Speeches by Ellis.

“As my hon. Friend has mentioned, land value increases exponentially if planning permission is granted or new public infrastructure such as transport links are developed. In my constituency of Ribble Valley, we have had lots of house building, which is largely welcomed as an affordable way for people to stay in the area…”

“On Monday, Members spoke movingly in the Backbench Business debate marking Baby Loss Awareness Week, highlighting the vital, multifaceted role of midwifery in supporting bereaved families, and yet this week, the chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives announced that it has decided not to contribute to NHS Engl…”

“Q My question is about the difference between the current number of strategic authorities, which are very urban, and the big swathe of coming strategic authorities, which are fairly rural. I am interested in how you see leadership evolving in those different areas. Are there ways in which this Bill needs to be strength…”

“Q Building on what you talked about before, in terms of neighbourhood governance, I am interested in what you feel should or could happen if things go wrong. Interestingly, we heard earlier an opinion that parish councils, for example, should be rolled out, whereas the Bill essentially proposes neighbourhood area commi…”

“Q You mentioned how important town and parish councils are, and suggested that you would ideally like to see more parish councils. My question is on the neighbourhood governance proposals in the Bill. What do you make of them? What should they learn from the current structures of the town and parish councils? Based on …”

“Q Both the industries that you represent rely on tourism. One of the things that has come up in discussions that I have had about local government reorganisation is the branding of an area. I just wondered about your thoughts—you have touched on bids and hospitality zones. By way of an example, my area of Ribble Valley…”

“I declare, as per my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, that I am a parish councillor.”

“Q I am interested in community empowerment plans and accountability within them. I will read up on them more, but to Zoë’s point, to what extent do you feel that you need to require different communities, so that it is not just the people who shout loudest, and the standard people you go to in a community, who are hear…”

“My constituency of Ribble Valley has a significant ageing population, and a lot of people are living in quite dated housing stock, which is not adapted. Looking at climate change, we know that heat-related deaths are on the increase and will only continue to increase. Given that our houses are not necessarily adapted f…”

“To follow up on that more generally for the ageing population, to what extent do you think that we should be looking at different groups of the population in thinking about house building? Should we be supporting older people who own their homes to continue living in them, or do you feel that we should be supporting pe…”

“I am Maya Ellis, Labour Member of Parliament for Ribble Valley.”

“We had Sir Michael Marmot in the previous panel, and obviously he is focused on health equity. I want to ask your opinion on that as well. As we know, almost five years ago Awaab Ishak died aged two of a serious respiratory condition caused by prolonged exposure to mould in his parents’ home. How confident are you that…”

“A quick follow-up, picking up on what Helen said and on something that Millie said about home ownership problems. We are talking about training of assessors, but to what extent do you think there is a need for greater awareness generally of how to manage damp and mould in homes? How much do you think that would impact …”

“I thank the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Helen Maguire) for securing this critical debate, on an issue that is such a headache for so many of our constituents. As a mother to two little ones, I know only too well that getting out and about with two young children is hard enough as it is. Being hit with trying to ge…”

“I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I have always been, and I remain, a vocal advocate for devolution and reorganisation. I got to witness the type of joy and hope I want every community to feel when I worked in Greater Manchester during the establishment of the first devolved …”

“Yes, on how local authorities are working together.”

“Do you do any assessment at a national level of how much that is happening and how effectively it is happening? Therefore, do you have a judgment on whether it is happening enough in the way that you would like to see it happen, as opposed to potentially holding things back because they are not working together? I am w…”

“To follow up on that, when you say, “We already encourage local authorities to work together”, is that something that you actively would encourage local authorities to be doing more in order to get some of these things moving, in terms of working together more on section 106 and holding developers to account?”

“There are a couple of things that have been suggested through some of our witnesses. One was around whether the new strategic planning authorities could take an advisory role. Like you say, a lot of the issues that were raised were around capacity of particularly the smaller local authorities in having even the experti…”

“Moving on to section 106, the general sentiment of a lot of the evidence that we have heard from witnesses through this land value capture inquiry has very much been that this is not the time to scrap section 106, but that there are significant improvements needed. The NAO did a report last month around improving local…”