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Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021): Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and so on. If it will be some years before we designate the marine protected areas, how do we know that these should not be marine protected areas? Yet we may issue consents for development. We are where we are, to use that horrible phrase, but can interim measures be taken to ensure these should be marine protected areas in advance of the wider requirement to do so, which we understand...
Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (24 Sep 2019): Richard Boyd Barrett: ...'s retreat from providing the public housing on the scale needed to address the housing crisis. With that comes the need for a new body which will cost a significant amount of money. Given that we are where we are, to use that horrible phrase, I can see that we need the regulator. However, it is another body to be set up to manage a fragmented and inconsistent social housing sector....

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