Speeches by Powell.

“It costs £9 for someone to come and pick up a remote control.”

“As the Minister is no doubt aware, an increasingly common issue on our high streets is phoenixing. That is where a shop unit continues to trade while cycling through multiple limited companies every few months, none of which pays corporation tax, VAT or business rates. Can the Minister encourage officials at His Majest…”

“14. What steps her Department is taking to help tackle tax evasion by high street businesses.”

“It was about the Department; should it be in MHCLG? You have said it could be arm’s length. If it was not arm’s length, then—”

“You probably already have started this, but are there any other recommendations you would have for a national strategy on community cohesion? Going back to a point you made, Dame Sara, what department should own it and who should be involved in developing it?”

“Going back to your point about trust, however we measure it, we can see that this has happened in lots of western democracies. It feels like we hear these micro-examples—Carly referenced a couple, and in the previous panel we heard some of them—where trust has been rebuilt. People have invested time in relations, they …”

“Joe Powell, Kensington and Bayswater.”

“A brief follow-up to you, Jabeer; this is also a recommendation from the Grenfell inquiry about local resilience and response. I totally agree with you; it has to go down to the local level. Do you think the Government centrally are doing enough to do that, to push down that resilience and response to a local level?”

“That is a good segue to the next part, which is some of the lessons that came from the community response that could be positive in terms of learning. We saw the very heartening response and the support from some parts of the community. I know in my constituency there was immediately an interfaith meeting at the mosque…”

“Joe Powell, MP for Kensington and Bayswater.”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green (Florence Eshalomi), the Chair of the Select Committee, for securing the debate. It is such a relief that we now have a Government who acknowledge the scale of the housing challenge, and are prepared to put serious investment and policy change behind i…”

“I am sorry; I do not have much time left. That means including housing costs when analysing deprivation, ensuring that the daytime population is included, and ensuring that the huge pressure on temporary accommodation is factored in. We all want to reduce the need for temporary accommodation, but in the short term, we …”

“I rise to speak to new clause 155, which stands in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton West (Phil Brickell) and is supported by the all-party parliamentary group on anti-corruption and responsible tax. I welcome the Bill for its clear and ambitious strategy to tackle antisocial behaviour and crime, but if …”

“Saturday marked eight years since 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell tower fire—eight years without justice. But, finally, there is the prospect of some systemic change following the public inquiry. I welcome the Government’s commitment to barring all the cited companies from accessing public contracts and thei…”

“Martin, one of the things that residents are concerned about is that they think that FirstPort gets at the pie from multiple angles. There is, for example, your in-house insurance company. Can you provide us with assurances that Knight Square Insurance, that you control, is providing good value for money?”

“How much do you use this company that is part of your bigger corporate structure?”

“Finally, several of you have referred to some other changes in the last six years; things like the Building Safety Act 2022 and Awaab’s law coming into force in October. How do you expect the new regulation of managing agents to interact with those other changes that have been made to housing sector regulations more br…”

“I have a follow-up question for Halima. If the state remains unadopted, would you support extending the right to manage to those roads or unadopted parts? Would that be helpful?”

“Lord Best, you already mentioned a couple of things that you might have added to your report over six years ago. Could you just outline whether there are any other things that, if you were redoing your report today, you would now include?”

“I am MP for Kensington and Bayswater.”