Speeches by Cooper.

“Given the 1% applies to the original purchase price rather than the last valuation, why is it appropriate to use the original purchase price—which might have been some time ago—for a 1% staircase but it is not appropriate to use later on?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Furniss. I congratulate the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier) on securing this debate. We have heard some harrowing stories from right hon. and hon. Members from across the Chamber. I am pleased that the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lew…”

“I am Andrew Cooper, Member of Parliament for Mid Cheshire.”

“Secretary of State, what you are describing there is all well and good for large-scale developments such as data centres or the OxCam corridor. I completely understand that, but what my colleague was referring to is the genuine frustration that people feel in communities that infrastructure is always a long way down th…”

“I am going to declare at the start that the estate that I live on is a mixture of freehold and leasehold, although I, in fact, live in a freehold property. There are estate charges and service charges accordingly on that scheme. The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 was passed in the wash-up under the last Governm…”

“Are you confident that the timeline allows for implementation during this Parliament, despite any potential legal cases that may occur?”

“We have talked a lot about the 1.5 million homes to be built over this Parliament. Many of those being delivered today continue to be on so-called fleecehold estates, where residents pay a service charge for play areas and open spaces. Many continue to be built with private roads and private sewerage systems. Despite p…”

“Specifically on the assets that are part of an estate, I am talking about the roads, sewers and play areas that, for somebody who lives on an estate that was maybe built 30 years ago, would have been adopted by the water authority or the council, or possibly the parish council, for maintaining the play area. Somebody o…”

“Minister Pennycook recently committed in a Backbench Business debate to meet with FirstPort’s managing director. What would be your message to FirstPort about how it operates estate charges?”

“I just want to pick up on the points that you were making about devolution. In February, the Government announced the devolution priority programme to take forward proposals to create six new mayoral strategic authorities. In July, the then Minister, Jim McMahon, announced the consultation response and confirmed that t…”

“As far as you are concerned, you are fully committed to the devolution priority programme and to filling in the gaps in the north-west, in Cumbria, and in Cheshire and Warrington, and creating those mayoral combined authorities.”

“Have you seen that effect exacerbated in one part of the country over another particularly?”

“We heard quite some concern this morning from the previous panel over how the tribunal will operate and, following on from that, calls for rent controls or limiting rent increases to CPI or wage growth. To what extent would it have an impact on the supply of privately rented homes if one of those came into effect?”

“Could the reforms adversely affect supply in particular parts of the country? You talked a bit about how, at the lower end of the market, it might have a bigger impact. Do you want to build on that?”

“I would like to build on what we were talking about and to look at the potential impact of the new regulatory standards on the private rented market. We have talked a bit about the decent homes standard and about Awaab’s law. We have heard evidence this morning that one in five private rented homes do not currently mee…”

“I am Andrew Cooper, MP for Mid Cheshire.”

“I strongly welcome the Defence Secretary’s continued leadership on Ukraine. I visited Estonia in early September, just prior to the incident in which three MiG-31 Russian fighter jets entered Estonian airspace and stayed for 12 minutes, in a further dangerous escalation of tensions in the region. Even before that incid…”

“5. What recent discussions he has had with allies on military support for Ukraine.”

“I thank the Minister for his statement and for his very clear personal commitment on this issue. He will be aware that building and maintaining trust between the affected families and the Government is essential. I am sure he will agree that the Hillsborough law, which comes before the House next week, is one example o…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”