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Future of Town Centres and High Streets

Backbench debate on Tuesday, 17 January 2012, in the House of Commons, led by Marcus Jones. The answering member was Grant Shapps.
Unallotted backbench debate. Motion lapsed.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
538 c622-722 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 538 c627 (Link to this contribution) Order. In view of the level of interest, and as has been made clear on the Annunciator, I have impos...
Speaker | 538 c637 (Link to this contribution) Order. Given that a number of Members wish to catch the eye of the Chair, I shall now reduce the tim...

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Marcus Jones | 538 c622 (Link to this contribution) I certainly think that we at least need to put our town centres and high streets on a level playing ...
Lord Austin of Dudley | 538 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Gentleman on his success in securing the debate. Dudley town centre has seen bett...
Marcus Jones | 538 c623 (Link to this contribution) Dudley is an important area and the hon. Gentleman makes a strong case for it, but I think it probab...
Karen Bradley | 538 c623 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for securing this very important debate. May I share with him the experience ...
Marcus Jones | 538 c623 (Link to this contribution) It is important for people to try to get the best deal in terms of their shopping habits, but relian...
Andrew Murrison | 538 c623 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend eloquently lays out the reasons why many town centres are falling on hard times. Has ...
Julian Huppert | 538 c624 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. Is he aware of a study by Trans...
Marcus Jones | 538 c622 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the future of town centres and high stre...
Robert Halfon | 538 c622 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate, as well as on setting up the all-pa...
John Howell | 538 c624 (Link to this contribution) I agree that my hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does he agree that the neighbourhood planni...
Marcus Jones | 538 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) That vision is certainly significant and, along with the national planning policy framework provisio...
Peter Bone | 538 c624 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he welcome what is happening in Wellingborough an...
Marcus Jones | 538 c624 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent case for his local area, and such positivity will do nothing but h...
Joan Ruddock | 538 c625 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate. Does he agree that if we are trying to att...
Daniel Byles | 538 c625 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend and neighbour has mentioned the town of Bedworth in my constituency, may I take th...
Marcus Jones | 538 c625 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. With regard to the local shopping on offer, Bedwo...
Daniel Byles | 538 c624 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that people who do not go to the town centre at all because they cannot wa...
Marcus Jones | 538 c624 (Link to this contribution) That is a sensible if not obvious point, and it is important. As for how we address that decline, I...
Marcus Jones | 538 c624 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a reasonable suggestion, but there is a difference between travel in the London...
Tracey Crouch | 538 c626 (Link to this contribution) In addition to the proliferation of betting shops, there has been a proliferation of high-cost credi...
Marcus Jones | 538 c625 (Link to this contribution) Betting shops are an important part of our town centres and high streets, as I am sure the right hon...
Speaker | 538 c626 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) responds, let me say, first, that he has been ...
Bob Stewart | 538 c628 (Link to this contribution) It is terribly important to point out that the issue is not just about retail, but about attracting ...
Simon Danczuk | 538 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Backbench Business Committee and the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on secur...
Mary MacLeod | 538 c627 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in commending the Mayor of London, who today announced £177 million of t...
Marcus Jones | 538 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker, for that guidance. I will try to keep my remarks brief and to keep interventi...
Marcus Jones | 538 c627 (Link to this contribution) That is fantastic news, and just the sort of support that our town centres and high streets need. It...
Mark Spencer | 538 c630 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that many of those who make purchases on the internet take the trouble to ...
Gary Streeter | 538 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be taking part in this debate about the health of our high streets and town centres....
Simon Danczuk | 538 c629 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. Bank lending is a real problem for small businesses, and one that the Gove...
Mark Tami | 538 c629 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is also a problem with bank lending to enable high-street shops...
Simon Danczuk | 538 c628-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and the Portas review makes the point that town centres are not just about retail, but abou...
Gary Streeter | 538 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. She is absolutely right. However, if I had a choice between being i...
Mary MacLeod | 538 c630 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that market days have a role to play in the high street to give shoppers s...
Gary Streeter | 538 c630 (Link to this contribution) I will of course give way, but for the last time.
Gary Streeter | 538 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) I will not, if my hon. Friend does not mind. I have given way twice already, and I have an awful lot...
Robert Halfon | 538 c633 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman's thoughtful speech. He says that local retail centres are not ...
Jim Dowd | 538 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sorely tempted to throw my notes away and to join the hon. Member for South West Devon (Mr Stre...
Sarah Wollaston | 538 c633 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that our high streets have a wider role in supporting local supply cha...
Jim Dowd | 538 c633 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that in a moment. Perhaps I have not made myself clear. I do not think that the thre...
Gareth Johnson | 538 c635 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on showing great leadership through...
Jim Dowd | 538 c633-5 (Link to this contribution) That is indeed true. I was involved in producing a report a few years ago, and we discovered that, ...
Gareth Johnson | 538 c635 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but I do not feel that it is an either/or situation. Many families can enjoy both the high stre...
James Gray | 538 c635 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear about the families enjoying themselves at Bluewater, but does my hon. Friend not a...
Jim Shannon | 538 c636 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Member think that although the high streets might offer certain qualities and a partic...
Gareth Johnson | 538 c636 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend extends a kind invitation but he need not have because I have visited Harlow shopping...
Robert Halfon | 538 c635 (Link to this contribution) I invite my hon. Friend to the Harvey shopping centre in Harlow. It is a wonderful shopping centre i...
Gareth Johnson | 538 c636-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Of course town centres need to be accessible. Perhaps the most po...
Glyn Davies | 538 c636 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that as much as anything else, town centres must remain accessible and tha...
Gareth Johnson | 538 c636 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. People will always be out bargain hunting when they are shopp...
Ann Coffey | 538 c638 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and the difficulty that retailers currently face is partly due to the consequences of th...
Gloria De Piero | 538 c638 (Link to this contribution) Last month Eastwood lost its only shoe shop because Jonathan James went into liquidation. Does my ho...
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 538 c674 (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members from both sides of the House have spoken eloquently about the strength of some of the l...
Gavin Williamson | 538 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, all the parking is free in all the villages and community centres, such as Wombo...
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 538 c675 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that a Labour council is driving forward parking charging proposa...
Martin Horwood | 538 c675 (Link to this contribution) In that case, will the hon. Gentleman have a word in the ear of his fellow Conservatives on Gloucest...
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 538 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is very lucky, because his council has held a consultation. We have had promises of c...
George Eustice | 538 c676-8 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones), on securing this very import...
Chris White | 538 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) I, too, begin by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing a very popu...
Simon Hart | 538 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) I know that you will not mind, Mr Deputy Speaker, if we return to Wales for a few moments. I want to...
Paul Uppal | 538 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing this important debate. I have...
Nick de Bois | 538 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak, and I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr...
Peter Aldous | 538 c685 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing this debate and to t...
Richard Graham | 538 c685 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that what Gloucester city council has done, which is to reduce parking cha...
George Hollingbery | 538 c682-3 (Link to this contribution) My constituency town centres—I suspect like those of many Members—have been subject to the developme...
Stephen Lloyd | 538 c683-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing this important debate. I work...
Nigel Mills | 538 c687-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (David Morris). I a...
Julian Huppert | 538 c689-91 (Link to this contribution) Liberal Democrats believe that community politics should be at the heart of what we do. Decisions th...
Peter Aldous | 538 c685-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that intervention, and I agree. Councils across the country are doing what they can, but t...
David Morris | 538 c686-7 (Link to this contribution) I should declare an interest. I own commercial properties in Greater Manchester and I was a shopkeep...
Justin Tomlinson | 538 c691 (Link to this contribution) I would like to join the long list of Members who have congratulated my hon. Friend the Member for N...
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 538 c692 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has drawn on several things happening in his town of Swindon. Does he agree that they...
Eilidh Whiteford | 538 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing this timely debate. It is clear that ...
Philip Hollobone | 538 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) As the 21st speaker and one of the motion's proposers, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for ...
Nick Smith | 538 c664 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be called to speak, and I want to cover supporting town centres and the important is...
Bob Stewart | 538 c665 (Link to this contribution) In my Beckenham constituency, it is not just parking that is the problem. It is the fact that trying...
Eilidh Whiteford | 538 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) I would love to but I am conscious of the time and of the fact that lots of other Members want to sp...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 538 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my colleague and hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on securing thi...
Sheila Gilmore | 538 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) I did not really intend to speak in the debate, but I have found it interesting to hear many of the ...
Lyn Brown | 538 c668 (Link to this contribution) My local traders tell me that their biggest problem is getting our banks to lend to them. Does my ho...
Duncan Hames | 538 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) We do need to tilt that balance. That has been the thrust of my speech, and I think that the plannin...
John Stevenson | 538 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) This debate is extremely timely, as many of the issues that have been raised are of great relevance ...
Gregory Campbell | 538 c672 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we also need something to shift the balance from edge-of-town and...
Sheila Gilmore | 538 c669 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome my hon. Friend to the House? I do not think that cutting back in the way that cuts are...
Caroline Dinenage | 538 c669-70 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to take part in this important debate. As has been said, our town centres ...
Sheila Gilmore | 538 c668-9 (Link to this contribution) Lending is clearly one part of the problem, especially in relation to starting and then expanding a ...
Seema Malhotra | 538 c669 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend believe that the Government cuts will help stimulate consumer demand and support...
Mark Pawsey | 538 c695-6 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that in addition to providing a broader range of products, the supermarket...
Rory Stewart | 538 c694 (Link to this contribution) How does my hon. Friend suggest we communicate politically the value of market towns as opposed to c...
Martin Vickers | 538 c694 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made the point that I was just coming to, so I will skip a few points. However, w...
Rory Stewart | 538 c695 (Link to this contribution) That was a powerful concluding statement from my hon. Friend the Member for Cleethorpes (Martin Vick...
Martin Vickers | 538 c694-5 (Link to this contribution) That is a challenging question. The reality is that we have been trying to revitalise our towns. As ...
Justin Tomlinson | 538 c693 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I know that my hon. Friend highlighted a campaign on parking in his speech. Footfall...
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 538 c692 (Link to this contribution) In the light of many comments that we have heard on the Floor of the House today, did my hon. Friend...
Nigel Mills | 538 c694 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that when councils get the power to keep any increase in their local busin...
Martin Vickers | 538 c693-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall take a slightly less supportive position on the Portas report than my hon. Friend the Member...
Justin Tomlinson | 538 c692 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that excellent intervention. That is right. By giving young people the o...
David Rutley | 538 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on securing this debate on th...
Oliver Colvile | 538 c698-9 (Link to this contribution) We need to do everything we can to encourage as much footfall as possible in town centres. If I were...
Marcus Jones | 538 c698 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend comment, on the basis of the professional expertise that he has just outlined, o...
Oliver Colvile | 538 c698 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree, and licensed premises are also incredibly important. We now have more licensed premis...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 538 c697-8 (Link to this contribution) I am interested by what my hon. Friend says about universities and students. In my constituency we h...
Oliver Colvile | 538 c697 (Link to this contribution) I, too, pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing the debate and...
Rory Stewart | 538 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Of course, that is a central insight of this debate: a town centre is not simply about a...
Marcus Jones | 538 c696 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the ambience and experience of the town centre is extremely important...
Joan Ruddock | 538 c655 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that I have a private Member's Bill that establishes a separate use class f...
Jonathan Reynolds | 538 c649-50 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman, and I agree with his comments. In this case it is not just about traffic...
Andrew Bingham | 538 c649 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman, whose constituency neighbours mine, agree that one of the problems is getti...
Meg Hillier | 538 c654 (Link to this contribution) The main high street in my constituency was rocked by the riots on 8 August, but the effects of the ...
Phillip Lee | 538 c652-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) and the Backbench Business Committe...
Phil Wilson | 538 c651-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on securing this debate. The future of the to...
Mark Spencer | 538 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for being called to speak, and I compliment my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr...
Julian Sturdy | 538 c661 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making some powerful points. Is there not a big issue with the loss of parking in ...
Stuart Andrew | 538 c661 (Link to this contribution) I concur. It is important that where there are limited parking opportunities, we do everything possi...
Mark Menzies | 538 c657 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good example. I never thought that Fylde or Lytham St Annes would have anything to le...
Meg Hillier | 538 c656-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might be interested to hear that a scheme for young people was set up in a dereli...
Mark Menzies | 538 c657-8 (Link to this contribution) Our friends the banks of course have a role to play, but I wanted to focus on landlords, because, as...
David Simpson | 538 c657 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that as well as encouraging landlords, we need banks and finance house...
Stuart Andrew | 538 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in the debate, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (...
Diane Abbott | 538 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) In common with Members on both sides of the House, I welcome the Mary Portas review. I want to talk ...
Stuart Andrew | 538 c660 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with the hon. Gentleman. We can see the difference. The town centres are still st...
David Hamilton | 538 c660 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that many supermarkets act as hubs within towns? For years, my area ha...
James Gray | 538 c643 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief because a large number of hon. Members are trying to catch your eye, Mr Deputy Spea...
Jim Shannon | 538 c642 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman says, the Portas review is very important. It mentions America and France, but...
Chris Ruane | 538 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. We should look not just to England but to England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ire...
Mike Crockart | 538 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point, but we can hope that that problem will be addressed by the welcome widen...
Chris Ruane | 538 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Portas review, which is well researched. It makes 28 excellent recommendations, many o...
Roger Williams | 538 c640 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that another facility we would expect to find on our high streets is a bra...
Mike Crockart | 538 c639-40 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's debate and the opportunity to discuss this most important issue. When thinking abo...
Speaker | 538 c639 (Link to this contribution) Order. As so many Members are seeking to catch my eye, I shall reduce the time limit on speeches sti...
Ann Coffey | 538 c639 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. In a debate before Christmas, I talked about a unique offer in Stockport that comb...
Rehman Chishti | 538 c638 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that local authorities need show stronger leadership and come up with more...
Stephen Mosley | 538 c647 (Link to this contribution) I cannot speak for Romsey, but in Chester, that is exactly what we have done. That approach was iden...
Andrew Percy | 538 c647 (Link to this contribution) To give my hon. Friend a further example on the same point, this very day my own council, which we t...
Sarah Newton | 538 c645 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about getting more private investment into town centres, with big and small...
Derek Twigg | 538 c644-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) and the Backbench Business Committee on their...
Stephen Mosley | 538 c646 (Link to this contribution) I would like to speak about a modern, British high street success story, rare as that is. Despite th...
Derek Twigg | 538 c645-6 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree that it is important to get small and larger retailers working with the local com...
James Gray | 538 c643-4 (Link to this contribution) This is what happens when someone represents North Wiltshire for 15 years. In that speech, I went to...
Grant Shapps | 538 c720-2 (Link to this contribution) There were many detailed recommendations in the report, and I am looking with great interest at the ...
Marcus Jones | 538 c722 (Link to this contribution) When I originally thought about applying to the Backbench Business Committee to hold this debate, I ...
Grant Shapps | 538 c720 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Nothing did more damage to local areas than those hated regional spatial st...
Meg Hillier | 538 c720 (Link to this contribution) I hope the Minister gets to the betting shops issue, which is not a party political one—I lobbied th...
Duncan Hames | 538 c720 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend speaks with enthusiasm about the policies that the Government are introducing, ...
Stephen Williams | 538 c712-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I thank the hon. Gentleman—an MP for Greater Bristol—for that intervention. The other flaw in ...
Bob Stewart | 538 c714-5 (Link to this contribution) We have changed the way we shop. Fifty years ago mothers in Beckenham and other towns in my constitu...
David Amess | 538 c713-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on introducing this debate. I have ...
Derek Twigg | 538 c716 (Link to this contribution) My constituent Liz Howard, of the Curiosity Bookshop in Runcorn, has raised several issues with me, ...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 538 c715-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) and the Backbench Business Committ...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 538 c716 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, and I will turn to empty shops in a moment. Void rates are anoth...
Rory Stewart | 538 c716 (Link to this contribution) Does the shadow Minister acknowledge, however, that internet shopping can be immensely beneficial to...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 538 c716-7 (Link to this contribution) I do accept that point, which my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey) made very well ea...
Henry Smith | 538 c717 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Lady not acknowledge that the recently passed Localism Act 2011 gives real power to l...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 538 c717-8 (Link to this contribution) That is not the case if offices are taken out. Of course we all want more localism, but the Governme...
James Morris | 538 c704-6 (Link to this contribution) I join others in thanking the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing the debate. The real...
George Freeman | 538 c703-4 (Link to this contribution) I add my name to the list of those congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) ...
Guto Bebb | 538 c701-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on securing this debate, in which i...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 538 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) I was born and brought up in Dudley. Dudley has been somewhat disparaged this evening, but I want to...
Neil Carmichael | 538 c708-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me to speak, Madam Deputy Speaker, as we are about to have—and are having—a ve...
Jason McCartney | 538 c709-11 (Link to this contribution) I particularly relish the opportunity to speak in this debate because it really is the hot topic in ...
Mark Pawsey | 538 c706-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my constituency neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones), on stim...
Bob Russell | 538 c707-8 (Link to this contribution) Colchester's Daily Gazette today reported that the parent company of three shops in Colchester—Peaco...
Stephen Williams | 538 c711-2 (Link to this contribution) The whole debate so far has reminded me of when I was waiting to make my maiden speech, listening to...
Chris Skidmore | 538 c712 (Link to this contribution) As a fellow Bristol MP, I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman and I hope we might work together t...
Marcus Jones | 538 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely sensible point. For far too long, we have not thought about the pe...
Gary Streeter | 538 c630 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is right, although my daughter and son-in-law spend most of their time browsing no...
Ann Coffey | 538 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) We all want our town centres to be successful, and to provide employment and high-quality goods and ...
David Hamilton | 538 c662 (Link to this contribution) May I point out what happens when local authorities try to challenge big companies, such as Tesco? W...
Speaker | 538 c700 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is no injury time for football scores, I am afraid, and the hon. Gentleman has run out ...
Rory Stewart | 538 c696 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely. That is why the argument that we have to make is not an easy one. We have to mak...
Mark Menzies | 538 c656 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on securing today's debate and the ...
Meg Hillier | 538 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my right hon. Friend. I hope the Minister is listening to the debate and to ...
Jonathan Reynolds | 538 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in the debate today. I congratulate the hon. M...
Caroline Nokes | 538 c647 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that success and resilience are the result of empowering local people to m...
Stephen Mosley | 538 c647-8 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My local Labour party complained not just about that, but about the extra cars that were...
Grant Shapps | 538 c718-20 (Link to this contribution) I join virtually every colleague who has spoken in congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Nune...
Nick Smith | 538 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) I do. Local authorities and utility companies need to liaise much better. If parking becomes a prob...
Eilidh Whiteford | 538 c662 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point about the challenges and pressures on local authority legal d...
Duncan Hames | 538 c670-2 (Link to this contribution) Until recently, Chippenham council was at the forefront of a community-led plan to realise the poten...
Subjects
Cooperation
Betting shops
Parking
Small businesses
Taxation
Shops
Retail trade
Urban areas
Regeneration
Home shopping
Out of town shopping centres
High Street Review
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