Biography
Matthew Pennycook has engaged extensively on housing and planning issues through 29 debate speeches, with particular focus on social housing waiting lists, health inequalities, and the relationship between planning policy and public health outcomes. His contributions span technical discussions of planning reform and environmental protections to broader advocacy for council housing as a national asset and concerns about vulnerable populations in temporary accommodation. While topics assigned include health and social care areas, his recent Hansard extracts show engagement primarily concentrated on housing, planning policy, and related social determinants of health rather than direct health service delivery issues.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Yet, as we all know, far too many families in need across the country are languishing on social housing waiting lists, struggling in the private rented sector or in expensive temporary accommodation as a result, and driving up rents and the housing benefit bill in the process.”
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists53rd of 53420.5
- Public health & prevention72nd of 68818.0
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Adult social care & reform61st of 3769.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Elderly care & frailty30th of 2366.0
- Health inequalities80th of 2886.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
What they’ve said
“…Such spaces are vital community assets that provide significant benefits, not only for physical and mental health but to mitigate growing challenges, such as the urban heat island effect.”
National Planning Policy Framework: Proposed Health Inequality Duty · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“If the right hon. Gentleman would not mind sending me details of the two cases in question, I am more than happy to sit down and have a conversation with him about how he thinks those decisions interact with the proposals set out in the recent consultation.”
National Planning Policy Framework: Proposed Health Inequality Duty · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I will happily direct my counterpart in Northern Ireland to the Government’s response when we publish it in due course, having analysed those two consultations. Where private arrangements exist, they must be transparent and properly regulated.”
New Developments: Unadopted Roads and Public Amenities · 2026-05-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The multidisciplinary teams that have been established in the local authority, across housing enforcement, adult social care and housing benefit teams, have strengthened understanding and allowed targeted action to take place.”
Supported Exempt Accommodation: Birmingham · 2026-02-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…rn is less about the instances he described and more about the 1.3 million people languishing on social housing waiting lists and, in particular, the 170,000 children who are today homeless and living in temporary accommodation. We have to build more homes.”
Planning Reform · 2025-12-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
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