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Lord Fuller (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

Before the Minister sits down, the clock says 10 minutes and for six of those minutes she was explaining how simple it was going to be. It took six minutes to explain that simplicity, with a cat’s cradle of district, county and combined authorities with different areas, strategic prioritisation with local plans and so forth. I wonder whether the Minister might like to reflect that, when she talks about simplification, all I heard was complexity. At the same time, the Government are disbanding the teams currently trying to get 300,000 houses a year built. I wonder whether the Government need to reflect on their own priorities. Do we throw planning up in the air and start again, or doing we carry on and just try to get these homes built? I do not think they can do both at the same time.

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