which my hon. Friend just mentioned, takes up 3% of public expenditur...

Yes; my hon. Friend anticipates where I was going. We should tell local authorities, and all othe...

It is a delight to follow the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman), who had many very good ...

Well said. Carry on.

I would love to, but I do not want to stop anyone from speaking.

I ask hon. Members from al...

I welcome this debate, and I am glad that the Government have made housing a key priority in this...

I will focus on York’s local plan during the short time I have to speak. We do not yet have a loc...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell).

Instead of l...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge).

I want to f...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does she agree that that is why selective licensing s...

I thank my hon. Friend for that contribution. That is exactly the point that I wish to make.

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (Emma Hardy).