Speeches by George.

“I believe the Minister has until 10 past 3 if he wishes. He has not addressed the issue I raised regarding the counterproductive impact of the changes to the national planning policy framework, particularly for edge-of-community rural exception sites. A wholesale change of planning is happening. Those sites were origin…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Butler, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Dunbartonshire (Susan Murray) on her opening remarks. Other speakers have referred to the issues and difficulties that young people today are experiencing. They are not facing a storm but enduring a prolon…”

“The Minister objects. I am sorry but the small business rate relief is still available. The tax loopholes available are still there. Perhaps the Minister can put me right on that, if he wishes. The right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) is right that we need rent controls as well as the Renters’ Rights A…”

“I am not saying that the Government have done nothing, but the changes to furnished holiday lets and double council tax, for example, were actually introduced by the previous Government. The Minister has simply implemented them, which is welcome. I was simply talking about the massive, gaping tax loophole involving ind…”

“Will the Minister give way none the less?”

“rose—”

“The hon. Gentleman raises once again the issue of second homes. He is well aware that the Liberal Democrats have proposed a change in the use class system to introduce a new use class for non-permanent occupancy. The introduction of such a thing would allow local communities to limit the number of second homes. It coul…”

“I have listened carefully. The Minister knows full well that committing to spend 3% or 3.5% tomorrow does not mean that the Government cannot commit to commissioning that expenditure now. He is aware that the delivery pipeline can often take five to 10 years in any case, and therefore the defence investment plan become…”

“We heard about a lot of the impediments and difficulties you have in developing a neighbourhood health estate. Are there any examples of good practice that you know of around the country where communities have navigated their way through the impediments you identified in terms of unused CIL money and delivering precise…”

“This is your development.”

“Does the public side have QSs going through independently on an open-book basis?”

“You have, good; okay.”

“That is useful. Okay.”

“That is your development arm.”

“I am very interested in better understanding the profit and risk-sharing elements of the development and construction side of all this work. There are certain projects that I have seen where—how can I put it?—the public sector takes the risks and the private sector takes the profit. When development budgets are being b…”

“Addressing the issue of delayed discharge from hospital, I am aware that in many parts of the country there is spare capacity within the nursing and residential care home sector, but the commissioners are not keen to discharge there because they deem that the sector is not particularly good at reablement. Therefore, on…”

“I understand that, but is anything being done to better utilise the available capacity? That is the question.”

“I have a very quick yes/no question. How much of the PFI legacy estate is on your books, or is it all held by ICBs?”

“Interestingly, there is an example that we will see next week where the construction of a building that achieved EPC A+ in terms of its energy efficiency, and that is satisfactory and built to a very high standard, was built at significantly less than £2,000 per square metre. I know that a lot of the projects that you …”

“A lot of communities are concerned if NHS Prop Co own the building, because they fear that at some stage it might be sold and that money would then go to the centre, whereas if it is locally owned at least they can recirculate the money.”