New Southgate Cemetery [Lords]

My hon. Friend is right. Parliament granted local authority-run cemeteries in London the power to...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, and I am sorry that I was not in the Chamber for ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his interest. Time will tell how many will take up this oppor...

The Bill does not specify the means by which old graves may be reused. My hon. Friend referred to...

Unused graves can be reclaimed by allowing the exclusive right of burial to be properly extinguis...

My hon. Friend may have addressed this at the beginning of his remarks. The predecessors in title...

My hon. Friend is trying to reach into the motivations and the history. At the beginning of my re...

It is great that we are having a debate about the Bill. If I had not tabled a blocking motion, it...

Is it really unreasonable for land set aside to accommodate the dead to occasionally be sold off ...

As I said, I am not opposing the Bill. What is unreasonable is that land retained to bury the dea...

I would gently urge my hon. Friend to recognise that my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping...

I take very much the point my hon. Friend makes, and it is symptomatic of the change in the chara...

I appreciate my hon. Friend’s interest in the Bill, but the crucial point is that the promoters a...

As I understand it, part of the cemetery was sold to the Baha’is because one of their religious l...

One of the reasons I support this Bill is that using our existing burial space more efficiently w...

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point. Not only in her constituency or in this area o...

I rise to urge the House to support this Bill to give new powers to the owners of New Southgate c...

Can my right hon. Friend surmise why those powers have, with one exception, not been exercised?