Caroline Nokes MP: speeches 2024

Speeches

• 26 Jul 2024 · Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower · Hansard source

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  Order. I call Greg Smith.

• 26 Jul 2024 · Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower · Hansard source

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  I call Adrian Ramsay to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  Right hon. and hon. Members will be conscious that a number of people still wish to get in, so unfortunately I am going to have to put a six-minute time limit on speeches from the next speaker. Obviously, Members making their maiden speech will be exempt from that limit. I call Alberto Costa.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Alex Barros-Curtis to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I now call Jack Abbott to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Neil Duncan-Jordan to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Sureena Brackenridge to make her maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Lincoln Jopp to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Shaun Davies to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Blake Stephenson to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Chris Murray to make his maiden speech.

• 25 Jul 2024 · Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee · Hansard source

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  I call Ellie Chowns.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Flood Defences: West Worcestershire · Hansard source

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  I call the Minister, Emma Hardy.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I call Emily Darlington to make her maiden speech.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I call Sam Carling to make his maiden speech.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I would like to call the Front-Benchers at 20 minutes to 7. That gives us time to get in John Slinger for his maiden speech.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  Not mine; those of the hon. Lady.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I call Peter Swallow to make his maiden speech.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I call Johanna Baxter to make her maiden speech.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I call the Minister.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I call Dr Lauren Sullivan to make her maiden speech.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  I call Al Carns to make his maiden speech.

• 24 Jul 2024 · Education and Opportunity · Hansard source

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  Order. I now have to call the Front Benchers.

• 19 Jul 2024 · Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs · Hansard source

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  Absolutely. Infrastructure is key to making new developments work, but we need to take communities along with us, and to work hand in hand with them. In the debate, we have heard about villages up and down the country; they are the heart of our rural communities. Many villages in Romsey and Southampton North have worked incredibly hard to get their neighbourhood development plans in place, and held local referendums to confirm them, but now they are scared that that work will go to waste. Yet again, I seek reassurance from the Minister that that work will be upheld and cherished, because it will give us the scale and type of communities that we wish to see. When local people have been involved in the process, the Government should not turn around and tell them that their views are now irrelevant, and that a development will be imposed on them anyway. In the minute I have left, I wish to make a couple of further points. Over the last 48 hours, a number of issues have popped into my inbox. First and foremost, there is still a problem with the quality of new builds. When houses are thrown up at speed, people are sometimes left with significant build quality problems. One gentleman emailed me yesterday saying that he had to spend £350,000—fortunately, he had insurance covering that amount—to rectify the developer’s problems. In my constituency, we have sometimes seen houses torn down because the build quality was not good enough. Let us ensure that we do not see a repeat of that. While we are talking about new-build estates, can we solve the issue of estate management companies ripping off homeowners and not bringing estates up to the quality needed if the estate is to be adopted? [ Interruption. ] I can see that the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice (Emma Hardy), is taking that on her shoulders. She should believe me. I will be beating a path to her door, because there is much that still needs to be done to ensure that the housing that is delivered is of good enough quality for people to live in.