Housing and Planning Bill

Indeed, but I suspect that that is part of the Government’s rationale.

Labour will be suppo...

The Minister was talking about amendment 47. The important principle of the Khan amendment is tha...

My hon. Friend has asked the Minister to make that confirmation, but I doubt that he will take he...

Can my hon. Friend help me understand how Government Members are simultaneously arguing that a ho...

I look forward to the Minister’s answer to my hon. Friend’s question.

Such people, however,...

Does the hon. Lady agree with the principle of means-testing tenants in properties that are set a...

As the hon. Gentleman sat on the Bill Committee, he should know that a voluntary scheme is alread...

I am deeply worried that the hon. Lady cannot seem to agree with those housing charity chief exec...

In the main, council housing in this country is allocated on the basis of need.

Does the hon. Lady agree that the hard-working families who we see in our surgeries—I certainly s...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a really good point; that person will get absolutely nothing.

rose—

I have already given way to the hon. Lady.

Lords amendment 54 would limit the damage of pay...

Let me bring the hon. Lady back to her earlier comment about social housing being allocated accor...

I do not accept most of what the hon. Gentleman says. What we must do is build lots more council ...

I thank the hon. Lady for her response to my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Ja...

As the hon. Lady knows, many people in this country and, I am sure, in her constituency, are on c...

I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

I am...

Most of us on the Opposition Benches would agree that a starter home for a young family is a grea...

I have great respect for the hon. Lady and the work she does on her Committee, but, with great re...

It was a great pleasure to serve with my hon. Friend on the Bill Committee. She touches on an int...

Indeed. Those happy days in November and December that we all spent together in Committee were an...

I am a London MP. It might be difficult for Members who are not London MPs to understand how diff...

I will let other London MPs respond more fully on the particular London issues.

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will make a little progress—otherwise, I will be up and down like a fiddler’s elbow.

Let ...

Earlier the hon. Lady actually made the case for a more localist approach. She said she was not a...

I have the greatest respect for the hon. Gentleman, but the Lords amendments would hold the proce...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am afraid I am going to make a little more progress.

Developers and builders want certain...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it is the small builders who actually get on and build, whereas th...

I agree. Given how small builders are funded and run, they are not land banking in the same way. ...

The most astounding thing about the Government’s proposals is that we are expected to make decisi...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course I give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is a member of the Select Committee.

The hon. Gentleman will remember the clear evidence given by David Orr of the National Housing Fe...

We had evidence from various housing associations about how they were going to respond to the pro...

Does my hon. Friend share my concern that research commissioned by the Local Government Associati...

Yes. It is interesting that my hon. Friend mentions the LGA, which argued very strongly, on a cro...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way on that brilliant point. Does he agree with some c...

Potentially it does, because driving out all the people on slightly higher incomes and removing p...

While I have sympathy with some of the points the hon. Gentleman is making, does he not accept th...

I would argue this: let us tackle the scarcity. Let us start a building programme of 100,000 soci...

The House will probably be aware that I am passionate about home ownership and about helping peop...

I make no apologies for returning to the issue of London, because that is where housing need is s...

Will the hon. Lady join me in welcoming the fact that in London, for every single high-value unit...

No, I do not welcome that at all. As we heard in the superb speech from the Front Bench by my hon...

It is interesting to hear about the housing market in London, but does the hon. Lady recognise th...

Funnily enough, that is almost the thrust of my argument. Things that are applicable in the hon. ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck), although I suspect th...

Is there not an issue of fairness and social equality here? It was reported today that 25% of the...

It is quite clear that we want a more democratic system in which people have the opportunity to b...

What does the hon. Gentleman think of the suggestion recently made by one of my constituents that...

It is quite clear there should be an opportunity for everyone to exercise the right to buy. In Lo...

Is the hon. Gentleman therefore saying that pay to stay is intended to drive people out of social...

No. This is where there might be differences between London and the south-east, and other parts o...

The hon. Gentleman has had much to say about pay to stay, but has he looked at the Government’s o...

If individuals are not contributing additional rent towards the social rent they are being charge...

We have just heard about the land held by TfL, and Labour Members are seeking guarantees that hou...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not give way now as I want to get into my stride.

7.30 pm

My hon. Friend the M...

Order. I am not going to impose a time limit, but there are still 10 Members who wish to speak in...

I will speak specifically against Lords amendment 54. Local authorities should not have local dis...

My hon. Friend has jogged my memory. Unfortunately, I forgot to declare my entry in the Register ...

I welcome my hon. Friend’s doing so, because it shows the kind of principles that we should uphol...

My hon. Friend is making a very strong case. Does she remember the time, not that long ago—about ...

I welcome that reminder from my hon. Friend. Like him, I urge people to vote Conservative in city...

I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak, because I know that many oth...

Does my right hon. Friend also recognise that there is a phenomenon known as “right to buy to let...

It is a phenomenal waste of resources. Usually, although we play party politics and there are div...

I will try to be a little more sober in my approach to this debate. It is a privilege to be able ...

Is not one problem in this debate that a property will be sold for a certain value—the open-marke...

I completely agree. The sale of one high-value asset in a high-value area, such as Oxford, could ...

I am a member of Sutton Housing Society Ltd, although I have no pecuniary interest.

I will ...

I start by declaring my housing interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. They i...

I congratulate their Lordships on their meticulous and effective scrutiny of the Housing and Plan...

Opposition Members have made the point that starter homes will be built, rather than affordable h...

Does the hon. Gentleman dispute the figures given by the Office for National Statistics, which ha...

I am not aware of the figures to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred, but, according to t...

Will my hon. Friend join me in welcoming the fact that, over the last eight years, the current Ma...

I welcome the building of properties for all tenures, because lack of supply is at the heart of t...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake).

I shal...

I draw colleagues’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

L...

With the leave of the House, I shall respond to the debate. I thank all Members who have spoken a...

I must remind the House that the motion relates exclusively to England. A double majority is ther...

I remind the House that the motion relates exclusively to England. A double majority is therefore...

I must now put the Questions necessary to dispose of the remaining Lords amendments in the group....

I must now put the Question on the remaining Lords amendments that have not been certified.