Speeches by Cocking.

“My hon. Friend is making an excellent contribution and I support what he is saying. We must get benefit fraud down and I support some of the measures in the Bill. On the point he has just raised, does he agree that this is only one side of the coin in dealing with benefits in this country? Of course, we must do everyth…”

“Economies grow and jobs are created when individuals are able to take risks and invest in their ideas, so what have the Government done specifically since the general election to help more people in my constituency of Broxbourne become entrepreneurs?”

“15. What steps his Department is taking to encourage entrepreneurship.”

“That is £280,000, not half a million.”

“Can I ask you a different question, Louise? Your area has been through unitarisation, albeit some time ago. My concern with unitarisation is, how do you get all of that economic growth in the place bit right—those powers that the districts currently have around economic growth, town centres and so on? The more town cen…”

“Bridget, if I can ask you a slightly different question. Do you want to give us some views on planning? If you have a bigger authority, some people might say it is easier for the Government to force through lots more housing in different areas because the authority is bigger and you can put more housing together. Do yo…”

“I am a councillor as well, sorry.”

“I am a Member of Parliament for Broxbourne and a Hertfordshire county councillor.”

“I wanted to push back slightly. I think districts are the best size of local government because they allow people to connect with the communities more. So it was just the contrary argument to what Chris was putting over.”

“I was mulling over in my head how to ask these types of questions because we have had the answers around size and the appropriateness of that. There have been different comments from different people. Tim, you think it should be 500,000 or more because of certain services that upper tier authorities deliver, such as ad…”

“I am Member of Parliament for Broxbourne.”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. My point of order relates to comments by Ministers on their plans to impose local government restructuring. At oral questions on 20 January, the Minister for Local Government and English Dev…”

“10. What steps her Department is taking to improve special educational needs provision.”

“I draw attention to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Since I was elected, I have heard countless times from parents across Broxbourne that the special educational needs system is too difficult to navigate and all too often just does not work. What action is the Minister taking to improve …”

“I am really conscious of time. Since you have been in post, have you had a meeting with your counterpart in the Department of Health and Social Care where rough sleeping has been on the agenda?”

“I am Lewis Cocking, Broxbourne. I am a local councillor as well.”

“Your response sounds like it is a talking shop. What were the outcomes from the meeting? What was agreed to be delivered by the next meeting in February?”

“You have outlined on a number of occasions that there is a shortage of housing in London, so why is London’s housing target being slashed?”

“You keep telling us that there is not enough housing in London and you have slashed the target.”

“Minister, I want to talk about joined-up services. We have been talking today about very important and complex issues. Some people who are rough sleeping have very complex needs. What are the Government, and particularly your Department, doing around joining up those services? That is particularly important with the he…”