Speeches by Powell.

“I have just one brief follow-up, Dan. Have you considered the issue in this market where you have a very small number of very large managing agents—including FirstPort—that are largely owned by overseas private equity? It has over 400,000 units and then every other competitor is relatively tiny. From your perspective, …”

“How can you assure us that that, which is part of your corporate family, is delivering good value for money?”

“Martin, one of the things that residents are concerned about is that they think that FirstPort gets at the pie from multiple angles. There is, for example, your in-house insurance company. Can you provide us with assurances that Knight Square Insurance, that you control, is providing good value for money?”

“How much do you use this company that is part of your bigger corporate structure?”

“The Imperial College healthcare NHS trust has the largest high-risk repair backlog in the country. The support from the Government estates safety fund is very welcome, but to solve this problem we ultimately need a new St Mary’s hospital. Will the Secretary of State join me in praising the work of the new three-year St…”

“15. What steps his Department is taking to tackle building maintenance backlogs in the NHS estate.”

“I strongly welcome this political agreement and congratulate the Foreign Secretary and the ministerial team on achieving it. I recently met Chief Minister Picardo, alongside my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton West (Phil Brickell), the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir Andrew Mitchell) and other members of t…”

“Will the Leader of the House join me in praising the Ukrainian St Mary’s trust, which in recent years dramatically scaled up its community school to serve more than 2,500 displaced children, and pioneered new trauma-sensitive methods of education? Will she consider making time to debate its proposal to set up the count…”

“13. What steps he is taking to support small businesses.”

“Small businesses on our high streets across my constituency, from Earl’s Court Road to Queensway, Notting Hill Gate and Portobello Road, are fed up of being blighted by candy shops, low-grade souvenir shops, Harry Potter shops and even barbershops, with accusations of VAT and business rates evasion and even links to mo…”

“Under the Conservatives, London’s housing crisis escalated to dangerous levels, with one child in every classroom in temporary accommodation. I warmly welcome not only the £39 billion for the affordable homes programme, but the 10-year rent deal, the new low interest loans, and something that I have been pushing for—I …”

“I want to ask about the compulsory purchase order reforms in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will they change the behaviour of landowners? Emily, I wonder whether we could start with you because you put in your written evidence that you would expect this to be challenged at the ECHR. What is the thinking behind t…”

“I am Joe Powell, the MP for Kensington and Bayswater.”

“Will, if I could come back to the uncontracted section 106, the Home Builders Federation said that there are 17,400 uncontracted homes. You cited price and late involvement as one factor. What else is preventing your members from taking up those homes?”

“What happens to those homes when they are not contracted?”

“I know that this is one of the biggest teams that the Met police have in operation, and of course it is right that they keep the funding in place until their work comes to fruition. I also agree with my hon. Friend that we must make sure that taxpayers’ money is no longer going to those companies. I hope the Minister c…”

“I welcome the sanctions against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, and the coalition that was built to exert maximum pressure. It is very significant, as the Government’s sanctions have been in other contexts around the world relating to human rights, corruption and other issues. Next week’s conference will be critical to, in the …”

“I thank the hon. Member for expressing his solidarity, and he is right. The finding of the public inquiry that reported in September was devasting: the simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable. I know we must respect the criminal investigation and avoid saying anything that jeopardises that proc…”

“I absolutely agree. I applaud the Prime Minister’s personal commitment to bring in the Hillsborough law. At the party conference in September last year, he said that the law is “for the sub-postmasters in the Horizon scandal. The victims of infected blood. Windrush. Grenfell Tower. And all the countless injustices over…”

“I thank the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee for her intervention. I completely agree with her, and the legacy must be the systemic change that I talked about. Many of the people who lost their lives in Grenfell were disabled, so I welcome the Government’s commitment to laying regulation…”