Speeches by Pennycook.
Every Hansard contribution by Matthew Pennycook this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 41–60 of 1,934 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “To go back to Mr Mohindra’s question—he has left so does not get to hear me opine on this—this is one of many things I am really proud of. It was a previous Government commitment to introduce Awaab’s law, and I fully recognise what they did to make that initial commitment, but we have stepped up and made sure that we a…” | 329 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “Let me take those in turn. We have feedback and engagement with local authorities but we do not have data from individual local authorities or registered providers as to the precise caseload they have and so on. We will get national-level data on how much is coming through the ombudsman and the courts if it has to go t…” | 328 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “We are seized by the urgency as well. It is worth pointing out a slightly bigger-picture conceptual argument that I want to register with the Committee. The new decent homes standard requires a landlord to address category 1 hazards. Over time we want to have that standard driving up overall standards, as the previous …” | 113 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “That is a really fair question. Emma or Jo might want to talk about the grants that are available to adapt homes. In an ideal world we would get to 100% up-to-date local plan coverage, on the basis of new-style local plans, with the final proposals in the framework. If we take forward M4(2), over time in theory you wou…” | 178 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “I may be mistaken but I could swear I have answered the Committee on this point before. I will do so again.” | 22 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “Yes, put very simply.” | 4 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “In a quid pro quo lease?” | 6 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “You are confusing a proposal from us with evidence seeking. As I said, we have evidence that negotiated quid pro quo leases exist, but we do not know how prevalent they are. We are seeking evidence on whether any exemption for them is justified given their nature. We are not proposing a roll-out of quid pro quo leases …” | 62 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “That is the type of issue we are trying to get more evidence on, and why we have had to go out for a further technical consultation to try to get more, so that we have a basis to make a rational decision on.” | 44 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “Just to supplement that, the bar for an exemption has to be extremely compelling in my mind. Let us see the evidence as to whether or not this type of lease meets that bar.” | 34 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “We do not need a wholesale, fresh consultation on the ground rent cap, just this brief technical exercise to try to get a bit more evidence and supplement what little we got through the PLS process in terms of specifically negotiating quid pro quo leases.” | 45 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “That is a tough question. I hear bandied about fairly often that as a Government we came into office without a plan.” | 22 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “I am extremely proud of the measures we have taken to boost rates of house building over the past two years. We have seen some incredibly encouraging green shoots. I thought this might come up. Let me cite some evidence we have to date. To the year ending March 2026, outlined planning applications were up 54% from a ye…” | 168 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “I have lost track of the number of times I have gone around this with the Committee. There is a very clear measure of how we are performing against our 1.5 million homes target across the Parliament, and that is net additional completions. Those are publicly recordable figures and you will be able to judge them on it. …” | 206 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “Let me take those in two parts, with a caveat on the last one that I am not the Minister responsible for building regulations specifically, but I am more than happy to talk to them. Again, there is a slightly complex picture, which I can hopefully explain in a way that the Committee can follow. When I go back to the ge…” | 519 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “You can encourage in that manner. I will pass it on to the Building Safety Minister and Andy Roe at the BSR.” | 22 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “We have not announced a timeline for the completion of that technical review.” | 13 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “Again, I will bring in Jo and Emma to add some detail. We are very confident they will be able to comply. We have given them the time to comply and are providing lots of detailed guidance to help them to roll it out. Again the regulator has a role in terms of SRS, MEES and those consumer standards coming through. We ar…” | 85 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “I will be absolutely honest with the Committee.” | 8 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 42) “Yes. The Department will not do that for each of the many hundreds of local authorities across the country but it expects that as part of plan development.” | 28 |