Fixing our broken planning system
Yesterday, the Conservative Party announced radical new plans to fix our “broken” planning system. Our plans would give local people a real say in how to shape their area whilst making sure that the...
View ArticleReforming Labour’s failed housing policies
This week I took part in a lively debate with Housing Minister John Healey. The event was hosted by the Home Builders Federation and as you can imagine the audience was keen to learn how the next...
View ArticleReforming the welfare system
At the DWP, we have been targeting three separate areas to transform our broken, outdated welfare system and encourage a self sufficient and confident attitude that will be so crucial in helping those...
View ArticleReforming Labour’s housing benefit system
Our housing reforms have been in the news over the last couple of weeks. We inherited a housing benefit structure that was clearly running out of control, costing more (at £21bn) than the police and...
View ArticleOur welfare reforms will make work pay
At the election, the Conservatives made a promise to you to get Britain working. Now we are delivering on that promise. This Government is on the side of people who want to get ahead. The plans we have...
View ArticleHousing Benefit has spiralled out of control
People may remember the prominent Housing Benefit fraud case in my constituency, Ealing Central and Acton. A former asylum seeker ended up living with her family in a £1.2 million house, subsidised by...
View ArticleCreating sustainable new communities
It will be a personal pleasure to see the Localism Bill through to the statute book. As a very new backbench MP in the last Parliament I was delighted to be asked to pull together a proposal for reform...
View ArticleMaking homes warmer and cheaper to run
Yesterday saw the start of the Committee stage of the new Energy Bill in the House of Commons, which will bring further details of the biggest home improvement programme since the Second World War....
View ArticleSimplifying Labour’s planning rules
Those of you who have attempted to navigate our planning system will testify that it is slow, bureaucratic and practically inaccessible to anyone other than lawyers, town hall officials and NGOs....
View ArticleWhy we must continue to resist calls for a Mansion Tax
The idea of a Mansion Tax continues to cause quite a stir around Westminster, but as I have been out across the country campaigning for the county council elections, it is ordinary families who are...
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