Adjournment debate on Thursday, 7 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Phyllis Starkey. The answering member was Baroness Smith of Basildon.

Coastal Towns

Westminster hall adjournment debate on coastal towns.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 461 c141-88WH
Session: 2006-07
Department: Department for Communities and Local Government
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP 07/1554
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Deposited papers
House of Commons; Coastal towns. Government response to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee second report of session 2006-07 (HC 351).
Friday, 18 May 2007
Command papers
House of Commons; Coastal towns. Communities and Local Government Select Committee second report with proceedings, evidence (HC 1023 i-v not printed separately) and appendices.
Monday, 26 February 2007
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions: Baroness Smith of Basildon | 461 c186WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not give way. I only have seven minutes left ...; Paul Beresford | 461 c185WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?; Baroness Smith of Basildon | 461 c186-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is important to recognise the degree of funding that the current structures allow. I entirely acc...; Speaker | 461 c186WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask hon. Members to let the Minister respond.; Phyllis Starkey | 461 c143WH (Link to this contribution) I certainly hope that the Government now have a greater understanding, but it is up to individual co...; Michael Jack | 461 c143WH (Link to this contribution) I see the hon. Member for Blackpool, South (Mr. Marsden) in his place. I am sure that he will provid...; Phyllis Starkey | 461 c141-3WH (Link to this contribution) I rise to introduce the Select Committee on Communities and Local Government’s report on coastal tow...; Phyllis Starkey | 461 c144WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman.; Adrian Sanders | 461 c144WH (Link to this contribution) That is an important issue to emerge from the report, and one that we do not necessarily think of in...; Shona McIsaac | 461 c160-2WH (Link to this contribution) As someone who sat on the Standing Committee that considered the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bil...; John Butterfill | 461 c160WH (Link to this contribution) There is a similar situation in Bournemouth, where there is a very high proportion of leaseholds—the...; Shona McIsaac | 461 c158-60WH (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree. I intended to touch on some of the problems in that regard later in my speech. O...; Gordon Marsden | 461 c158WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech and echoing many of the points that have been made a...; John Butterfill | 461 c165-6WH (Link to this contribution) Although Bournemouth is often considered to be one of the most successful seaside towns in the count...; Robert Syms | 461 c167WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to my hon. Friend, who is making a good case for Bournemouth, which has don...; Speaker | 461 c162WH (Link to this contribution) A number of hon. Members would still like to speak, but if Members restrict their speeches to less t...; John Pugh | 461 c162-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that as a former Tourism Minister, you must be tempted to intervene in this debate, Mrs. A...; John Butterfill | 461 c167WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Although some might not agree, Bournemouth is in some ways fortunate for ha...; Phyllis Starkey | 461 c167WH (Link to this contribution) It was brilliant.; John Butterfill | 461 c167WH (Link to this contribution) So I gather. The hon. Lady has done an excellent job, and I hope that the Government will listen. It...; Gordon Marsden | 461 c170WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman acknowledges Blackpool’s good road links, and I do not dispute any...; Tim Loughton | 461 c167-70WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, apologise for missing the first few minutes of the excellent speech by the Chairman of the S...; Mark Simmonds | 461 c172-3WH (Link to this contribution) As a non-member of the Select Committee on Communities and Local Government, I start by congratulati...; Tim Loughton | 461 c170-2WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has had 10 years to do something about it, but let us not go there, because we ha...; Shona McIsaac | 461 c173WH (Link to this contribution) I was there, too.; Mark Simmonds | 461 c173-4WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady was also on the local authority in Wandsworth with me at that time, and I am sure that...; Shona McIsaac | 461 c174WH (Link to this contribution) No; my constituency is in north Lincolnshire.; Mark Simmonds | 461 c174-7WH (Link to this contribution) Well, I am talking about the East Lindsey district council area, which is along the coastal strip. T...; Adrian Sanders | 461 c177-80WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey) on securing the debate an...; David Amess | 461 c153WH (Link to this contribution) I am greatly obliged to the Chairman, and we owe the hon. Gentleman a great debt of gratitude for co...; David Amess | 461 c153-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I entered the House of Commons at the same time, so we have become accustomed to ...; John Butterfill | 461 c153WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that it is a coincidence that the Government’s response applies only to re...; Tim Loughton | 461 c156WH (Link to this contribution) Downsized.; David Amess | 461 c156WH (Link to this contribution) Sorry, I mean downsized. We are fighting those changes, but I do not know whether we will get anywh...; Shona McIsaac | 461 c156-8WH (Link to this contribution) Like other Members who have spoken today, I pay tribute to the work of the Select Committee. I also ...; Adrian Sanders | 461 c154WH (Link to this contribution) A very peculiar issue about bus travel that seems to worry several seaside resort local authorities ...; David Amess | 461 c154-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made a wonderful point. We were not given anything, and an even greater burde...; Mark Simmonds | 461 c155WH (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend makes an extremely powerful case. Is he aware that rumours are circulating...; David Amess | 461 c155-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has his ear closer to the ground than I do. However, I think that the Chamber has hea...; Anthony D Wright | 461 c185WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for having to be absent from the debate for an hour. I had another meeting to go to and ...; Baroness Smith of Basildon | 461 c185WH (Link to this contribution) We should be able better to address infrastructure issues through a regional approach. My concern an...; Shona McIsaac | 461 c185WH (Link to this contribution) rose—; Baroness Smith of Basildon | 461 c185WH (Link to this contribution) Before I give way, I want to finish making this point. My hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, Sout...; Robert Syms | 461 c181-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in the debate, because both it and the report are very worth while. Those ...; Baroness Smith of Basildon | 461 c183-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Poole (Mr. Syms) for truncating his comments. It is most frustr...; Gordon Marsden | 461 c151-2WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and F...; David Amess | 461 c152-3WH (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly congratulate the Select Committee on its report. I can say with my hand on my heart...; Gordon Marsden | 461 c150-1WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely accept what the hon. Gentleman says as it underlines the need for transport and periphera...; Michael Jack | 461 c151WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one way to develop the co-ordination to which he referred to the ...; Phyllis Starkey | 461 c153WH (Link to this contribution) It was the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh).; Tim Loughton | 461 c145WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the Chairman of the Select Committee for not having been present for the start of her...; Gordon Marsden | 461 c147-9WH (Link to this contribution) I wish to declare my interests, as one should, at the beginning of my contribution. First, I am the ...; Tim Loughton | 461 c149-50WH (Link to this contribution) Internal transport in Blackpool may leave a little to be desired, but getting to Blackpool is relati...; Phyllis Starkey | 461 c145WH (Link to this contribution) I accept the Government’s word when they say that they will take an issue more seriously. However, i...; Paul Beresford | 461 c145-7WH (Link to this contribution) I appear not as a resident of a coastal town but as one of the Committee members. It has been pointe...
Subjects: Coastal areas Migration Urban areas Regeneration
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Coastal Towns

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