Speeches by Ellis.

“I just have a quick question on getting to that 1.5 million homes in non-devolved areas. I visited Preston City Council last week and saw some incredible investment it is doing in the Harris Quarter there, which will improve the night-time economy and hopefully improve the viability of potential city centre house build…”

“Coming on to future planning reform, we are very over time, so just a quick answer would be wonderful. Last year, when you came to see us, we spoke about national development management policies and you said you were committed to consulting on them. Can you let us know where you are up to on thinking around those?”

“It was something they raised that they were suggesting was causing a problem.”

“I am Maya Ellis, the MP for Ribble Valley.”

“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…”

“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…”

“I thank the Prime Minister for leading from the front in promoting the importance of his role as a father and keeping time for family life. I am delighted that in the past week, the Government have launched a review into parental leave and started to rebuild the legacy of Sure Start by launching our Best Start family h…”

“You touched a little bit there on how you have been working with other Departments. How well do you feel that this mission-led Government are working, given that you are holding a core part of the legislative changes? What opportunities do you think there are to improve that working going forward?”

“Do you recognise that there is a sense that the Treasury’s thinking is still focused on agglomeration; that there is devolution to the urban and city areas, but that those surrounding dispersed and county areas are not necessarily going to benefit from it? Maybe we need a bit more leadership to articulate our vision fo…”

“I am pleased to hear your enthusiasm about building data capacity in the Department. I have raised in the Chamber how surprised I was to learn, from many written questions in the first year of being in government, how little data we have. To what extent do you already report on, or could possibly report to this Committ…”

“I have a quick follow-up. I appreciate that you might not have the answer now, but I am aware that in Lancashire, about 10 years ago, we used to have a data insights team of about 80 staff, and that was cut—”

“We know that local authorities have been cut to the bone, and that data is so valuable, but presumably the response at the moment will be, “How do we put that capacity in?” I am just interested—potentially for a future update—in how we are supporting local authorities if we are demanding more of them in terms of data. …”

“On devolution, you quoted the Chancellor earlier as saying that she wants growth across the whole UK, and you talked about building communities. As a rural MP, I am incredibly grateful for those recognitions in the fair funding formula to support rural areas. As a northern MP, I am incredibly grateful for the Green Boo…”

“I am Maya Ellis, the MP for Ribble Valley.”

“I have a couple of questions about the broader spending review decision making, and then one big one, I guess, around devolution. On the spending review itself, what trade-offs did the Ministry make in negotiating its spending review settlement with HM Treasury?”

“As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on babies, the most common refrain I hear is, “Bring back Sure Start.” I commend my right hon. Friend on focusing on learning from the past and looking to the future, and I thank her for showing the best of the Labour party by starting to restore the Sure Start legacy. Many…”

“I am the MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire.”

“What reforms do you think need to be made to mobile home legislation so that there can be a working relationship for both site owners and park home owners?”

“We heard earlier about the relationship between landlords and renters. Within the relationship between site owners and park home owners, what role do those site owners take in terms of supporting home owners with energy improvements and living? How does that tend to work? We have talked about rogue site owners, so do y…”

“Debbie, you represent park home site owners. In the previous panel, we heard from Sonia McColl who represents people who own homes on park home sites. One of the interesting things she said was that there has not actually been much positive engagement with site owners. Can you tell me a bit about how you and your membe…”