Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)

The noble Baroness regularly talks about small and medium-sized enterprises. I think that every city across the country absolutely recognises the role of those businesses. The Government want to make

The noble Lord raises an important point about looking at all the impacts of housing development, and obviously education is a primary element of that. We know that the falling number of primary schoo

I am very grateful to my noble friend for raising this issue. As he will be well aware, in the spring we published the public consultation around the proposed new towns. The consultation closed early

I do not think it is my place to comment on proposed policies from the Opposition, but I repeat that we recognise the challenges. We work very closely with developers around these issues, and we are d

The noble Lord is referring to the target of building 1.5 million homes. We recognise that this is an ambitious target. We understand the stretch that is involved, but we are ambitious. We recognise t

I ask the noble Lord to be patient and wait for the mayor’s plan to be fully published to see the exact steps he is taking. We have already heard today of 10,000 extra homes because of the mayor’s int