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Greater London Authority Bill

Debate on bills on Thursday, 11 October 2007, in the House of Commons.
Greater London Authority Bill. Programme motion for proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments and subsequent stages. Agreed to on question. Lords amendments considered. Lords Amendment 2 disagreed to on division (278 to 165). Committee appointed to draw up reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to their amendments 1 and 2. Reasons reported and agreed to. Message to the Lords to communicate reasons.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

464 c480-511 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

Procedure

Programme motions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Greater London Authority Bill. Lords amendments. Explanatory Notes Bill 158-EN also published.
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Robert Neill | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) It will be the last time. I would be grateful if the Minister would clarify a comment that he made e...
John Healey | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) No. I am sorry. I am finishing on that point. For the reasons that I have set out, I urge my hon. F...

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Tom Brake | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Healey | 464 c500 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 464 c501 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 4 to 9.
John Healey | 464 c501 (Link to this contribution) We have reached a group of amendments that the Government tabled in the other place in response to t...
Robert Neill | 464 c501 (Link to this contribution) The Minister and I are in accord on the amendments and I am grateful to him for the spirit in which ...
Tom Brake | 464 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) I, too, support the amendments. If I were being churlish, I would question the reason for missing ou...
Mark Field | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I support what the Government are trying to achieve. However, in view of th...
Speaker | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman clearly is not giving way at this moment.
Andrew Dismore | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Boris Johnson | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I could just say that I want very much to echo what my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of ...
Speaker | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am not sure that the remit of the amendment includes who or who is not being considered as ...
Boris Johnson | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I think that everybody in the House wants to see a mayoralty that responds to the wishes of local co...
Clive Efford | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. If an hon. Member is going to make a contribution in such...
Speaker | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I think that that will become evident from the remarks that they make.
Speaker | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is clearly not giving way at the moment. Have you concluded your remarks, ...
John Healey | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendments Nos. 11 to 16.
John Healey | 464 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) In this group we propose a number of amendments to the planning clauses of the Bill, following usefu...
Charles Walker | 464 c504 (Link to this contribution) As someone who did not serve on the Bill Committee I am perhaps not as au fait with this matter as I...
John Healey | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman to the debate. We missed his contribution and his presence in earlier d...
Robert Neill | 464 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I should like to deal with the detail of the amendments fairly briefly, before coming to the underly...
John Healey | 464 c504 (Link to this contribution) The provisions in the Bill allow for the Mayor to get involved in major developments and application...
Robert Neill | 464 c505 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. A regrettable fact of London life is that the Mayor has not approached ...
Lee Scott | 464 c505 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the amendment, however helpful in improving the position, does not le...
Tom Brake | 464 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the Mayor will not control collections, because I think that that should be the bo...
John Healey | 464 c508 (Link to this contribution) I mentioned the implementation order in my opening remarks. We intend to introduce it as soon as pos...
John Healey | 464 c506 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment. In the other place, the ...
Mark Field | 464 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) We have rehearsed on several occasions in the House and in Committee our concerns about strategic po...
John Healey | 464 c506 (Link to this contribution) I welcome both Opposition parties' support for the amendments, if not for the broader principles, re...
Tom Brake | 464 c505 (Link to this contribution) I echo the hon. Gentleman's points. What the Government are proposing will certainly improve a flawe...
John Healey | 464 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) We propose a number of amendments to the climate change clauses, following valuable scrutiny of the ...
Speaker | 464 c508 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 19 to 29.
John Healey | 464 c508 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Robert Neill | 464 c509 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for the way that he has introduced the amendments. We have no issue wi...
Tom Brake | 464 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments without equivocation. As the Minister said, they are about sharpening the c...
John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendment No. 31.
John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) Both amendments respond to recommendations from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee...
John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, that this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 33 and 34.
John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) Confirmation hearings, as set out in schedule 1 to the Bill, provide an important new power for the ...
Tom Brake | 464 c511 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments with the same caveats about confirmation hearings. When we debated the matt...
Andy Slaughter | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Robert Neill | 464 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman's interventions do not become any more considered with the passag...
Andy Slaughter | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) I simply wish to ask a question: will this set a precedent for the Conservatives? Will there be sepa...
Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) I shall do so once more, and I hope that the hon. Gentleman's intervention will be better this time....
Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's intervention was not any better, and I shall not repeat my mistake.
David Evennett | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a sound and sensible speech. Londoners want there to be checks and balance ...
Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to my hon. Friend.
Andy Slaughter | 464 c483 (Link to this contribution) It is uncomfortable for me to witness the hon. Gentleman wriggling. We would like to hear why, in co...
Robert Neill | 464 c483 (Link to this contribution) I do not recall that their Lordships wanted to go into that degree of detail—although the debate ran...
Mark Field | 464 c483 (Link to this contribution) Unlike my hon. Friend, I have not had the opportunity of reading the Hansard reports of the Lords de...
Robert Neill | 464 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his kind words. The matters under discussion have been an entertaining ““Lo...
Mark Field | 464 c482 (Link to this contribution) Where towns or cities are in effect one-party states—there are perhaps more of them involving his pa...
John Healey | 464 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendment. I welcome the hon. M...
Clive Efford | 464 c489 (Link to this contribution) It is a curious position of principle to suggest that because someone does not like the outcome of a...
John Healey | 464 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) set out some general concerns and argumen...
Simon Burns | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to upset my hon. Friend, but I should mention that the founding fathers had no view on...
Mark Field | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to a great friend of mine whose knowledge of American politics knows no limits.
Mark Field | 464 c488 (Link to this contribution) I know that the loquaciousness of north Essex Members knows no bounds, but I think that we will leav...
Simon Burns | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening carefully to my hon. Friend's thesis. Are the Liberal Democrats not taking an ...
Mark Field | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) To a large extent, it was. I served under Baroness Hanham as a councillor in the royal borough of Ke...
Mark Field | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I shall leave it to the opponents of the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington to make that case...
Tom Brake | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that he thought that the official Opposition in the other place had simply r...
Mark Field | 464 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) I regret that my party was associated with this matter in the House of Lords, because it is wholly w...
Tom Brake | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. I merely restate the fact that this was not intended to be a partisan am...
Andy Slaughter | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) says, the hon. Gentleman is therefore guilty o...
Andy Slaughter | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) In Committee, I had the privilege of listening to the hon. Gentleman describe, in a moment of rare s...
Tom Brake | 464 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was present during Committee, but we supported the idea of ...
Andrew Dismore | 464 c485 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will correct me if I am wrong, but it was not just the official Op...
Tom Brake | 464 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to return to this matter, which I raised in Committee. We had much fun with it, and I r...
Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. It is important to remember that the boroughs are a third key part of the e...
Mark Field | 464 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right when he says that we want a strong executive Mayor. I share and understand som...
Tom Brake | 464 c495 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions deadlock. When I asked the officers of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat...
Mark Field | 464 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Of course, there are many examples across the country of tho...
John Healey | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) As I tried to explain to the House, and as the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr....
Robert Neill | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister help me on two short questions? First, in our tradition and process, where is there...
John Healey | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) The point that I was making is that the New York model does not translate. Instead of all members of...
Robert Neill | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister saying that there is any other city or town in the United Kingdom which has a direct...
John Healey | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The hon. Gentleman went on to talk about back-stairs deals. One could look at the budget proce...
John Healey | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman wish to come back?
John Healey | 464 c489 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Shortly we shall see the decisions that all hon. Members, particularly thos...
Robert Neill | 464 c492 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little progress before I indulge the hon. Gentleman. It is important that the system...
John Healey | 464 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment. The hon. Member for Bro...
Robert Neill | 464 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) In our judgment, the other place has clearly and significantly improved the Bill in this case and I ...
Andy Slaughter | 464 c492 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I am pleased to see that the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. J...
Robert Neill | 464 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should have been more patient, because I was dealing first with the lack ...
Robert Neill | 464 c492 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman who is itching to speak.
Tom Brake | 464 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am pleased to return to this matter, which was debated at greater length than any other in ...
John Healey | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) Yes—Doncaster, Watford, Hackney. I return to the point that I was making. Out of the 25 elected Ass...
Robert Neill | 464 c507 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his introduction of the amendment. As he said, I welcome the Gover...
Robert Neill | 464 c510-1 (Link to this contribution) We accept the Minister's sensible amendments. The principle of confirmation hearings is, I concede, ...
John Healey | 464 c482 (Link to this contribution) No, I am simply trying to do justice to some of the arguments that were made in debates during previ...
Tom Brake | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I had made it extremely clear that we are in favour of a two-term limit, but that Bar...
Robert Neill | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) Suffice it to say that we agree with the Minister and have nothing to add. Lords amendment agreed t...
Clive Efford | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has spoken with a great deal of common sense in this debate, although we were on ...
Speaker | 464 c488 (Link to this contribution) Order. Extending the debate to the outer limits of Chelmsford is one thing, but extending it across ...

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Greater London Authority Bill 2006-07

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