Member

If we are to have such a purpose clause, it needs to include an explicit reference to the importance of growth and, above all, to achieving a reduction in the delays in the planning system and in the construction of housing and infrastructure. It seems that year after year, these delays have got worse, not better, under all political parties. Speeding up the system would provide a one-off growth spurt, which nearly all of us across the House believe is urgently needed.