Speeches by Cooper.

“Minister, as we move into the next stage of consultations what can we learn from what has happened with the response to Adlington and how would you do community engagement differently so that we can hopefully bring people with us on the next round?”

“Indeed, although the developer in the Adlington case, Belport, has raised concerns, I think it is fair to say, that the level of public engagement that it could do with the local community was limited by an NDA. Why was an NDA necessary?”

“Is there anything else that you think the Government should be doing to capture value and to safeguard potential sites?”

“Andrew Cooper, MP for Mid Cheshire.”

“What do you mean by “muscular negotiation”?”

“Minister, I would like to come back to the answer that you gave to Sean a moment ago. You have said several times now that the taskforce has produced this list of 12 locations—it has done a good job—based on the criteria that you have given it, and that you are now refining the scope of that criteria. Do you expect tha…”

“How critical is it to the success of the scheme, would you say, that the land value is captured effectively? In your answer, you appear to be saying that the land value capture is important but it is not the be-all and end-all. Would you stand by that or am I putting words in your mouth?”

“Minister, I am sure you set out at the beginning that you would want to take the best decision you can in the national interest, but I am sure you would also want to, where possible, bring communities with you. I think it is fair to say that has not happened in Adlington in Cheshire East where our colleague, the Honour…”

“Minister, I think you will recognise that a fundamental frustration of our constituents is that far too often, when they accept housing development in their towns and their communities, the infrastructure appears years later, if ever. That is fundamental to the section 106 process as it stands at the moment. The whole …”

“The 12 sites that are in there now, that might change? “There might be more, there might be less, we will see”?”

“You are satisfied by the Government’s response to this?”

“I commend the Minister for bringing forward the first road safety strategy in more than a decade, alongside specific and measurable targets for cutting the number of deaths on our roads. Evidently, one of the experiences we share across the House is the first time we meet the family of a child who has been killed on ou…”

“Sixty-six years ago this week, the last regular passenger train called at Middlewich railway station, drawing to a close 92 years of passenger rail travel from the town. A number of students from Middlewich high school have written to me to ask whether the Government would consider reopening the station, and Enterprise…”

“indicated dissent.”

“I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I confess that I am not an expert on the IT of Gloucester city council, but I am sure the Minister has heard his intervention, and may wish to respond in his summing up. I welcome the measures in the Bill to bring managed service providers and data centre infrastructure int…”

“It is a privilege to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes Central (Emily Darlington), who made a fantastic speech. I do not think mine will be of quite the same quality, but I will do my best. Having spent my career prior to entering this place as a software developer, it is perhaps not so much a pleasure…”

“I am absolutely staggered to hear the shadow Secretary of State talk about standard software testing practices as though someone is doing wrong by trying to penetrate systems and find flaws in them. Is not the whole point of software testing to find the flaws in a system and get them fixed, rather than parading them in…”

“T2. I recently met a group of care workers from Northwich who are here through the health and social care visa, and who are undertaking vital work with great commitment and some personal sacrifice. They spoke passionately about the unfairness of applying the proposed changes to requirements for settled status retrospec…”

“I thank the Minister for her statement and welcome her commitment to restoring fairness to the heart of the local government financial settlement, giving our councils the long-term certainty they have been crying out for. The Conservatives were a disaster for local government. In both Cheshire authorities, 70p in every…”

“I thank the Minister for her commitment on this issue and on the child poverty strategy, which is not unrelated to this work. I welcome the strategy she has announced today as a good first step in the right direction. The focus on prevention and the duty to collaborate are particularly important, as is the new money fo…”