Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill

We are here to discuss a short but important Bill. It has been introduced by the Government to pl...

I understand the point that the hon. Lady is making, but does she not welcome the fact that the G...

As I made clear, we are not tabling an amendment on this, but I urge the Minister to consider the...

There is obviously consensus that the Bill is a step in the right direction, and we welcome it, b...

I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, and I agree: sufficient support should be available ...

I agree entirely with what my hon. Friend is saying about the postcode lottery. When I raised tha...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and concur with his remarks. Other issues raised by h...

I understand what the hon. Lady is trying to do, but I do not think her new clause does it, becau...

The purpose of the new clause is not to override the devolved Administrations, which is why it ca...

Has the hon. Lady written to the Scottish Parliament or Administration, or indeed to the Welsh Go...

I have relied on the good offices of the Minister, who is in government, to undertake the duties ...

It was emailed to the hon. Lady and all Committee members this morning.

Just in time!

I thank the Minister.

It is dated 8 May. It was sent over the bank holiday weekend.

That is an opportune time for materials to be sent, as we found out during the urgent questions t...

I am sure that my hon. Friend, like me, welcomes the fact that tenants who have suffered domestic...

That is an important point, and I hope that the Minister will take it on board. The issue needs t...

Before responding to the specific amendments, I would like to say a few words about a number of t...

Women’s refuge places across my constituency, and those other places where women go in the first ...

Sadly, I think the hon. Lady has misunderstood what the Bill is about. Funding for refuges and ot...

It sounds as though the Minister has set her face against amendment 1. Would she consider issuing...

That will certainly be part of the package, yes. I will read out the letter as well, because that...

When I asked the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn) whether there was a way of overridin...

Parliamentary drafting is not an easy task, which is why people with greyer hair than mine do the...

I welcome the reassurance that the Minister has just given us, but the fact is that different loc...

The hon. Gentleman is trying to entice me down a road that I will not go down. This is parliament...

The Minister is being generous in giving way. Under the 2016 Act, housing associations can choose...

That is a slightly different clause, which I will come to in a moment. With that in mind, and tak...

Does the Minister recognise that children who have been through situations of domestic abuse are ...

The hon. Lady brings up an interesting fact that was not discussed in Committee. I will address t...

Is the Minister aware that many local authorities put a limit on the amount of time for which dis...

Indeed. Funding for the years 2018 to 2021 was set out in the summer Budget 2015. Next year, 2018...

Can the Minister confirm that in areas where rental accommodation is extremely expensive, there i...

I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is specifically referring to Northern Ireland or anywher...

In Northern Ireland, we have a discretionary payment that sometimes enables provision to be made ...

Again, I stress that this Bill is England-only, but there are such opportunities. There is a loca...

I am listening carefully to what the Minister is saying. It very much stands at odds with the Con...

Clearly, what the hon. Gentleman is discussing is outside the scope of this Bill, but we are talk...

On election manifestos, does the Minister not agree that this Bill is fulfilling a Conservative m...

I thank my hon. Friend for that very helpful intervention, with which I can only agree.

As ...

First, I welcome the Minister’s comments and the Bill itself. It is a good and necessary Bill, an...

The minimisation of the issue around the bedroom tax seems to be due to the fact that the Bill is...

I absolutely agree. If we could get our housing and welfare systems, which have become fragmented...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips), my fell...

I hope that my right hon. Friend will be pleased to hear that this summer, for the first time eve...

I thank the Minister for those comments. These interventions are driven by that inconsistency in ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the hon. Members for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn) and for Bir...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. That discretion at local level is so important. I have ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for mentioning that, because it gives me the opportunity to say that...

Again in her inimitable style, the Minister has answered another of the points that was raised ea...

I would like to start where the right hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs Miller) finished. I agree ...

The hon. Gentleman is making an important point, but he will have heard the Minister say that she...

I welcome the audit, but the question is what happens afterwards. I would like this to be a statu...

This is an important Bill. I think that we all heard the passion with which the hon. Member for B...

Before coming to this place, I served on my city council, where for a number of years I had respo...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris), who made insightfu...

I am aware that many others wish to speak, so I will be brief. Those who are still left in the Pu...

I rise to speak to new clause 1, which would have a specific impact on local authorities in Scotl...

I want to assure the Minister that at every stage of the Bill, since I have been involved, I have...

I remind the House that before Second Reading, as required by the Standing Order, the Speaker cer...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

I remind hon. Members that, if there is a Division, only Members representing constituencies in E...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I will be very brief, because I be...

I would like to start by thanking my colleagues in this House, in particular my hon. Friends the ...

I welcome the Bill before us today. I also welcome the Minister stating the Government’s wider ai...