Speeches by Hinchliff.

“Dr Richardson, in April you told us that the Government had indicated they would request formal advice from the CCC on how to deliver their airport expansion plans without breaching climate targets. Has this request materialised? If not, is it now too late, given the already approved expansion plans?”

“You are not worried about the delays?”

“2. What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the approval under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 between April and June 2025 of the use of 1,656,930 animals over the next five years.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I fully agree. Before I get to costs, I would like us for a moment to lift our eyes to the potential prizes to be won by a new generation of council housing across the country, because council housing is not just the most effective tool we have to cut waiting lists, it …”

“My hon. Friend is absolutely correct in his assessment of one of the many benefits of council housing. The provision of council housing is uniquely important for meeting the Government’s objectives, because of the risk in designing housing policy around a target delivered by a market over which we have limited control.…”

“I agree with my hon. Friend and will come to right to buy later in my speech. As Bevan described, “the speculative builder, by his very nature, is not a plannable instrument.”—[Official Report, 6 March 1946; Vol. 420, c. 451.] They build what makes them most money, while we need our councils empowered to assess the nee…”

“I fully agree that council housing is essential to meeting the housing crisis that we face, and I hope that we will hear ambitious remarks from the Minister. The question is not simply how much housing is built, but the type of housing built and for whom. As has been referenced, more than 1.3 million households in Engl…”

“I fully agree with my hon. Friend. The points he raises perfectly exemplify why the provision of council housing is so important. England has seen 724,000 more net additional dwellings than new households since 2015, yet in the same period the number of households in England on local authority housing waiting lists ros…”

“I had better make some progress. That is the yardstick the Government should measure themselves against. I now come at last to how we might go about achieving this. The place to start, as we have already heard, is with plugging the gap. We must stop draining our stock of council houses, year on year. It is a fact of me…”

“I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. As usual, he makes a good point, and I wholly agree. As our whole nation loses out on the stifled energy, talent and creativity of so many people held back by not having a secure home where they can put down roots and flourish, it is ever clearer that the magic of the invi…”

“Council housing is the first, most important and only viable solution to the housing crisis and to creating a society that matches the hopes of both the Labour movement and the wider public. Not long ago, under the leadership of the current Prime Minister, Labour Front Benchers now sitting in Cabinet declared that hous…”

“More than 1.6 million animals have been approved for testing over the next five years, including through licences for invasive brain research on monkeys and for looking at different methods of killing animals in laboratories. Labour’s manifesto committed to phasing out animal testing. Can the Minister reassure me that …”

“I speak in support of the Bill and in favour of new clause 22 in my name. We can now say in complete confidence that the privatisation and deregulation of our bus services has been a catastrophic failure for rural towns and villages such as those across North East Hertfordshire. Decades of dogmatic adherence to flawed …”

“I thank the Minister for his answers, and I fully agree that there can be no place for violence in our politics. However, does he accept that elderly retired priests and disabled veterans would not be protesting in the way they are if they genuinely believed that Palestine Action was a similar organisation to ISIS or a…”

“Given the unanimity of feeling in the Chamber today on the importance of BNO visas and the uncertainty that the consultation is creating, will the Minister put it on record that he recognises that uncertainty, and that it will be foremost in his mind as he develops policy going forward?”

“The current drafting of national planning policy is allowing developers to ride roughshod over local democracy, imposing completely inappropriate bolt-on estates to market towns such as Buntingford and Royston, while wholly failing to deliver the genuinely affordable housing that we need. It is difficult to imagine a s…”

“I thought, Ms Bradley and Ms Moncrieff, I would begin by highlighting a news story that caught my attention recently. You may well be aware of recent reports in the press of chronic contamination of chalk streams by microplastics. Thousands of tonnes of these pollutants are entering our surface waters from tyre wear ev…”

“My final set of questions picks up specifically what you have just said, Ms Bradley. You have talked about how no one is measuring this properly. As a layperson, is that perhaps because it is a more diffuse problem and harder to track in the way that you can just go to a sewage outflow, or perhaps I am missing somethin…”

“For the sake of the record of the Committee and for any of our viewers, could you perhaps provide a bit of detail on the impact of sewage pollution as compared to pollution from our roads and what that is doing to our waterways?”

“I also find in my constituency that the cost of a decent home is far too high for far too many of my constituents. Does my hon. Friend agree that the solution to that problem is not, as is believed in some quarters, to give the developers the right to strip away our environment and destroy nature, but rather to get on …”