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Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill

Debate on bills on Thursday, 8 April 2010, in the House of Commons.
Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill. Report stage debate. Amendment considered and withdrawn. Amendment negatived on division (1 to 212). Third reading. Agreed on question and bill passed.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

508 c1186-202 

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Third reading and Report stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Bills
House of Commons
Sustainable Communities Act 2007
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Public acts

Proceeding contributions

Christopher Chope | 508 c1186 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 1, in page 1, line 1, leave out clause 1.
Speaker | 508 c1186 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

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Christopher Chope | 508 c1186-7 (Link to this contribution) I much regret that I never got a response from the Leader of the House to my offer yesterday to forg...
Speaker | 508 c1187-8 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Lady intervenes, I will helpfully say—I know the hon. Member for Christchurch...
Nicholas Winterton | 508 c1188 (Link to this contribution) Labours Members have not rushed back.
Christopher Chope | 508 c1188 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the Minister is familiar with the long sparring game that I have had with the ...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1188 (Link to this contribution) May I just say to my hon. Friend that I was sitting in the Tea Room just now and as soon as his name...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1188 (Link to this contribution) I certainly would like to be in order, Mr. Speaker. I was expressing my disappointment that the Secr...
Barbara Follett | 508 c1188 (Link to this contribution) I would just like to explain on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State that he came i...
Speaker | 508 c1188 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) was trying to make an orderly intervention, but ...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1188-90 (Link to this contribution) I have never been one for dilating. On subject of time, it is important to recognise that it is only...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend agree that the best regulator of local authorities is the people voting in loca...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1190-1 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The great thing about local authorities is that they are elected and, therefore, account...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) If I am wrong about that, my hon. Friend should accept responsibility for the wording of paragraph (...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1192 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough. It may be that suc...
Barbara Follett | 508 c1192-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be here today because I thought that after the events of a couple of weeks ago we wo...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1193 (Link to this contribution) Parish councils are probably the perfect example of democracy in local government because they have ...
Barbara Follett | 508 c1193-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I must make some progress. Given the lack of knowledge of the number and complexity of proposals...
Barbara Follett | 508 c1193 (Link to this contribution) No, but it does exactly what we hope it will do: involve local people far more in local democratic p...
Alistair Burt | 508 c1194-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall come back to clause 1 and deal with that point in a second, if I may. The Bill and the amen...
William Cash | 508 c1195 (Link to this contribution) I am not universally hostile to the proposals by any means, but I am concerned about the definition ...
Alistair Burt | 508 c1194 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak today and, I hope, to see the Bill through to a conclusio...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1194 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend for having inadvertently slurred him by suggesting that the Bill is a ...
Speaker | 508 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the House. I took the Chair during the debate and had not been able to appreciate the...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1199 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Minister has already spoken once. These are my amendmen...
Barbara Follett | 508 c1200 (Link to this contribution) I understand, Mr. Deputy Speaker. With the leave of the House, I would like to reiterate the flexib...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1200 (Link to this contribution) May I thank everyone who has participated in this debate? I thank my hon. Friends the Members for No...
Speaker | 508 c1199 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister needs the leave of the House to speak again.
Robert Neill | 508 c1197 (Link to this contribution) I echo that concluding passage because it encapsulates why the official Opposition support the Bill ...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I support at least one of the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr. C...
Colin Breed | 508 c1198 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal Democrats fully support this modest but important Bill, as we supported the original Act...
Robert Neill | 508 c1198 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I might have drafted those provisions slightly differently, and I will make two...
William Cash | 508 c1197 (Link to this contribution) As an eminent lawyer, does my hon. Friend have doubts about the attempt to exclude the jurisdiction ...
Christopher Chope | 508 c1187 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly helpful to me and I hope that the Serjeant at Arms will do so with great expedition....
Alistair Burt | 508 c1195-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the reference is exclusively to local government representative associations. Th...

Subjects

Community development
Local government

Legislation

Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill 2009-10

Link

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