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3 Mar 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1681)

Good morning, Charmaine. In its comments after the draft Bill was published, the Residential Freehold Association said: “The inclusion of a ground rent cap in the draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill represents a wholly unjustified interference with existing property rights which if enacted, would seriously damag

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3 Mar 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1681)

I am Andrew Cooper, the Labour MP for Mid Cheshire and I declare an interest that I served on Cheshire West and Chester council with Katie Kendrick, who is one of the founders of the National Leasehold Campaign.

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24 Feb 2026Online Harm: Child Protection

The hon. Lady makes a passionate case and spoke movingly about the debate in her own family and how to protect her children. I recognise that. I have two young children and I think carefully about what they look at online. I worry about when they get older and how we will deal with that. The hon. Lady talks about age-g

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24 Feb 2026Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)

Many of us, on both sides of the House, are sympathetic to both new clauses. We heard very clearly in evidence sessions that the Computer Misuse Act, as it is today, has a chilling effect on the operation of the cyber-security industry in this country and on whether such companies want to locate here as opposed to othe

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23 Feb 2026Topical Questions

T8. The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has just published a report on social housing conditions, warning that just under 430,000 social homes are non-decent. Additional research shows that in the north, more than 100,000 social homes will reach end of life over the next 10 years. I am chairing the

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3 Feb 2026Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)

Q I have a question for Jill Broom. You were talking about the incident reporting requirements. Do you think the legislation strikes the right balance to encourage organisations to come forward when they have been attacked, so that the sector can learn from that and vulnerabilities can be patched out in other areas, or

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3 Feb 2026Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)

Q Carla, I want to come back on the potential for unnecessary over-reporting of incidents. I cannot speak for the Minister, but I am sure it is not his intention that every phishing email is reported. I was listening carefully to what you said about your proposed tiered approach, and I can imagine, say, a situation whe

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3 Feb 2026Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)

Q Stuart, as an MSP, you will be familiar with the fact that the large cloud service providers tend to allow you to live failover to different regions. By default you might be hosting in the UK region, but, depending on an outage, you might live failover to the European Union or to the US, depending on the cloud servic

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3 Feb 2026Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)

Q Stuart, you were nodding, which suggests you have something to contribute. Stuart McKean: It is an interesting cultural challenge. You want people to be open and to report incidents that are having an impact, but at the same time, if they report those incidents they might get fined, which could be economically challe

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3 Feb 2026Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)

Q With respect, Minister, that sounds like quite a lot of, “This is what I hope will happen and this is what I wish to happen.” How will you mandate that it happens? Does there need to be something in the legislation to ensure that there is a duty of candour between regulators? Kanishka Narayan: The Bill currently says

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3 Feb 2026Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)

Q We have heard evidence today about the appropriateness of individual sectoral regulators being responsible for this, versus a single regulator. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sectoral regulators were in favour of a sectoral approach, and we heard differing views from other people. The hon. Member for Bromsgrove already

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

Over the course of this inquiry, we have heard directly from people who have experienced temporary accommodation themselves, and some of them are still in it. Some of them have given evidence on being moved a long way out of their home borough, which has caused problems for their children accessing education. We have h

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

Are there any specific examples of good practice where any of the London councils are proactively looking at this accommodation to make sure that it is suitable?

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

Joseph, what about for the Greater Manchester authorities that make up the GMCA?

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

You make an interesting point about relying on feedback from the people who have been placed in temporary accommodation. We have heard evidence—indeed, we have heard a bit of it today—about reprisal evictions. When we did the roundtables before Christmas, we heard one example of somebody where it was made pretty clear

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

I am Andrew Cooper, the Member of Parliament for Mid Cheshire.

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

Stephen, what process do you have in Birmingham to ensure the safety and suitability of the properties you are using for temporary accommodation?

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

Paul, could you answer with respect to Newham?

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27 Jan 2026Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1154)

I am conscious of the time, so can I have a one-sentence answer from each of you? The Committee has previously recommended that the Government require councils to carry out mandatory inspections prior to a property first being used as temporary accommodation. Do you think that is a reasonable requirement for the Govern

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20 Jan 2026Mobile Phones and Social Media: Use by Children

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, particularly the action on mobile phones in schools. Harmful interactions can take place in online games and on instant messaging platforms, and we need to be alive to the risk of driving use to less well-regulated spaces and into virtual private networks. I am also concerned

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