Speeches by Curtis.

“I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has asked me to comment on the 14 years of Tory failure—years in which his party failed to grow the British economy and created a number of the problems that the country faces. While the shadow Chancellor made many good remarks in his opening speech, there was a little bit of amn…”

“I will make some comments about the unfairness of the council tax system in a moment. We can have a conversation about tax and spend, and there is a much wider conversation to have, but today’s debate focuses on a very specific cut in a very specific part of property taxation, and there is a problem with having that co…”

“I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his speech, and for his fight and campaign within his party in favour of abundance and against scarcity. I hope it is a fight that he can win, given the damage done by there not being enough of that attitude when the Conservatives were in power. Given that this debate cannot be isol…”

“Back to scarcity again.”

“I agree with the right hon. Gentleman about the importance of creating abundance in the housing market. Does he therefore think it was wrong for his party and the Prime Minister at the time to come to my constituency during the general election and campaign against the new homes being built there, which this country so…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for those comments, which show exactly the kind of consequences we are facing because of what has been happening to the Building Safety Regulator. If we are not building new social homes, we have to ask where they are going to be instead. Quite often, children aged one or two are stuck in tempora…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the performance of the Building Safety Regulator. It is an unrivalled pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting the debate and colleagues from four different parties for adding their names to the applicatio…”

“I will be as quick as I can. I welcome the Minister to her place and thank her for her response. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton South (Mike Reader) and the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Richard Tice) for bringing their experience from industry and talking about some of the things they bel…”

“Nic, can I ask a follow-up on that? Based on your work and experience, can you think of anything else that could prevent tenants from using these new powers, or difficulties that will come in the way of them?”

“I am Chris Curtis. I am Labour MP for Milton Keynes North.”

“How effective do you expect Awaab’s law will be to prevent social tenants from being left in hazardous conditions that harm their health?”

“Do you think that the new powers that are coming in might—”

“Richard, you said that the Government should tighten up their guidance to ensure that the law is applied consistently. How would you like to see the guidance changed in order to achieve this?”

“I appreciate some of the points the right hon. Member is making, but I would just note that one of the Conservative candidates running in a Milton Keynes constituency at the last general election worked for Global Counsel. It is interesting that the Conservatives have such complaints about this organisation when they w…”

“We know that temperatures will be rising, and we know that climate change will have impacts on the quality of the housing stock. What do you think we can do? How big a problem is this, and what are the main things we can do to mitigate the challenges that that will create? I will start with Millie, because I am guessin…”

“One of the policy solutions that is often suggested is that our planning system is too restrictive on allowing people to have air conditioning or air conditioning heat pumps in people’s homes. Do you think that that is one of the things that we should look at as we are reforming the planning system?”

“I am Chris Curtis, Labour MP for Milton Keynes North.”

“When you started, a very long time ago now, you mentioned listed properties being a particular problem. Do you think we need to have more flexibilities within the system so that properties being listed is not a barrier to making the changes that are required here or on the other problems that we have discussed?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I will not speak for too long, given that most of the debate’s key points have already been made, so hopefully that will help with the average speaking time that you are aiming for. I, too, thank the Petitions Committee for this debate, and I thank my hon. …”

“I completely agree. Diversity is at the heart of Milton Keynes. We are a proud city that shows how people from many backgrounds can come together to enrich and strengthen our community. We have seen at first hand how the many people who have come to our city from Hong Kong have added to our local economy. The previous …”