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I restarted my Hackney doorstep surgeries this week where inadequate and overcrowded housing continues to dominate as a top issue. I’ll keep pressing the Government to build more decent and properly affordable homes.

The Public Accounts Committee published a report on zero-emission vehicles. We called out the Government for, once…

Thank you Sustainable Hackney for an interesting discussion with lots of expert insight.

I'll keep pressing the Government to spell out the detail behind the path to Net Zero.

If levelling up means anything, it should not mean levelling down or keeping people in Hackney squeezed into inappropriate and overcrowded accommodation.

See me press the Prime Minister to build more good-quality, properly affordable housing in Hackney and in London. 

See my full speech here.

The Government set out its legislative agenda in the Queen's Speech this week. I spoke in the debate that followed and challenged the Government for, again, failing to fix the long-term issues it keeps avoiding. 

There was next to nothing on social care but plenty of ideas on how to make…

See this excellent video from St Mungos's on how we can be #HomelessWise

There's two easy ways you can help people sleeping rough:

1). Smile

2). Contact Streetlink (website here)