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National Planning Policy Framework

I am sure my right hon. Friend agrees that retaining the ““brownfield first”” policy, under which the proportion of property built on brownfield increased between 1989 and 2010, is the answer to many of the current problems. It would, for instance, solve the problem raised by my hon. Friend the Member for North East Derbyshire (Natascha Engel), whether it applied to green belt or greenfield. Does he think that one of the reasons for its absence in is the attachment of developers— who, in my constituency, have been buying up land in both green belt and greenfield—to the Conservative party?