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Planning Bill

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 25 June 2008, in the House of Commons, led by John Healey. The answering member was Jacqui Lait.

Planning Bill. Programme motion (No 3) varying the proceedings of Programme motion (No 2) of 2 June, on the second day of the Report stage. Agreed to on division (309 votes to 156). Report stage second day. New clause 11, debated with Government new clause 13, new clauses 7, 39, 40 to 42, and Government new schedule 1, agreed to. New clauses 12, 13, 39, 40 and 41 agreed to. New clause 30, debated with new clauses 2 to 4, 36, and Government new schedule 5 agreed to. New clause 31, discussed with Government new clause 32 agreed to. New clause 3 negatived. New clauses 33 and 34 agreed to. Government new schedules 1 to 5, and 7 agreed to. Queen's and Prince of Wales's consent signified. Third reading debate agreed to on division (280 votes to 198). Bill passed.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

478 c319-464

Session

2007-08

Planning Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 478 c324 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that if we had 50 hours, the Commons would make a different decision?

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c324 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exaggerating to make his point. Fifty hours of debate would, of course, be ridicul...

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Peter Bone | 478 c324 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention, because I was about to make that point. Why d...

Rob Wilson | 478 c324 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Bone). I oppose the pro...

Peter Bone | 478 c325 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's argument does not ring true. If he really wanted to protect the time for the first de...

John Healey | 478 c324-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) made many of the same points this afternoon that she made ...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c325 (Link to this contribution) I compliment the Minister on how the Public Bill Committee was conducted; he genuinely engaged in di...

John Healey | 478 c325 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will look at the programme motion. We have moved back the end of tonight'...

John Healey | 478 c325 (Link to this contribution) We have had these arguments about time constraints at each stage of the Bill. Sad to say, it is what...

Speaker | 478 c330 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 12—Effect of interve...

Hazel Blears | 478 c336-7 (Link to this contribution) I am very conscious of the amount of time that we have to debate the range of amendments to which yo...

John Healey | 478 c325-6 (Link to this contribution) No, I will finish on this point. If we get on with debating the content of the Bill rather than the ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c330 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Denis Murphy | 478 c337 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend reassure me that open-cast coal operators will not be allowed to circumvent...

Hazel Blears | 478 c337 (Link to this contribution) I refute entirely the idea that the legislation was brought forward in a hurry. We had a White Paper...

Graham Stuart | 478 c337 (Link to this contribution) One of the causes of concern is whether the legislation was put together in a hurry, and although we...

Paul Beresford | 478 c320 (Link to this contribution) May I add my concerns to those of my hon. Friend? As I said on Second Reading, this is a skeletal Bi...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c319-20 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the whole team from the Department for Communities and Local Government on being in t...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c320 (Link to this contribution) I do not want another interruption to my peroration—the right hon. Gentleman will be pleased to know...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c320 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not think that this timetable amounts almost to an abuse of the House's time? Wh...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c320 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend. He has most eloquently made the point that I am hoping to conv...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c320 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are questions that we have been trying to pursue in Commit...

Peter Bone | 478 c323 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field). I disagree with his fir...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 478 c323 (Link to this contribution) I rise with the aim of puncturing the cant that we have been listening to since the start of the deb...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c322-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to follow someone whom I would like to call my hon. Friend the Member for Me...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c321-2 (Link to this contribution) Having spent several days discussing these important issues in Committee, I am also disappointed tha...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c321 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) and I disagreed on some aspects of the Bill in Committee a...

Paul Beresford | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) I understand that that issue is still being considered by the special committee established to deal ...

Paul Beresford | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) Clause 13 refers to"““the construction of a pipe-line””." If the Secretary of State could talk abou...

Hazel Blears | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) I am anxious to get to the meat of this Bill, as I am sure lots of hon. Members are, but I will brie...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is well aware that between the Birkenhead and Wallasey constituencies, Peel Hol...

Hazel Blears | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to give my hon. Friend that assurance. Clause 13 sets out in great detail the areas t...

Gordon Prentice | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) What is the position regarding the disposal of radioactive nuclear waste? I understand that we had a...

Hazel Blears | 478 c338 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to give my right hon. Friend that assurance. I have visited the area, and I have gain...

Hazel Blears | 478 c338-9 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, there are issues involving the distribution network for gas and electricity. Some of the pi...

Baroness Kramer | 478 c339 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c339 (Link to this contribution) Goodness me. I shall make this the last intervention on this area.

John McDonnell | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend just answer the specific question? Will BAA undertake the initial consulta...

Hazel Blears | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that the promoter will be responsible for undertaking the consultation. That is...

Paul Beresford | 478 c340 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is kind to give way again. Let us go back half a step. As I understand it, th...

Hazel Blears | 478 c339-40 (Link to this contribution) As I said to the hon. Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford), the purpose of the Bill is to ens...

Hazel Blears | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) Yes, if it is the promoter of the scheme. Promoters have that responsibility. When I deal with the o...

Caroline Flint | 478 c391-2 (Link to this contribution) Clause 149 makes it clear that the delegation of planning functions to the regional development agen...

Caroline Flint | 478 c392-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much. I have been praised twice on the record; that is not too bad. I thank the right...

David Curry | 478 c392 (Link to this contribution) The Minister did not hear what I said. I said that I was grateful to her, that I looked forward to d...

Caroline Flint | 478 c392 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has decided to take that course of action. We are trying to...

David Curry | 478 c392 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for responding so positively. I look forward to those discussions, and...

Caroline Flint | 478 c395 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. We recently relaunched planning policy statement 25, w...

David Drew | 478 c394-5 (Link to this contribution) In a sense, I understand that we should be looking at the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, but I ...

Caroline Flint | 478 c394 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to make a case about how development is viewed. One of the problems we f...

Lembit Opik | 478 c394 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be aware that, in effect, developers currently have two opportunities to appeal ag...

Andrew George | 478 c395 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding the Minister's comments in dismissing the amendment on third party rights of appeal,...

Lord Benyon | 478 c396 (Link to this contribution) I tabled the new clause following representations made to me by a constituent who was the victim of ...

Caroline Flint | 478 c395-6 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, I am not convinced of the argument that we need such a mechanism, but there is a lot...

Lord Benyon | 478 c396 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to prolong this conversation, because I want to allow other Members to talk about the ...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) We are rapidly running out of time in our consideration of the Bill, and we now come to a second sig...

Caroline Flint | 478 c396-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his constructive approach. New clauses 3 and 4 deal with health and ...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c399 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and her point is reminiscent of a debate we had in earlier consideratio...

Julia Goldsworthy | 478 c398-9 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my chief concern that the RDAs, which report to the Department for Busines...

Keith Hill | 478 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to new clause 38, which was tabled by the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogers...

David Drew | 478 c405-6 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to amendment No. 2, which stands in my name. Its contents are not a million miles aw...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c403-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to have caught your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, having had an opportunity to listen to...

Keith Hill | 478 c402-3 (Link to this contribution) That is a very reasonable intervention. To be entirely accurate, the development somewhat post-dated...

Keith Hill | 478 c401-2 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for that generous offer. It will certainly please my cons...

Caroline Flint | 478 c401 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his contribution. I do not want to say too much about the situation...

Keith Hill | 478 c401 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that trip down memory lane. He is right to say that we had m...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c400 (Link to this contribution) Is this not almost déjà vu for the right hon. Gentleman? He dealt with the Planning and Compulsory P...

Lembit Opik | 478 c406-7 (Link to this contribution) The difference is that although a 15 m high conservatory may be aesthetically displeasing, it does n...

Lord Stunell | 478 c406 (Link to this contribution) New clauses 3 and 4 did not arrive out of thin air for this debate. They are substantially the same ...

Lord Stunell | 478 c408 (Link to this contribution) I would like to think so; it is certainly true that in every realm of life, including what goes on i...

Lord Stunell | 478 c408 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support, but I would prefer not to get engaged in the point that ...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c408 (Link to this contribution) I fully support what the hon. Gentleman is saying. Is he aware of last weekend's reports in The Sund...

Lord Stunell | 478 c407 (Link to this contribution) That brings me neatly on to the argument put forward by Sir William Stewart in his report. He mentio...

Alun Michael | 478 c407 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman said, the radiation from a mobile phone is much greater than that from a mast....

Lord Stunell | 478 c407-8 (Link to this contribution) I am beginning to wonder whether I circulated my speech notes before the debate, because the hon. Ge...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c407 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that part of the solution may be to encourage mobile phone companies t...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c408-10 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be able to speak in this debate. Time is marching on quickly, so I just want to mak...

Lord Stunell | 478 c407 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is reflecting a fear that many of our constituents have. I do not want to base the wh...

Speaker | 478 c411 (Link to this contribution) I am bound by the order to which the House agreed earlier today.

Parmjit Dhanda | 478 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) would have been a welcome member of...

Parmjit Dhanda | 478 c411 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with a group of clauses that were discussed in Committee about Welsh powers, Welsh bligh...

Lembit Opik | 478 c411 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. There was a programme motion earlier and we thought that ...

John Healey | 478 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way—not to the hon. Gentleman at this point. The House, and members of the Public B...

John Redwood | 478 c453 (Link to this contribution) If someone wanted to begin a planning application for a new power station today, how long would it t...

John Healey | 478 c452 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. As we begin Third Reading, we have come to...

Lembit Opik | 478 c452 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Speaker | 478 c411 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 32—Wales: transition...

Parmjit Dhanda | 478 c411 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Speaker | 478 c454 (Link to this contribution) I call Mr. Clive Betts.

Clive Betts | 478 c454 (Link to this contribution) I want to make three or four—

Speaker | 478 c454 (Link to this contribution) I do apologise. I call Jacqui Lait.

Lord Deben | 478 c455 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that it is most likely that the first nuclear power station will be in my...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c455 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my right hon. Friend, and after I have clarified what we and the Government ag...

John Redwood | 478 c455 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

John Healey | 478 c453 (Link to this contribution) An application today for a new power station would be handled under the existing regime. The new sys...

John Healey | 478 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) I rather regret giving way to the hon. Gentleman now, as he has a habit of coming in halfway through...

Lembit Opik | 478 c453 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way to me, and I shall be brief. He mentioned the public's ...

John Redwood | 478 c458 (Link to this contribution) Does not the hon. Gentleman realise that the proposals will simply delay and complicate matters more...

Clive Betts | 478 c458 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with that, but that is just a difference of opinion. The Bill presents a real challe...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c457 (Link to this contribution) There is a very quick answer to that question: no. Those are part of the undemocratic nature of the ...

Clive Betts | 478 c457 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. When you mistakenly called me to speak a few minutes ago, I thought t...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c457 (Link to this contribution) I will, but I wish that my hon. Friend had not interrupted as I was moving into my peroration.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c457 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Having sat through both days' consideration on Report, and given th...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c457 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Jacqui Lait | 478 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) I believe that E.ON has submitted a planning application for a coal-fired power station, and I sugge...

John Redwood | 478 c455 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend answer the question that the Minister obviously could not? If somebody wanted to...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c455 (Link to this contribution) I know that others wish to contribute, but I shall give way if my right hon. Friend will be brief.

John McDonnell | 478 c459 (Link to this contribution) The behaviour of the House in agreeing the programme motion and conducting today's debate has been l...

John McDonnell | 478 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will not give way, because I have two minutes left. Let us n...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) As we come to the end of this the first time that I have had the opportunity to represent my party o...

Hazel Blears | 478 c370 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very brief, because I spoke at length in the earlier part of the day— It being Five o'cl...

Speaker | 478 c373 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.

Speaker | 478 c377 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say to the House that this is programmed business, and that the amount of time taken to...

Ed Davey | 478 c382 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

John Grogan | 478 c365-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the chance to say a few words in support of amendment No. 339. The Secretary of St...

David Curry | 478 c367-9 (Link to this contribution) We should be grateful to the Secretary of State for coming before the House to argue her case, and s...

Paul Truswell | 478 c369-70 (Link to this contribution) I speak in support of amendment No. 66, which I tabled. On Second Reading, I said that I would subje...

Speaker | 478 c384 (Link to this contribution) I should inform the House at this stage that Government new schedule 1, which is marshalled next on ...

Speaker | 478 c385 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Caroline Flint | 478 c390 (Link to this contribution) We now turn to matters pertaining to part 9 of the Bill, including a number of measures that we hope...

Caroline Flint | 478 c385 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Speaker | 478 c385 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman has found an effective way of announcing that to the House, and I ha...

Caroline Flint | 478 c391 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. That is a very clear explanation of what we are saying. The power is one of last resort....

Clive Betts | 478 c391 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to my right hon. Friend on this matter; I tabled amendments just to express...

David Drew | 478 c357 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady care to comment on something that I have difficulty understanding? Where under th...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c357-8 (Link to this contribution) I find the hon. Gentleman's point challenging and it is part of the difficulty of having a site-spec...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) Of course. I keep mentioning the hon. Gentleman; it is only fair that I should give way to him.

Jacqui Lait | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is missing the point; the Bill just talks about consultation. I may be splitting ...

Clive Betts | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree that there should be as much consultation as possible before the application is for...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) We took quite a bit of it on board, actually.

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will remember the pre-legislative scrutiny stage of the Bill. We consulted many profes...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) Were there any changes to the Bill?

Jacqui Lait | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) Oh well, that is different.

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) Ah!

Clive Betts | 478 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) From Second Reading onwards, I have spent a lot of time considering various aspects of the Bill. I h...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c361 (Link to this contribution) How does the hon. Gentleman's new clause 41 differ from the ordinary right to take a matter to the L...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c358-9 (Link to this contribution) But we certainly took it on board and based a number of our amendments precisely on the information ...

Speaker | 478 c360 (Link to this contribution) I remind hon. Members that there are approximately 40 minutes of this debate left. Perhaps they woul...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c363-5 (Link to this contribution) We are discussing the most contentious aspects of the Bill, as the Secretary of State clearly pointe...

Clive Betts | 478 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) In the end, we can learn from the process whether we should change it and the policy statements in a...

Paul Beresford | 478 c362 (Link to this contribution) What would the hon. Gentleman expect to happen if, in interviewing the chairman and the Minister, th...

Clive Betts | 478 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) I will not respond to that in technical terms. My understanding is that there is currently a deficie...

Hazel Blears | 478 c344-5 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely why we should have a national debate on what the country needs, which will take p...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c344 (Link to this contribution) I understand the logic of the Secretary of State's remarks about the national picture, but does she ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c344 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman and I are in agreement about that. Speed and efficiency are i...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c343-4 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the Secretary of State's terminology in respect of processing applications. I am ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c342-3 (Link to this contribution) I want to press on. When I come to the heart of the matter, I am sure that the hon. Lady will have e...

Hazel Blears | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) Under current legislation, we have the precedent of the previous inquiry, which took approximately s...

David Curry | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) Since the Bill's entire philosophy is based on speeding up the planning process, will the Secretary ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) May I ask hon. Members to wait a moment, because I want to deal with one more technical matter, afte...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) I do not propose to rehearse the debate held on the first day of Report. The matter was well ventila...

David Curry | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State promised to let me intervene again.

Hazel Blears | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a little more progress.

David Curry | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) I would certainly never accuse the right hon. Lady of that. The right hon. Member for Greenwich and...

Hazel Blears | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) Did I promise? Goodness me. Well, I am not a person who would ever break a promise. I am delighted t...

Hazel Blears | 478 c345 (Link to this contribution) I think the right hon. Gentleman would acknowledge that I have never regarded democracy as an inconv...

David Curry | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c345-6 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to endorse that contribution from my right hon. Friend, who, as a former Minister in ...

Baroness Featherstone | 478 c351 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c351 (Link to this contribution) Equally, I cannot understand the hon. Gentleman's concerns. It is always appropriate to set rules ab...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c351 (Link to this contribution) As a lawyer, the Secretary of State will realise that the best test of any evidence is cross-examina...

Hazel Blears | 478 c351 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that it is a veto, and neither do I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Yes, I am a lawye...

Hazel Blears | 478 c351 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a moment. I am just going through the three points. The public will be involved ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c350 (Link to this contribution) No. If I agree to give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is always charming and never churlish, I will ...

Paul Beresford | 478 c350 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c350 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a range of detailed issues. My announcement today was that there will be a rev...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c356 (Link to this contribution) I note that my hon. Friend has tabled a number of amendments on the role of the decision maker. The ...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c355 (Link to this contribution) A row of beans.

Jacqui Lait | 478 c355 (Link to this contribution) ““A mess of potage”” is the other phrase that comes to mind. I gently point out to the hon. Member ...

Clive Betts | 478 c355 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with interest to the hon. Lady. Will she explain precisely what the policy of the Con...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c355-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must have been the bane of the Whip's life in Committee, because I seem to rememb...

Baroness Featherstone | 478 c352 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State, who is being very generous. Are there any criteria or guidelines as ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c352 (Link to this contribution) I intend to finish shortly, but I will give way to the hon. Lady, as she has not intervened before. ...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c354-5 (Link to this contribution) I had assumed, Madam Deputy Speaker, that we would follow the order in which Members' amendments wer...

Hazel Blears | 478 c352-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an important point. The Bill contains provisions ensuring that the IPC must give...

Paul Beresford | 478 c347 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c347 (Link to this contribution) I will, for the third time.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) It is on that point.

Hazel Blears | 478 c346-7 (Link to this contribution) It may be on that point, but I am going to make some more progress. We consider speed and efficienc...

Paul Truswell | 478 c348 (Link to this contribution) Because national policy statements may well turn out to be very prescriptive, by the time that indiv...

Hazel Blears | 478 c348 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the phrase in the Bill is quite open regarding the consultation that s...

Paul Beresford | 478 c347 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is very kind. I understand that the national frameworks for aviation will be...

Hazel Blears | 478 c347-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is anticipating my remarks. Perhaps I should press on in order to reassure him on...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c348 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c346 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little more progress, if I may.

Hazel Blears | 478 c349 (Link to this contribution) I said ““secondly””, and I am going to get through my list, which is also important. Secondly, the ...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c349 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way now?

Hazel Blears | 478 c349 (Link to this contribution) Oh, I'll give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c349 (Link to this contribution) I do not know why the Secretary of State gives way in such a churlish fashion. The right hon. Lady ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c349-50 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is perhaps not fully aware of the provisions of the Bill. The pr...

John McDonnell | 478 c350 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Hazel Blears | 478 c350 (Link to this contribution) I have spoken for 50 minutes so far and I am conscious that hon. Members need time to debate, but I ...

John McDonnell | 478 c350 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has just said that she has made a significant announcement about the two-year...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c349 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said something really important: will she give way?

Speaker | 478 c377 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say to the House that this is programmed business, and that the amount of time taken to...

Caroline Flint | 478 c396 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, when individual cases occur we should be mindful of them. As I have said, according to th...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c356-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made my point for me. It is not difficult to work out that, at every stage of the...

Hazel Blears | 478 c349 (Link to this contribution) I shall press on, because otherwise hon. Members will not get a chance to debate the issues. I shal...

Peter Bone | 478 c324 (Link to this contribution) I do not have such powers. If we had 50 hours of debate, the Bill would be better, because all the p...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 478 c320 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?

Baroness Kramer | 478 c339 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is being phenomenally generous, and it is much appreciated. As the details o...

Jacqui Lait | 478 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I did not think that I had become wholly invisible. That is a more re...

Speaker | 478 c382 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman could wait until we have completed these votes, we can deal with it then.

John McDonnell | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) I want to get the matter completely clear, because it will astound several of my constituents. Will ...

Hazel Blears | 478 c341 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The promoter would have a responsibility, but as the hon. Gentleman will realise as I deal with...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c402 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has highlighted the fact that he was the Minister at the time when the appl...

Clive Betts | 478 c358 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?

Nick Raynsford | 478 c345 (Link to this contribution) In replying to the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry), my right hon. Friend rightly...

Lembit Opik | 478 c391 (Link to this contribution) While I am reassured that the current Minister would regard the transference and exercise of those p...

Baroness Kramer | 478 c408 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that if mobile phone masts were subject to the planning regime, the compan...

David Curry | 478 c345 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady accepts the inconvenience of living in a democracy. However much people might su...

Elfyn Llwyd | 478 c351 (Link to this contribution) There is a veto if the commission decides that cross-examination is not appropriate. In Committee, t...