Speeches by Cooper.

“Could you write to us with an indicative timetable?”

“Very good. Thank you.”

“Yes, indeed. We are going to come on to supported housing, and thank you for pre-empting that a little bit. Minister, in the questions we have asked you so far, we have been pointing to the parts of your portfolio that are variously on fire or smouldering. I am sorry to do that again, but the National Housing Federatio…”

“What would you like to see the Local Audit Office achieve in its first year?”

“A lot of supported housing has ended up in the third sector as a result of stock transfer in the early 2000s, hasn’t it? I suppose that some RPs may consider that it is not part of their core business, that perhaps some of what supported housing is doing is an adult social care function. We understand, as we have discu…”

“Thank you. The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act was passed in 2023, and Catherine, you have referred to the consultation. When do you expect that the Act will be fully implemented?”

“Fair enough. We will return to it. Thank you.”

“You may not be able to answer this question, but I will ask anyway. We have seen significant numbers of disclaimed local audits. This year, 45% were disclaimed. We would like that number to be zero. Do you have an aspirational timeline by which you expect to reach zero, and what are you doing as a Department to make su…”

“No doubt you will want to set the objectives. I accept your point that you do not wish to micromanage the work, and I do not think any of us would expect you to do so. But I would have thought that you would have a view on what you want them to achieve and that you would have communicated that to the candidate prior to…”

“Thank you, Minister, for your answer. I want to build a little bit more on the risk of services deteriorating as part of the creation of unitary authorities. I want to refer to Cheshire as part of this because, as you will be aware, as an almost-Cestrian, perhaps you could say; perhaps not—”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I will endeavour not to detain hon. Members longer than is necessary. I thank the Minister for her opening remarks and for clearly making the case for extending the submission deadline for chemicals registered for EU REACH. I agree that allowing more time fo…”

“More than 15 people have died in water-related incidents in the recent hot weather, including 17-year-old David Tita Junior, who sadly lost his life at Pickmere lake near Northwich last Tuesday. My thoughts, and the thoughts of the entire House, are with David’s family at this difficult time. The tragic incident highli…”

“The biggest single issue holding back economic growth in my constituency is the poor transport connections. In a non-mayoral area, we have found it difficult to access development funding to solve that problem. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government need to find a way of getting money into non-mayoral areas so t…”

“Would the hon. Gentleman like to reflect on the fact that what makes road transport more difficult is the massive pothole backlog that built up under his Government through the systematic underfunding of local government? Does he accept that this Government have put significant resources into fixing that?”

“Madam Deputy Speaker, you will of course be aware that the best summer attraction is the Northwich piña colada festival, which is enjoyed by boys and girls of all ages. I thank the Chancellor for her statement. The relief she is providing to the chemicals industry will be welcomed by sector businesses in Mid Cheshire. …”

“I thank the hon. Lady for giving way; she is being very generous with her time. She talks about green spaces. My constituency is in a section of the route that has now been cancelled, and is in the process of being removed from the Bill. We still have planning safeguards in place, and uncapped boreholes from ground inv…”

“Andrew Cooper, Member of Parliament for Mid Cheshire.”

“Do you think there is a risk that if Parliament ends up legislating for a social media ban at 16 we effectively end up letting social media companies off the hook, that we put a big check mark next to, “We have regulated social media now and we have protected our children from it”, but we ignore the fact that children …”

“We are very focused on what happens during the regulated period, what happens during a short campaign, but from what you are saying it sounds like—certainly what Marianna was talking about, with the rise in decline porn and the sum total of disinformation that is being put out online all the time—this is a build-up of …”

“The Government said that their objective is to preserve democracy for the next generation. From your experience, what do you think election mis- and disinformation will look like in a generation?”