Speeches by Pennycook.

“I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I am more than happy to pick up that conversation and see where we have got to. For the reasons I have already given, I will not be able to comment on the local plan in question, but suffice it to say that we have a local plan-led planning system, and such a system operates…”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms McVey. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Dr Gardner) on securing the debate and commend her for managing to fit a phenomenal number of issues into that very brief speech. In general terms, I can assure my hon. Friend that the Governmen…”

“Do those on the Lib Dem Benches have any concerns about one of the issues that I raised: applying the decent homes standard to the defence estate in England when a different standard will apply to Scotland and Wales—to other parts of the United Kingdom? Fracturing the defence estate in that way is problematic.”

“With the leave of the House, I will close what has been a brief but good-natured and considered debate. I thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have spoken. In opening the debate, I set out in some detail the reasons the Government are resisting the bulk of the amendments made in the other place, but in the time re…”

“As ever, I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He makes a good point. There is evidence that pet damage is, in many cases, not extensive or a particular issue. Where pet damage occurs, as I will come on to make clear in response to the relevant Lords amendment, we think that the provisions in the Tenant Fees…”

“I am more than happy to continue the conversation with the hon. Gentleman and with Liberal Democrat peers in the other place, but our argument today is that we cannot accept the amendment tabled by Baroness Grender. We think that the concessions that I have offered today from the Dispatch Box should be sufficient to sa…”

“I urge the hon. Gentleman to engage with the clear concession I made from the Dispatch Box: the confirmation that the Ministry of Defence will lay before Parliament—and publish on gov.uk—an annual report on the standard of service family accommodation in the UK, giving transparency, accountability, and reassurance that…”

“This Government were elected with a clear mandate to do what the Conservatives failed to do in the last Parliament—namely, to modernise the regulation of our country’s insecure and unjust private rented sector, and empower private renters by providing them with greater security rights and protections. Our Renters’ Righ…”

“I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 11.”

“The shadow Secretary of State failed to address the second concern the Government have about amendment 21, which is the substantial risk of abuse that will flow from the definition of a “carer”. The definition under the amendment could be anyone providing any form of voluntary care. It could be someone who provides the…”

“indicated dissent.”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dr Huq. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Leigh Ingham) on securing this debate. As you know, she always speaks with force and passion on behalf of her constituents, and has done so again today on this important matter. I appreciate fully the concern…”

“I will take your question in two parts. It is worth saying that the impact assessment is a proportionate assessment of the impacts of part 3 and other parts of the Bill from readily available data. There is limited data in this area, but although we would love to have more, there is enough. Nutrient neutrality is used …”

“I think it is probably useful to add to and emphasise what Minister Creagh said about the land use framework and similarly spatial development strategies not allocating sites. It is for local development plans to allocate specific sites. What the land use framework very helpfully does, in the same way as many of these …”

“It is probably worth the Committee being aware that in opposition, when I had the shadow housing and planning brief, we were encouraged by a number of external stakeholders to take forward a comprehensive national spatial plan. One of the proposals, for example, was that we should establish a royal commission to do so.…”

“I will do, Chair, and I also remind the Committee that we made fairly significant changes to part 3 of the Bill during the Bill Committee, before it came back for Report stage. In terms of the package of amendments that we tabled late last week, they came about on the basis of having reflected on the OEP’s advice, as I…”

“I will answer that question specifically, and in doing so, I will refute—I have to put it as bluntly as that—your characterisation of my remarks on Report stage of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. I made very clear that we were wedded to taking forward the approach that is in the Bill, but throughout the Commons s…”

“Can I press you on how it is substantially different, in your view, so that I can effectively answer your question?”

“We have always been clear, and I have made this argument throughout all the stages of the Bill, that we should not see nature as a blocker to development—although it is a barrier; let me touch on that in one second—and that we can achieve a win-win for both development and the environment if we approach things in a dif…”

“If I could respond to your point afterwards—”