Speeches by Blake.

“On what are you basing your assessment of deliverability on the timing?”

“Dr Saleheen, I want to ask about some of the policy reforms, specifically on house building, and their impact on growth. The OBR assessed the impact of the house building policy changes on growth by looking at the overall grey belt land—land capacity—and at the supply of labour in the construction sector. It did not th…”

“Mr Johnson, would you like to make any remarks on the positive or negative impacts of house building on growth?”

“Dr Saleheen, have you been able to do some thinking about distributional effects?”

“On the distributional analysis, there are many families who are not in the right type of accommodation for their own income. That includes people who are paying private rent at a level that is disproportionate to their income and who really need to be in affordable housing. Have you been able to do any distributional a…”

“Thank you. That moves us neatly on to Ms Curtice. Just based on the new targets, your estimate was 0.06%. If the Government tilt towards travel-to-work areas, your estimate goes up to 0.13%. If they tilt towards cities, it goes up to 0.14%. Can you identify that drop-off from the OBR’s forecast? Due to the timing of th…”

“Which elements reduce the estimate from the OBR’s 0.2% to your 0.1%?”

“Are you able to determine whether it is more in terms of land supply or the capacity in the sector, or is it an aggregate of those two factors? Obviously, you can move capacity in the construction sector more easily than changing land supply.”

“I would like to understand in detail where we lost those 200,000 houses from the Government’s target. You have forecast 1.3 million.”

“Would it be fair to say that the impact on rents is the closest that you would get to it, and that the cost to local authorities hasn’t, at the moment, played into your modelling?”

“Yes.”

“In temporary accommodation costs.”

“And there is a particular element to the overall market. In London, £4 million a day is spent on temporary accommodation, which is private rented accommodation that local authorities lease. Is it possible for you to forecast and model the impact of a reduction in terms of positive growth, or is that—”

“So it is feasible that development corporations might be scored. In terms of decision making, they could move development forward.”

“Do you anticipate scoring the Planning and Infrastructure Bill?”

“May I pause you there? What happened between their saying, “Yes, we quite like this,” and your putting some numbers to it?”

“I want to come on to one of the other policy measures, which is around house building. Last time we were here, you said that you did not have enough detail to do the scoring, and now we are seeing a material, additional and durable impact on transactions and potential output. Professor Miles, could you talk us through …”

“I thank the Minister for her answer on the work the Government are doing with businesses to support people dealing with the consequences of the gig economy and road safety. Will she join with me in my work to ensure that the area around Baker Street is safer for residents, and will she work with me and residents around…”

“Since I last raised in this Chamber the negative impact of short-term lets in my constituency, Central London Forward has brought out new research estimating that 17,000 properties in my constituency are lost to short-term lets. It believes that a significant proportion of those is the result of individual owners ownin…”

“I am delighted to celebrate the work that Westminster city council does on tackling the challenges we face as a visitor economy. I am not sure how much Kensington and Chelsea council would appreciate me joining my hon. Friend’s campaign, but I certainly will, because it is for the best for the very centre of London. La…”