Localism Bill. Lords committee stage seventh day. Clause 95 agreed to as amended. Clauses 96 to 99 agreed to.
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Localism Bill. Brought from the Commons. In two volumes. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 71-EN also published.
Thursday, 19 May 2011
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
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Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. Sixteenth report on the Localism Bill - Parts 4 to 8. (Lords Minutes).
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. Fifteenth report on: Education Bill; Localism Bill Parts 1 to 3. (Lords Minutes).
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c692 (Link to this contribution)
Perhaps I might respond because otherwise we will prolong a discussion about something that is not p...
Lord Greaves | 729 c692-3 (Link to this contribution)
I shall certainly not move my amendment when I come to it, but I want to make a slightly different p...
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Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c690-1 (Link to this contribution)
I think that I can help the noble Lord. Large centres of population have clearly identifiable city o...
Lord Beecham | 729 c690 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I just wonder about the definition of town centres. In an area like Newcastle, the town ce...
Baroness Byford | 729 c691-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the Minister responds to my noble friend, perhaps I may say that I am certainly a g...
Lord True | 729 c691 (Link to this contribution)
Before my noble friend sits down, may I say that I was disappointed by his absolutely granite remark...
Lord True | 729 c687-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if my noble friend wants to come to our high street, he can have 30 minutes of free parkin...
Earl Cathcart | 729 c687 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree with the sentiments of what everyone has been said so far. We must revitalise town...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c689-90 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for participating in this useful debate on this group of amendment...
Lord Beecham | 729 c688-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I warmly endorse the thrust of the three amendments. It is clearly desirable to have a pro...
Lord Greaves | 729 c697 (Link to this contribution)
148ZZZZBB: Clause 97, Page 75, line 32, leave out from ““modifications”” to end of line 33
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c693 (Link to this contribution)
May I remind noble Lords that I have responded on behalf of the Government to these amendments and I...
Baroness Smith of Basildon | 729 c697 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Lord and, if I understand him correctly, he is saying the amendments are ...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c696-7 (Link to this contribution)
I share the concern of those wishing to be ambitious in meeting the challenges of climate change. I ...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 729 c696 (Link to this contribution)
This is the first time that I have spoken in this stage of the Bill so I declare an interest as a so...
Lord Berkeley | 729 c695-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I support these amendments. In some ways they are no-brainers: it is so obvious that they ...
Baroness Smith of Basildon | 729 c694-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 150ZA. The amendments were inspired by existing legislatio...
Baroness Smith of Basildon | 729 c694 (Link to this contribution)
148ZZB: After Clause 96, insert the following new Clause—
““Development plan documents: climate chan...
Lord Cotter | 729 c693-4 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for his responses. I deliberately said, in proposing my amendment, that I did n...
Lord Greaves | 729 c693 (Link to this contribution)
I shall say one more thing. I apologise if I am going on too long. I invite the noble Lord, who is i...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c698-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for introducing these amendments. I understand his purpose, but we...
Lord Greaves | 729 c698 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the numbering is getting bizarre but the content of the amendments makes up for it. I will...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c699 (Link to this contribution)
148ZZZZBH: Clause 97, Page 76, line 13, at end insert—
““( ) In section 23 (adoption of local develo...
Lord Greaves | 729 c699 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am prepared to withdraw my amendment. I did not think I would get anywhere, but it is st...
Lord True | 729 c700 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am conscious of the need to make haste and I am perhaps making too much. There are a lot...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c700 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is a probing amendment, prompted by the National Housing Federation. It specifically ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c701 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the Minister. I will certainly withdraw the amendment, but I am still a little uncl...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c700-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, is quite right in moving this probing amendment to emphasis...
Lord Berkeley | 729 c702 (Link to this contribution)
Could the Minister clarify that? Is there not going to be a sort of bonanza before the LDP is finall...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c701-2 (Link to this contribution)
I think I gave the noble Lord the answer to this when I said that the presumption would be that the ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c702 (Link to this contribution)
148ZZZBB: Clause 99, Page 76, line 40, at end insert—
““( ) In section 205 (the levy), at the end of...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c702 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister again. I think that my noble friend Lord Berkeley has articu...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c702 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, there is an incentive for local authorities to get these plans in place—I think I have mad...
Baroness Hamwee | 729 c706 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I, too, may ask a question about the provision of infrastructure on an ““ongoing””...
Lord Lucas | 729 c705-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I wish to speak to my Amendment 148ZZCBA. It proposes to remove subsection (3)(b) of Claus...
Lord Greaves | 729 c704-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have some amendments in this group, which I shall try to rattle through as quickly as po...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c702-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in moving Amendment 148ZZZBB, I will also speak to the other amendments in my name, namely...
Earl Attlee | 729 c708-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps it would be helpful if I first answered the question from my noble friend Lady Ham...
Lord Berkeley | 729 c708 (Link to this contribution)
Can the noble Earl clarify what is covered by ““future ongoing costs””? Is it maintenance of housing...
Earl Attlee | 729 c706-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the purpose of the CIL is for owners or developers of land to contribute to the cost of pr...
Lord Best | 729 c678 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I give qualified support to Amendment 148 in the name of my noble friend Lady Greengross a...
Earl Cathcart | 729 c678 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, forgive me if I am wrong, but I thought that all councils were already required to make a ...
Lord Whitty | 729 c679-80 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I support the principles of the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross....
Lord Beecham | 729 c678-9 (Link to this contribution)
I hesitate to express a slightly different point of view as a vice-president of the Local Government...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c652 (Link to this contribution)
I will certainly do that.
Lord Greaves | 729 c652-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for the great care that he has taken in responding to these amendment...
Lord Greaves | 729 c653 (Link to this contribution)
147Q: Clause 95, page 73, line 38, leave out ““(1)(b)”” and insert ““(1)(c)””
Amendment 147Q agreed...
Baroness Greengross | 729 c675 (Link to this contribution)
148: After Clause 95, insert the following new Clause—
““Local development: survey of area
(1) Secti...
Baroness Greengross | 729 c675-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, localism and the Localism Bill present many opportunities for people of all backgrounds an...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c676-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have Amendments 148ZZA and 148ZZZBA in this group, but they are consistent with the ame...
Lord Greaves | 729 c685-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, said, I and my noble friend Lord Tope, have tabled Amend...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c684-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have tabled Amendment 153AKA in this group. It requires the local authority to prepare ...
Lord Cotter | 729 c683-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this amendment addresses the issue of keeping trade local. I am sure many Members, Ministe...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c681 (Link to this contribution)
Would the Minister repeat what has been placed in the Library this week? Was this today or yesterday...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c681-2 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry, my Lords, my notes here say that it was placed in the House Library this week for inform...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c680-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has been a very useful debate. I do not think that the Committee is very far apart on...
Baroness Greengross | 729 c683 (Link to this contribution)
I thank noble Lords who have supported this amendment and the Minister for responding in the positiv...
Lord Cotter | 729 c683 (Link to this contribution)
148ZZA: Clause 96, page 74, line 15, leave out subsection (2) and insert—
““(2) For subsection (3) (...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c682 (Link to this contribution)
Before the noble Baroness answers, can I thank the Minister for alerting us to the regulations which...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c682-3 (Link to this contribution)
One of the things the Bill provides for, as we have just discussed in Clause 95, is the duty to co-o...
Earl Attlee | 729 c710 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think the noble Lord will have to read the Hansard, but what I said was quite clear and ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c710 (Link to this contribution)
In which case, I am most grateful to the noble Earl.
Amendment 148ZZZBB withdrawn.
Amendments 148Z...
Lord Lucas | 729 c710 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I would certainly like to take up my noble friend’s offer of conversations between now and...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c710 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for a full and indeed very positive, or broadly positive, reply...
Lord Greaves | 729 c710 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful for the fairly positive response to some of the amendments I moved. I look f...
Earl Attlee | 729 c710 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is quite a detailed point. It would probably be safer if I wrote to the noble Lord on...
Lord Beecham | 729 c647 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister has artfully described what an LEP is. Can he tell us what an LEP does? That is the thr...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c644-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by thanking my noble friend Lord Lucas for raising the whole question of rabbits o...
Lord Lucas | 729 c641-2 (Link to this contribution)
I will get around to addressing my amendments in a moment. First, I want to say how much I agree wit...
Lord Beecham | 729 c639-41 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I listened with great care to the remarks of my noble friend Lady Andrews, who is no longe...
Lord Whitty | 729 c638-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, scattered among this vast group of amendments are four amendments of mine. The Committee w...
Lord Cameron of Dillington | 729 c637-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I speak to my Amendment 147M. At Second Reading, I expressed my concerns about the propose...
Lord Cotter | 729 c636-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in speaking to my Amendment 147H to this section of Bill, I want to emphasise the importan...
Baroness Andrews | 729 c635-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord, as usual, has been very assiduous in his amendments. I am grateful to him ...
Lord Greaves | 729 c632-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we now move on to an important clause of the Bill, which provides the ““Duty to co-operate...
Lord Lucas | 729 c652 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps the solution to the difficulty of the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie of Luton, is to re...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c651-2 (Link to this contribution)
It may be easier to consider the detail of the point that the noble Lord has raised when we come to ...
Lord Beecham | 729 c650-1 (Link to this contribution)
To take the Stevenage situation again as an example—there will be others—one authority may say, ““We...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c648-50 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry if I misled the Committee. I am well aware that LEPs are joint bodies, representing the i...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c651 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord has been generous in speaking to all the amendments, but I want to be clear on the ho...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c651 (Link to this contribution)
The process of co-operative working actually requires co-operation and a sense of shared purpose in ...
Lord Beecham | 729 c647 (Link to this contribution)
May I press the Minister a little further? Does an LEP have powers and resources to do these things,...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c647 (Link to this contribution)
What an LEP does is a subject for another debate altogether. However, it is well worth saying that i...
Lord Greaves | 729 c648 (Link to this contribution)
I hear what my noble friend says with interest. First, will he reflect on having just described LEPs...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 729 c648 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, what I am describing is exactly the vehicle through which power is exercised—the duty to c...
Lord Greaves | 729 c632 (Link to this contribution)
147FJ: Clause 95, page 72, line 14, after ““authority,”” insert—
““(b) a marine plan authority, or””...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 729 c642-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have Amendments 147FKA, 147HZA, 147HCA and 147HF in this group, which I will speak to i...
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