Speeches by Huq.

“What reason have you been given for the delay?”

“Camilla, over the course of your career, how have you seen the planning system change, in terms of efficiencies within it? It sounds like things are getting slacker.”

“Okay, we will steer away from—hang on, have you got churches? The churches discussion was interesting.”

“You want to do a plan of the whole area.”

“Hi, everyone. It is interesting on the ruins—isn’t there an American sociological theory of broken windows? So what is the impact on a community when heritage sites are left in disuse?”

“What improvements could be made to the planning system to sort things out for you? In recent weeks, someone said to me, “There is too much pre-app”. They did their pre-app and then there is another one and there is a cost every time.”

“Boris got rid of the conservation officers.”

“I have been lobbied by the people who don’t want VAT on —I think that may be in the next session as well.”

“I am just thinking of an example. There is a 1928 stucco, white, chunky block of flats—a low-rise in a new bit of my seat—that was in the Ideal Home exhibition of 1928, apparently. It was women’s pioneer housing, but the allocations policies changed, and it has just become a bit of a dumping ground. There are smashed w…”

“Hilary—maybe you were going to mention this—I have a couple on the safe harbour scheme. How would that work in practice, because I know you have done this piece of work?”

“Do we know what the operating costs would be?”

“This is fascinating stuff, from an all-girl panel, and you have some interesting back stories as well. I had many happy hours in Blackpool at the NUS conference, and we have a hard hat picture of you, Dr Roberts—that is a Beatles song, isn’t it? Anyway, it is really good to have you all here. I am going to ask first ab…”

“What reason have you been given for the delay?”

“Boris got rid of the conservation officers.”

“The hon. Member reads my mind about the postcode lottery, which I will come to in my list of questions. I know that my hon. Friend the Minister is very sympathetic and on the right side. Abiraterone is now a global drug. Half a million men around the world have had transformed outcomes, improved quality of life and ext…”

“Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis has to some extent put prostate cancer in the spotlight of late, but it is not just him—there is Stephen Fry, Jools Holland and Robert De Niro. More than 50,000 men in the UK and 1.4 million men worldwide are diagnosed with prostate cancer yearly, which is projected to double by 2040. With …”

“Yes, I will. What an honour to give way to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon)!”

“I totally agree. West London needs the same as the west of Scotland, the west of Wales, and all the other bits of those other nations. Men can access abiraterone on the NHS in Scotland and Wales, but not in England, even with an identical diagnosis. It seems at best anomalous that their postcode, not their prognosis, i…”

“I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman that access should be based not on how deep somebody’s pockets are, but on need. Abiraterone halves the risk of relapse. Each relapse literally costs the NHS millions—the definition of lose-lose. As many Members have pointed out, it is already successfully available on the NHS…”

“The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. We are seeing a theme of uneven application. The rule of law means that the law applies to everyone, so it looks like something has gone wrong here.”