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Sustainable Communities Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 19 January 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Nick Hurd. The answering member was Phil Woolas.
Sustainable Communities Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on division (175 to 17). Bill committed to a Public Bill Committee.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

455 c1037-105 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Tobias Ellwood | 455 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend comment on the role of regional assemblies in the planning process? In Bournemou...
Lindsay Hoyle | 455 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Just to let you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the Government Whips are not as effective as Mrs. Hoyle, s...

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Nick Hurd | 455 c1041 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to both the hon. Gentleman and Mrs. Hoyle for that intervention. I want to return to ...
Greg Clark | 455 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm that his constituents find it bizarre that while councillors can oppose ...
Lindsay Hoyle | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) May I give the hon. Gentleman some good news? Councillor Catherine Hoyle put a motion before Chorley...
Speaker | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is Friday morning, but the hon. Gentleman should still use the correct parliamentary langu...
Lindsay Hoyle | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I just want to let you know that—[Laughter.]
Speaker | 455 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Order. I shall just give the hon. Gentleman a moment to reflect before he continues.
Barry Sheerman | 455 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I was very fond of Eric Forth, but I was not fond of the way in which he often talked out very good ...
Mark Francois | 455 c1043 (Link to this contribution) It will take fewer than 62,000 letters.
Nick Hurd | 455 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I am not tempted to pursue the line of inquiry recommended to me. The short answer to the hon. Gentl...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) I understand and respect my hon. Friend’s point. I should make clear that the Bill is not at all pre...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I sat through many of the late Eric Forth’s speeches, as he sat through many of mine. I think that t...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted by my hon. Friend’s intervention. If he pries into the innards of the Bill, he will s...
Tim Loughton | 455 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. In dealing with the important subject of democr...
Speaker | 455 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am happy to allow the hon. Gentleman to respond to the intervention, but I do not want the ...
Wayne David | 455 c1072 (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes a very good point. One of the concerns inherent in the Bill is that it puts treme...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Staying with clause 6(1), the problem with the clause is that it is drafted on the assumption that t...
Wayne David | 455 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Once again, my hon. Friend makes very good points. In order to make some progress, I would like to ...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1073 (Link to this contribution) There is provision missing from the Bill for a conciliation service for disputes between not only lo...
Speaker | 455 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Order. I rather think that that is not directly to do with the subject of our debate, whose general ...
Wayne David | 455 c1072 (Link to this contribution) While I am on my feet, I will simply make this point. The debate that we have had so far has been a ...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I have studied clause 6 with particular interest. Most of us agree with the Bill’s intention, but on...
Wayne David | 455 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I hope that that would not happen, but the scenario is unfortunately a distinct possibility. We shou...
Wayne David | 455 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely true. Speaking as someone involved in serious politics, I learned early on that p...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1075 (Link to this contribution) Is not the purpose of taking interventions that, if properly answered and debated, they may obviate ...
Wayne David | 455 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. We are having a debate, are we not? The essence of a debate is not simply to have set-pi...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I just want to point out that the hon. Gentleman has now been speaking for longer than I did. In the...
Wayne David | 455 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I would point out that I have probably taken more interventions than any other Member who has spoken...
Shona McIsaac | 455 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for raising the important role of parish councils. There are approximately 8,...
Wayne David | 455 c1075 (Link to this contribution) That is a helpful intervention. I will leave the answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Llanelli (N...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1074 (Link to this contribution) Clause 3(1)(d) contains the Bill’s only reference to young people—"““residents under 25 years old.””...
Wayne David | 455 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree. The youth project that I helped to establish was called Young Voice and is now called Funky...
Wayne David | 455 c1074 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may well be right and I am sure that his point is worth considering. One of my conce...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) Conservative Members laugh, but, as someone who spent 10 years on a city council and had to work clo...
Wayne David | 455 c1068 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to the logic of that argument, which I do not accept for a very good reason.
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1068 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with that argument, but it is our job on Second Reading to flag up shortcomings...
Wayne David | 455 c1068 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point, although I do not intend to get side-tracked on parliamentary procedure. My ar...
David Drew | 455 c1068 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to have missed the early part of my hon. Friend’s remarks, and I am sorry that he does no...
Wayne David | 455 c1068 (Link to this contribution) That is not made at all clear in the Bill. Running through it is an extremely bureaucratic process, ...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1068-9 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill also potentially dismisses democratically elected local gove...
Wayne David | 455 c1069 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point that serves to reinforce the muddle that runs through the Bill. Th...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1069 (Link to this contribution) Without wanting to get into the internal politics of Wales, what does my hon. Friend think would hap...
Wayne David | 455 c1069 (Link to this contribution) That is a good question. It would be extremely unhelpful if we knew. We have seen examples in the re...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) A similar issue arises in relation to the London Assembly and the London Mayor, who were elected aft...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1070 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is developing an interesting line of argument. Clause 6(1) refers to a local authorit...
Dawn Butler | 455 c1070 (Link to this contribution) We all agree that we must work to achieve safe, healthy and sustainable communities. The Road Traffi...
Wayne David | 455 c1071 (Link to this contribution) With all due respect, I am not a lawyer; all I have is a degree of common sense. If something is sub...
David Howarth | 455 c1071 (Link to this contribution) That is something that the Secretary of State would have to take into account in deciding to reject....
Wayne David | 455 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I do not know what the solution is, because I did not draft the Bill. It would be interesting i...
David Howarth | 455 c1071 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is empowered to do that under clause 4(3) anyway. Clause 6 is not at all uncl...
Wayne David | 455 c1071 (Link to this contribution) With all due respect, devolution does not mean that, so let me provide an example of what it does me...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1071 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that what we have just heard is precisely what we have come to expect from...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1054 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. The Bill particularly encourages the participation of groups who do not...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1054 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has just made an important point. My constituency is diverse, with people from many et...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. If the Government allow the Bill to go into Committee, ...
Mark Williams | 455 c1055 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a strong case. Is not the merit of the measure its holistic approach to communi...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1055 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, which demonstrates that people who campaign against the closure o...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1055 (Link to this contribution) I agree that there is consensus on many of the ideas in the Local Government and Public Involvement ...
Wayne David | 455 c1055 (Link to this contribution) I agree with many of the points that the hon. Lady has made, but given the consensual nature of the ...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1056 (Link to this contribution) Many and varied issues were raised by people at public meetings, as they have been on the Floor of t...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1056 (Link to this contribution) The issue of second homes is contentious in many small villages, especially in rural areas. Some peo...
Jim Dowd | 455 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments. The hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) was ki...
David Drew | 455 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for expressing much more adequately than I can why the Bill is important and ...
Greg Knight | 455 c1050 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this is a quite unusual private Member’s Bill, in that it has sup...
David Drew | 455 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) I hope that that will not be necessary. This is a listening Government and I hope that the Minister,...
John Leech | 455 c1053 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that difficult meetings are often about closures? The whole point of the B...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I, too, wish to congratulate the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) on making the most of ...
David Drew | 455 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree. It is a case of use it or lose it. It is no good if the parish or town council decides to p...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1052 (Link to this contribution) I did a little bit to help preserve small shops in my private Member’s Bill on Christmas day trading...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that if we are to consult local communities it is important that we have th...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The key problem is not necessarily opposing closures or proposin...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1046-7 (Link to this contribution) I am now straining to retain cross-party consensus on the Bill as I am receiving a lecture on the re...
Joan Ruddock | 455 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his Bill, and I have attended the debate to support it. I have ...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1047 (Link to this contribution) That point crystallises problems in many Members’ constituencies. What the hon. Lady describes I rec...
Anne Main | 455 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I completely sympathise and empathise with the views that the hon. Gentleman expressed about heated ...
David Drew | 455 c1049-50 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the excellent speech of the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd). I...
David Drew | 455 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I accept that. We can talk about different parts of the United Kingdom facing slightly different pro...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1047-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has hit the nail on the head, and it allows me to pass on to the next part of my ...
John Hemming | 455 c1047 (Link to this contribution) The Bill in many ways accepts what the Government have been trying to do in respect of local strateg...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1048-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that extremely helpful intervention. I am delighted to confirm that that ...
Mark Francois | 455 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his courtesy in giving way; he is making a good speech on a good Bill and...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he has said. I am sorry if I have given any such impression, for...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that that spending would include area-based initiatives, which are d...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1046 (Link to this contribution) I obviously support those sentiments behind the Bill, but I have concerns about some of the practica...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1046 (Link to this contribution) To be honest, I will need to think that issue through more clearly. The value of the exercise contai...
Robert Key | 455 c1046 (Link to this contribution) I understand that my hon. Friend’s Bill is not prescriptive, but how permissive is it? For example, ...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1045-6 (Link to this contribution) I completely understand the hon. Gentleman’s point. The Bill is not prescriptive at this stage, and ...
Martin Horwood | 455 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his speech, and on promoting this Bill. Will the process...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful intervention; it is important that I confirm that that is at...
Anne Milton | 455 c1045 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned participation; that is the key element of the Bill. Many communities are co...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1044-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her helpful intervention. I am happy to confirm that important point. We a...
Wayne David | 455 c1066 (Link to this contribution) It is not my intention to make partisan or sectarian points, as I wish to be fair and even-handed. I...
Wayne David | 455 c1066 (Link to this contribution) I will be fair. I quoted the example of Caerphilly earlier and I quote it again. Tesco, which I assu...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1066 (Link to this contribution) To clarify the position, big supermarket chains and retailers with multiple outlets are members of t...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1066 (Link to this contribution) It is strange to hear a member of the Tory Front-Bench team attacking multinationals, Tesco and the ...
Wayne David | 455 c1067 (Link to this contribution) I shall respond first to the hon. Gentleman’s point about the Federation of Small Businesses. I assu...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) To clarify matters, I have met the head of policy at the Federation of Small Businesses and she has ...
Wayne David | 455 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) Precisely. My hon. Friend pre-empts my conclusion. That is one of the inherent contradictions in the...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1067 (Link to this contribution) I refer to clause 6, dealing with approval of local spending plans. Subsection (1) states:"““A local...
Martin Caton | 455 c1068 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case about specific details in the Bill. Those should be address...
Wayne David | 455 c1065 (Link to this contribution) It is only £7.50, and a bargain at the price.
Wayne David | 455 c1064 (Link to this contribution) I repeat that I wrote it myself.
Dawn Butler | 455 c1065 (Link to this contribution) I, too, signed that early-day motion, but does my hon. Friend not agree that we should wait until Si...
Wayne David | 455 c1065 (Link to this contribution) I do not know about the press release, but certainly, like most Members, I agree with the principles...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1065 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is about to say that he does not support the Bill, can he explain why, in the ...
Wayne David | 455 c1065 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not, but if my hon. Friend has a word with me after the debate, I am sure that I can arran...
Wayne David | 455 c1065-6 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point, and it takes me neatly to my next point. I have referred to the written s...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1066 (Link to this contribution) Who exactly are the members of the British Retail Consortium?
Wayne David | 455 c1062 (Link to this contribution) To return to a point that I made earlier, much of our debate today is genuine discussion of an issue...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 455 c1061-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s points, and he gives a good example of how answerability coul...
Wayne David | 455 c1063 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the Bill’s sponsors. As has been pointed out, an impressive cross-party co...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 455 c1062-3 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly important that consensus about the merits of localism is reached between the two sid...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1061 (Link to this contribution) May I offer the hon. Gentleman a little advice? He should have read the Bill before the debate becau...
Andrew Gwynne | 455 c1061 (Link to this contribution) May I give the hon. Gentleman a further example of good practice when consulting local people? Recen...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1063-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s constituency produces very fine cheese, too. My constituency is similar to his, as ...
Wayne David | 455 c1064 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Politics is not always about people coming together and agreeing,...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1064 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend identify the author of that book?
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 455 c1059 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have read the Bill, as I have. Clause 1(2) states that sustainability may be...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1059 (Link to this contribution) I share some of the hon. Gentleman’s frustrations and irritations about primary care trusts and have...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 455 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to support the Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd). I ...
Nia Griffith | 455 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I am here to support the Bill. I am delighted that the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) ...
Anne Milton | 455 c1060 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, regardless of whether decisions on local NHS services could be inclu...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 455 c1060-1 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. It is interesting that although the concept of patient choice ...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely worried about what the hon. Gentleman is saying. We are hampered by the fact that the...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 455 c1060 (Link to this contribution) I am not saying that at all. I am addressing the principle of the sustainability of local communitie...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1101 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that Stockport is the same, but the hon. Gentleman will know better than me about that.
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1098-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. My real concern about the Bill is the position of mi...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1099 (Link to this contribution) The point that my hon. Friend makes about the cohesion of communities is a strong and powerful examp...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1099 (Link to this contribution) We are in a Second Reading debate and the Minister, who has obviously done serious work on the Bill,...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1099-100 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is correct. The Bill does not mention that issue, but this is a good opport...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) That shows my hon. Friend’s commitment to the localist agenda. My hon. Friend talked about the diff...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The innovative, new IKEA stores in Ashton and north-east London were a direct result of our ...
Mark Hunter | 455 c1101 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will not be surprised that I want to take him up on his point about IKEA. He cites thos...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1103 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think that it is. The right hon. Gentleman made the important point in his speech that money ...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1103 (Link to this contribution) Are not those changes structural, rather than an attempt to engage people and to increase participat...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1101-3 (Link to this contribution) It would be unwise for me, on behalf of the hon. Gentleman’s constituents—let alone mine—if I were t...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1103 (Link to this contribution) There was a time at which some local authorities acted in a lunatic fashion. Although I do not belie...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) The analysis must be right before that issue can be addressed. The hon. Lady described the process i...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1104 (Link to this contribution) rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put. Question put, That the Questio...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1094 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his campaign and on his ingenuity. I hope that the House will a...
Daniel Kawczynski | 455 c1094 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for the time that he is giving me to raise the issue of a referendum i...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1094-5 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I shall make some progress. As I hope that I have made clear, th...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1094 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman thinks that I am not embracing that enthusiasm. The Government shou...
Tim Farron | 455 c1094 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will recall that, before the last general election, the Deputy Prime Minister ran a con...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1095-6 (Link to this contribution) I would add to the right hon. Gentleman’s premise the right of Parliament, as well as national Gover...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I understand the Minister’s desire to make progress, but I think it important for us to be clear abo...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1098 (Link to this contribution) If the House will allow me, I will first put forward some arguments and then take as many interventi...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1097 (Link to this contribution) Potentially, the Bill could do that. Its proponents understandably say that there needs to be greate...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1097 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that the Bill would add to the draconian powers of the Secret...
David Drew | 455 c1097 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Minister might recall that we had a debate in this Chamber which by pure chance—b...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1096-7 (Link to this contribution) Of course I can comply with that; my hon. Friend represents the constituency of Cleethorpes and I kn...
Shona McIsaac | 455 c1096 (Link to this contribution) I wish to ask some questions about the powers of the Secretary of State. Under the Bill, there would...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I am, I hope, an entirely reasonable Minister. My statement that both I and the Government want to a...
Greg Knight | 455 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He started out with some warm words, but in the last f...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I will now take some interventions. First, I give way to the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (M...
Anne Main | 455 c1093 (Link to this contribution) On the Government’s duty to consult, does the Minister have any sympathy with the views of my consti...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1093-4 (Link to this contribution) As elected representatives, we all recognise the hon. Lady’s point. It is always desirable to implem...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1092-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me start with the traditional, but nevertheless sincere, congratulations to the hon. Member for ...
Lord Benyon | 455 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) As always, my right hon. Friend puts it so much more eloquently than I could, and I entirely agree w...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1093 (Link to this contribution) Indeed! Our proposals to increase devolution are prominent in the Government’s Bill through the pro...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the hon. Gentleman’s point about justice being dispensed at a local level, but can...
Lord Benyon | 455 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution) The point that derives from that is that it is easy for people on higher incomes to travel to purcha...
Lord Benyon | 455 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I certainly can, and I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to do so. Cla...
Stephen Williams | 455 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) As a Member—possibly the only one on the Opposition Benches today—who represents a large city, Brist...
Lord Benyon | 455 c1090 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I echo those sentiments with reference to my own constituency...
Lord Benyon | 455 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) I associate myself with the concluding remarks, and many others, of the hon. Member for Hove (Ms Bar...
Celia Barlow | 455 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I congratulate that administration on its initiative. An example in my constituency is ...
Dawn Butler | 455 c1087 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that councils do not necessarily need action plans to begin to regenerate ...
Celia Barlow | 455 c1087 (Link to this contribution) Those initiatives have everything to do with the Bill. I accept that the hon. Gentleman is anxious t...
Andrew Pelling | 455 c1087 (Link to this contribution) What does this have to do with the Bill?
Celia Barlow | 455 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Although our high streets in Hove and Portslade are extremely vibrant a...
Martin Linton | 455 c1086 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend have the problem that I have in my constituency, where there is enormous concern...
Speaker | 455 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has made his point.
Lord Beamish | 455 c1079 (Link to this contribution) It is quite convenient for the right hon. Gentleman to forget history. Was it not a Conservative Gov...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be able to speak at this stage of the debate. I had intended to try to do so at a l...
Wayne David | 455 c1077-8 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious of the fact that my hon. Friend is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. [...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1077 (Link to this contribution) It would be the district council.
Lord Beamish | 455 c1077 (Link to this contribution) In that case, the county tier will be ignored. One tier or the other is bound to be cut out. Does th...
Wayne David | 455 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I can only assume that that is what is intended by the Bill’s supporters, or at least some of them. ...
Wayne David | 455 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Wales has a unitary system, but in my experience in England today and in Wales before local governme...
Lord Beamish | 455 c1077 (Link to this contribution) According to clause 11, for the purposes of local community allocation"““‘principal council’ has the...
Speaker | 455 c1076 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that that will do for the time being.
Wayne David | 455 c1076 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for reinforcing the point that I have made. Having referred to the Go...
Wayne David | 455 c1076 (Link to this contribution) As I have indicated, I am trying to make progress with my speech. I am also, however, trying to be c...
Celia Barlow | 455 c1085 (Link to this contribution) The United Kingdom is a nation of rich diversity. We can be proud that its regions, towns and cities...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman has not taken advice about the Bill. The Bill has been drafted to ...
Andrew Gwynne | 455 c1086 (Link to this contribution) This point ties in with the response that I received from the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr....
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I have a horrible shock for the hon. Lady. If local people see that their local council, unlike the ...
Andrew Gwynne | 455 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I have three examples in the Stockport part of my constituency of where the council has ignored the ...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1083-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a serious point in that there are cases in which particular groups of peopl...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I will now, with hesitation, give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I want to return to the point about clause 6. I think that the right hon. Gentleman was advancing th...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1082-3 (Link to this contribution) With some hesitation, I may in due course give way to the hon. Gentleman, but only after I have comp...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1082 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1082 (Link to this contribution) I will in a moment. It is open to the Minister not to spend any time at all vetoing plans. There is...
Shona McIsaac | 455 c1082 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is hard of hearing, but I said a moment ago that I accept t...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. To be fair, the Government are moving towards filling that hole in ...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1080 (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting and serious question that I will reply to in two ways. First, yes, my hon...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. He reminds me that I spoke to the people o...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I have not done so personally, but supporters of the campaign have discussed the matter extensively ...
Hywel Williams | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that I have been contacted by a large number of constituents—as, I am su...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point well. The issue of public transport and rural ...
Wayne David | 455 c1040 (Link to this contribution) As the Bill applies to Wales as well as England, has the hon. Gentleman had any consultation with th...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1037-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill will make the Government more resp...
David Heath | 455 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is a crossover between such environmental concerns and conc...
Wayne David | 455 c1070 (Link to this contribution) As I said, the principle of devolving powers is now widely accepted. It is significant that the Cons...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1097 (Link to this contribution) I remember the debate that has been mentioned very well because I arrived for a 30-minute debate but...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He has been speaking for almost an hour, and he has made some very ...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1041 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to take that intervention, not only because my hon. Friend is a well-known champion o...
Nick Hurd | 455 c1041-2 (Link to this contribution) I respect your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, Ea...
Dawn Butler | 455 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for being so generous in giving way. Is he aware that in my Brent constituenc...
Wayne David | 455 c1070 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Devising structures and processes that will inevitably create con...
Wayne David | 455 c1066 (Link to this contribution) I agree. That is the point that I was making with regard to Tesco, and it applies to other stores as...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 455 c1061 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to have to disagree rather strongly with the hon. Gentleman, but that attitude is tantamo...
Julia Goldsworthy | 455 c1056-8 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, as other Members want to speak. It is easy to identify the problems t...
Phil Woolas | 455 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman, which means that I must then give way to my hon. Friend...
Oliver Letwin | 455 c1091 (Link to this contribution) There is another answer to the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones). Under the Bill, if a local ...
Wayne David | 455 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) Neither of those questions is best put to me. I have no easy answer to either of them. I should like...
Andrew Dismore | 455 c1076 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made the important point that we should be debating the principles of the Bill. A...
Speaker | 455 c1076 (Link to this contribution) Order. It would be helpful if the hon. Gentleman now made progress with his speech.
Andrew Pelling | 455 c1076 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman be able to yield the Floor before the end of this debate so that the views o...
Celia Barlow | 455 c1086 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and I congratulate his local authority on the measures that he mentions...
Andrew Pelling | 455 c1042 (Link to this contribution) What is so potent and powerful about my hon. Friend’s Bill is that it will turn planning topsy-turvy...
Martin Linton | 455 c1090 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that in many cases inner city high streets are the new villages, becau...
Shona McIsaac | 455 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I am a little concerned about something that the right hon. Gentleman just said and I would like him...
Lindsay Hoyle | 455 c1081 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Gentleman’s comments, but in reality the 60 million-plus people in England ...
Shona McIsaac | 455 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) When I was a Home Office Parliamentary Private Secretary and the right hon. Gentleman was shadow Hom...

Subjects

Community development
Finance
Environment
Expenditure
Local government
Police
Post offices
Young people
Small businesses
Regional planning and development
Sustainable development
Wales
Shops
Regeneration

Legislation

Sustainable Communities Bill 2006-07

Link

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