Speeches by Buckley.

“I was hoping for an answer first.”

“All you need to do is write to us with those examples so that we can showcase them as a pilot for the rest of the country. You also touched on the current criteria for funding grants when we were talking about resilience. Currently, it is about the number of properties, so the scale of the flood. You all talked about f…”

“I would like to follow up with Hannah Burgess. I was interested that you kept referring to surface water as being an additional problem and making sure we are talking about water flooding from all different sources. From our experience in Shrewsbury in my constituency we have loads of long, detailed planning ahead abou…”

“What do you think we could do? What would help, if you were to make a recommendation around those two different types of flooding?”

“Integrity and hygiene of data within that data-sharing.”

“On a point of order, Dr Murrison. The manner in which the shadow Minister described the view that a farmer was better off if he committed suicide before April 2026 was highly irresponsible. This is a public debate on a very emotive subject. It is televised and it is being shared across social media in real time. This i…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“My farmers in my Shrewsbury constituency have told me that they have struggled to make a profit for many years now. Indeed, they say, “The only game in town is to go big or go bust.” In other words, 12,000 small farmers have gone under because, over the last decade, farming has not been a profitable business. They tell…”

“Anything that could encourage or enforce that consistency of measure could help to make sure you are all using the same units?”

“I thank the Minister for her comprehensive speech setting out the benefits of the order. I am particularly pleased to hear of the ongoing dialogue with the sector and the emerging strategy. Will she reassure Members that the changes will not leave behind some of the smaller, perhaps rural, stations, if, for example, th…”

“Do you think that penalties should be quite clear? Do you think that would help in order to—”

“Do you think that would help compliance?”

“The penalty then pays for the resourcing that you are saying is missing. That is quite a useful recommendation for us.”

“On the same point, I was quite appalled to hear how low the percentage is of housebuilders that are delivering these sites. It was a quite shocking statistic. You talked a lot about enforcement. What is the penalty if housebuilders don’t deliver these sites?”

“Do you think that penalties should be quite clear? Do you think that would help in order to—”

“Do you think that would help compliance?”

“The penalty then pays for the resourcing that you are saying is missing. That is quite a useful recommendation for us.”

“Could I just come back in? If we can go back one question to the recruitment and retention issue, I am hearing from quite a few of you that the problem is around the inadequate resource for growing demand. I am just thinking about my previous career in local government, where if you think about other mandated requireme…”

“Largely developers now have a kind of tick box, where they know they will have to tick these three boxes to get approval, especially to get into a local plan, so they will just tick those boxes because they don’t want a delay, because a delay is a cost to a developer. Maybe there is a space there around ring-fenced req…”

“Your example of the combined authorities, where they perhaps have a pool of people, some of those might be consultants that could be capitalised, but you also need the option for direct employees. Last, on your point about retention, through EDI—equality, diversity and inclusion—policies, you should be able to get addi…”