Rating (Empty Properties) Bill. Resolved that provision be made for and in connection with the liability of owners of unoccupied hereditaments to a non-domestic rate. Presentation and first reading. (Bill 102). To be read a second time on 14 May.
Rating (Empty Properties) Bill
Debate on bills on Thursday, 10 May 2007,
in the House of Commons,
led by Phil Woolas.
The answering
member was Anne Main.
About these Parliamentary proceedings
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2006-07Legislative stage
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Rating (Empty Properties) Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 102-EN also published.
Thursday, 10 May 2007
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Thursday, 10 May 2007
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Deposited Paper DEP 06/2172
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 460 c357-8 (Link to this contribution)
If I may pre-empt the Chancellor and beg the House’s indulgence, I would like to congratulate the Ec...
Phil Woolas | 460 c365 (Link to this contribution)
I understand the hon. Lady’s point, and the whole House will be familiar with it. In fact, I visited...
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Phil Woolas | 460 c359-63 (Link to this contribution)
We have had a good, short debate. I commend hon. Members on the thoroughness of their research. The ...
Ed Balls | 460 c363 (Link to this contribution)
Property Week.
Anne Main | 460 c358 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend prompts me to inquire whether the Minister has taken into account restrictive covenan...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 460 c358-9 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a pertinent point, and I agree with her.
Why does the Treasury seem to be at o...
Phil Woolas | 460 c364 (Link to this contribution)
I shall move swiftly on, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as both you and the Whips are looking at me very sternl...
Anne Main | 460 c365 (Link to this contribution)
For clarification, the local development framework has allocated that site for housing, and housing ...
Phil Woolas | 460 c363-4 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend reminds me that Property Week has looked into the issue. The example of Palmer Capita...
Ed Balls | 460 c364 (Link to this contribution)
He could cross the Floor!
Phil Woolas | 460 c365 (Link to this contribution)
I apologise. The cinema would be an asset to her city, but the fact remains that there appears to be...
Anne Main | 460 c341 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend will know that we had a good debate about housing totals in Hertfordshire. We welcome...
Michael Gove | 460 c341 (Link to this contribution)
No, I have no trouble with my colleagues. I receive from them a generosity of support and enthusiasm...
Michael Gove | 460 c342-5 (Link to this contribution)
As ever, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Some of the Economic Secretary’s comments about th...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 460 c342 (Link to this contribution)
Given that the CBI has estimated that the tax burden on business has risen since 1997 by £50 billion...
Michael Fabricant | 460 c345 (Link to this contribution)
Interest rates have just gone up again today, to the highest level since 2001.
Ed Balls | 460 c345 (Link to this contribution)
Look at the interest rates then.
Michael Gove | 460 c341-2 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Your intervention enables me to make the point that struck all of u...
Speaker | 460 c341 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I have allowed some latitude, but rather than debating housing we should now be debating the ...
Michael Gove | 460 c342 (Link to this contribution)
That is an intriguing question, but it is the Opposition who ask the questions here, and I have seve...
Ed Balls | 460 c342 (Link to this contribution)
Last week, shadow Treasury Ministers spent £500 million on opposing pension term assurance. Four wee...
Ed Balls | 460 c335-6 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move,"That provision may be made for and in connection with the liability of owners of unoc...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 460 c336 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Minister concur with the views expressed by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, w...
Ed Balls | 460 c341 (Link to this contribution)
You’ll be in trouble with your colleagues.
Ed Balls | 460 c336-7 (Link to this contribution)
I will come back to the views of that institution in due course. Clearly, at that time the combinati...
Ed Balls | 460 c338-40 (Link to this contribution)
I said earlier that these issues apply to the whole country, in both high and low-demand areas. Part...
Anne Main | 460 c338 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the fact that the Economic Secretary appears to want to target this relief. If he has the ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 460 c337 (Link to this contribution)
What feedback has the Economic Secretary had from urban regeneration companies and development agenc...
Michael Gove | 460 c341 (Link to this contribution)
I am flattered that the Economic Secretary takes such a close interest in what appears on my website...
Ed Balls | 460 c341 (Link to this contribution)
We have discussed this issue regularly over the past few years in proceedings on the Finance Bill an...
Michael Gove | 460 c340 (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to see the Economic Secretary in his place today. I am grateful for his breaking of...
Anne Main | 460 c354-6 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friends and I have a lot of questions about this proposal. As my hon. Friend the Member for ...
Robert Key | 460 c353-4 (Link to this contribution)
That is an entirely fair point. Without getting into either endogenous growth theories or Marxism, I...
Vincent Cable | 460 c348 (Link to this contribution)
Whether the measure will lead to more inflation or to less utilisation of capacity elsewhere in the ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 460 c348 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman touches on an important point. Does he agree that the Government have not looked ...
Vincent Cable | 460 c346-8 (Link to this contribution)
As this is a pre-legislative phase, where we are asking broad questions rather making forceful asser...
Michael Gove | 460 c345-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for the other historical comparisons being drawn to my attention.
One consequence of ...
Robert Key | 460 c350-2 (Link to this contribution)
I am tempted to say, ““What a splendid day to bury bad news,”” but I do not want to go there, becaus...
Vincent Cable | 460 c349-50 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is absolutely right and makes the point that I was trying to raise. The Federation of ...
Anne Main | 460 c349 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is aware that people who wish to change a commercial building to a...
Ed Balls | 460 c337-8 (Link to this contribution)
Once again, the hon. Gentleman pre-empts my speech. I shall come to how we can ensure that we suppor...
Ed Balls | 460 c353 (Link to this contribution)
I want to understand the hon. Gentleman’s argument. I am worried that the point he is making is not ...
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