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Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 18 April 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Anne Main. The answering member was Meg Munn.

Housing (Hertfordshire)

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on housing in Hertfordshire.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
459 c104-30WH 
Session
2006-07
Department
Minister for Women
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 459 c121WH (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, I wish to point out that we have half an hour left for the other...
Speaker | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order for the Chair. The Minister can reply as she thinks fit.
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Speaker | 459 c118WH (Link to this contribution) Before I call Mr. Horwood again, perhaps Members would note that interventions should be relatively ...
Lord Lilley | 459 c111WH (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. We need to know the causes of the extra housing targets because they will influenc...
Meg Munn | 459 c129WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that for propriety reasons I am not able to comment on the proposals at the...
Mark Prisk | 459 c129WH (Link to this contribution) The proposal for Harlow North, which the Minister made in her changes to the draft plan, is based on...
Meg Munn | 459 c129-30WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can laugh about this, but it is an important issue. He has raised many questions ...
Meg Munn | 459 c128-9WH (Link to this contribution) The Environment Agency and water companies, as statutory consultees for both the regional spatial st...
Meg Munn | 459 c127-8WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman would contain himself and listen, I might be able to make progress and he migh...
Meg Munn | 459 c129WH (Link to this contribution) On transport and infrastructure generally, of course there are important issues about providing addi...
Anne Main | 459 c129WH (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister moves off carbon emissions, which nearly slipped through, will she comment on my...
Mark Prisk | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) The Division bell will go in two minutes, and the Minister knows it.
Meg Munn | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members have put a range of questions. They have asked about environmental assessments and I am...
Meg Munn | 459 c130WH (Link to this contribution) No, I need to continue. The Government are committed to minimising any loss of the green belt to de...
Martin Horwood | 459 c121-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to applaud many of the positive campaigns that the hon. Member for St. Albans (Anne Main)...
Lord Gove | 459 c121WH (Link to this contribution) As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Lady Winterton, and it is delightful t...
Martin Horwood | 459 c124WH (Link to this contribution) I am quite surprised to hear the Conservative Front-Bench spokesman endorsing the views of Kate Bark...
Lord Gove | 459 c122-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am very careful not to stray beyond Surrey Heath when it comes to signing petitions, but I am alwa...
Meg Munn | 459 c124-6WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) on obtaining the debate. The right hon. Me...
Lord Gove | 459 c124WH (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman spoke, I could hear the sounds of an elephant trap being constructed for me, a...
Martin Horwood | 459 c121WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right up to a point in that an important role for green belt is preventing coalesce...
Anne Main | 459 c120-1WH (Link to this contribution) Unless a designated brownfield site has been specifically ring-fenced within a green belt, it is par...
Martin Horwood | 459 c121WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that guidance, Lady Winterton. I was bringing my remarks to a conclusion, but I have h...
Meg Munn | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a little bad-tempered this afternoon.
Mark Prisk | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Lady Winterton. Is it appropriate for the Minister simply to read out a report ...
Meg Munn | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady will bear with me, I am just coming to that. I was paying attention to her speech. ...
Mark Prisk | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) If the Minister answered our questions, we would not be.
Martin Horwood | 459 c126WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister try to answer my point? This is not simply about the absolute numbers of houses. T...
Anne Main | 459 c127WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for rereading the report that I quoted earlier, but it does not explai...
Meg Munn | 459 c126-7WH (Link to this contribution) No. I need to try to answer the questions that have been asked. The issue is not just about numbers...
Meg Munn | 459 c126WH (Link to this contribution) There is a great deal going on in relation to that. I should be delighted to answer the hon. Gentlem...
Martin Horwood | 459 c111-2WH (Link to this contribution) I share the right hon. Gentleman’s analysis up to a point, and there is a significant out-migration ...
Mark Prisk | 459 c114-5WH (Link to this contribution) No, they were generous. We got two copies of the plan in the library, which caused something of a ch...
Martin Horwood | 459 c115-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) on securing a debate on this important sub...
Lord Lilley | 459 c117WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that people who come here from abroad do not live in houses, or do ...
Lord Lilley | 459 c112WH (Link to this contribution) On the contrary, if the hon. Gentleman looks at the Joseph Rowntree study and the source of that inf...
Mark Prisk | 459 c112-3WH (Link to this contribution) May I add my commendations to my hon. Friend the Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) not only for secu...
Anne Main | 459 c113WH (Link to this contribution) When I was at the east of England plan, I was told that the water issue was a logistical one, becaus...
Mark Prisk | 459 c113-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I cannot understand why Ministers are being so foolish. They cou...
Lord Gove | 459 c117WH (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by the hon. Gentleman’s proposals on second homes. We all appreciate the particular p...
Martin Horwood | 459 c118WH (Link to this contribution) Given that the subject of the debate is housing in Hertfordshire, I will not get distracted into tha...
Martin Horwood | 459 c117WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Of course, I am not saying what he ...
Martin Horwood | 459 c119-20WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I was not aware of that and I agree with him. The emphasis on b...
Mark Prisk | 459 c119WH (Link to this contribution) I rise simply because I want to commend the hon. Gentleman’s remarks. I will be brief, Lady Winterto...
Martin Horwood | 459 c118-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful, Lady Winterton. However, just in reply to the hon. Lady, I think that she is sli...
Mark Prisk | 459 c119WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Anne Main | 459 c118WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has the same problem in Cheltenham that we have in St. Albans, whi...
Anne Main | 459 c105-8WH (Link to this contribution) I raised that point in our last debate on this matter. We suffer in exactly the same way. Property d...
Mike Penning | 459 c108WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being here for the whole of my hon. Friend’s speech, but I was in the main Chamb...
Anne Main | 459 c104-5WH (Link to this contribution) It is delightful to be here this afternoon under your chairmanship, Lady Winterton. As Conservative...
Mark Prisk | 459 c105WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent exposition of the weaknesses in the Government’s policy. Is sh...
Anne Main | 459 c108WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may be aware, as I am, of what happened the other week when the M1 suffered a complet...
Anne Main | 459 c111WH (Link to this contribution) I find it interesting that the Government have also done no real assessment of the unit size of hous...
Anne Main | 459 c108-10WH (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, that happens to the A and E that served my constituency as well. I have every sympath...
Lord Lilley | 459 c110-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend and neighbour the Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) on securing the de...
Mike Penning | 459 c108WH (Link to this contribution) The people who were, sadly, injured in that crash went to the Hemel Hempstead A and E, which is abou...
Subjects
Construction Housing Environment protection Infrastructure Green belt Housing stock Overcrowding Hertfordshire
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