Departmental Spending

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will give way, but just once I think.

I will be very brief. Did my hon. Friend share my sense of déjà vu when councils were promised “w...

That leads into another area. The Select Committee has just produced a report about cladding and ...

Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?

Normally I would give way, but Madam Deputy Speaker is looking askance at me, so I think I had be...

We will start with a time limit of four minutes.

3.46 pm

I echo many of the comments made by the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts): local go...

It comes to something when the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee joins forces with my hon. F...

I welcome the support from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, a Departme...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) on securing this deb...

I am afraid that I have to reduce the time limit to three minutes in order to give everyone a cha...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), my colleague on the Select Co...

I pay tribute to the amazing work of councillors and council officials in St Albans City and Dist...

I am very aware that this is an estimates day debate, and I just want to briefly pick up the poin...

I would like to start, as others have, by praising our local authorities rather than burying them...

I should start by drawing the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial...

My contribution to today’s debate is on the eye-watering £1 billion spend by the Ministry on temp...

I was shocked to read in the evening Echo that, apparently, a new super council is to be created ...

It is a white elephant, but what is worse, it has been cooked up in private for two years by six ...

It is disgraceful. I want to know where this new super local authority would be and who would be ...

It is genuinely a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess). I want ...

I thank the Ministry for everything it has done during the pandemic to support so many businesses...

I first need to draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Inte...

I thank the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) for securing this important debate. I...

I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr ...

I thank everyone in the Chamber for their contributions, in particular my hon. Friend the Member ...

Not true.

I can actually prove it, Minister. They have been given no information or have been given informa...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) on securing today’s debate and...

rose—

As time is extremely tight, I had better make progress.

We have provided in total almost £2...

I thank the Minister for his comments, although I still think there are issues to be worked throu...