Speeches by Buckley.

“In Shrewsbury, we are delighted to see the extra Government investment in our local police force, which has enabled us to reopen our town centre police hub this week. It is essential to keep our town centre safe and reduce response times. Can we have a debate on how important it is to have police hubs in the town centr…”

“Did you respond to the Cunliffe review?”

“In your evidence, you both kept saying, “In this country, there is a gap in monitoring”. Does either of you have examples from overseas of countries where this is monitored and mitigated?”

“Jo Bradley, do you have any thoughts about the opportunity from the Cunliffe review?”

“Your recommendation is to align those standards with the EU.”

“We know there are wider changes coming to the regulation of the water sector through the Cunliffe review. Do you see this as an opportunity to improve the management of road pollution?”

“Does that regulatory and resource burden explain why more action has been taken against sewage, where the cost burden falls to the private water companies, than on roads, where the burden falls on Government Departments?”

“I will ask my real question. You are aware that our predecessor Committee produced a report recommending that the Environment Agency should require discharge permits for all outfalls on roads with heavy traffic. The then Government disagreed, calling it “a regulatory and resource burden” that was not justified. What is…”

“You are saying that that is also the case in the research community. It is not as if there is a research network across countries where they are talking and raising these questions.”

“Would you mind just sending this Committee the link to the person at Middlesex University? If we can follow up that Sweden link, it would help us in our research.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Helen Maguire) for securing this important debate. The plight of pavement parking affects all our constituencies and, as we have heard, causes particular distress for pedestrians with young children, disabiliti…”

“That is great for London, but are you going to roll it out and get it into—”

“Thank you. That is very helpful.”

“It is interesting that you talk about the accuracy. We heard lots of evidence about the lack of consistency between different actors and how they measure the carbon level. There is mounting evidence pushing towards the whole-life carbon assessment. What is your view on a consistent approach and whole-life carbon assess…”

“Both of those examples are really encouraging. We have heard about the road map and the additional guidance, but would either of you be in favour of seeing that brought forward, for example, in the future homes standard, or through some of those other building regs?”

“Moving on to embodied carbon, Minister Pennycook. As the built environment is responsible for a quarter of the UK’s carbon emissions, why is there no substantial comment or guidance on reducing embodied carbon in the revised NPPF?”

“We will definitely be feeding that back given the scale of the impact. I am sure you have seen on the agenda that the Minister is coming to follow you, so please hold on.”

“Yes, it is your chance to have a chat. My final question is, as this process develops, whether you anticipate perhaps compensation for your borough. How do you imagine that playing out?”

“Of course it does. You touched on people’s homes in terms of the physical infrastructure. Going back to the air quality and noise pollution, you must have your own air quality plans, so presumably you are now having to reassess how you can deliver those quality levels.”

“We will come on to the economic impacts and hopefully investment in your local transport systems and so on. As an aside, do you have contact with Gatwick? Do you share details about how it has coped and the best practices?”