Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I support Amendment 37, to which my name is attached. I declare at the outset that I am...

My Lords, in the context of this group of amendments I should also declare my interest as a vice-...

My Lords, I shall seek to redress the balance in this debate by briefly making a contribution in ...

My Lords, I will speak specifically to Amendments 47 and 48C. I will not be anything like as eloq...

My Lords, I speak in favour of the amendments in this group—in particular Amendment 48C in my nam...

My Lords, I have tabled an amendment in this group. I declare my interest as a landlord and a lan...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 48F and 50B, to which I put my name. I am aware that in this...

My Lords, most of the relevant points have been made and I do not want to repeat what other noble...

My Lords, we have had a long debate. Though I am reluctant to detain the Committee for too long, ...

My Lords, we are all familiar with the concept of the starter homes project, which the Government...

My Lords, the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, graphically described why we need more social housing in...

I support this group of amendments, particularly Amendment 48A, so well spoken to by the noble Lo...

My Lords, I will address a number of amendments together. These are Amendment 37 from the noble L...

Can I take the Minister back to the previous debate, where we were talking about the cost of mort...

What I said earlier, and I am sorry if I did not articulate it terribly well, was that the averag...

Each? First, the Minister emphasised “mean” rather than “median”. “Mean” means that three billion...

My Lords, if I take both noble Lords’ figures, a median wage of £21,000 and £24,000 respectively,...

The Minister is assuming that these households have two people working full-time. That does not f...

I was simply giving an example of an average working couple. There are many households in which b...

This whole policy is predicated on the fact that both people are working. All the facts that we a...

My Lords, I was simply giving an example of two people working within a household. It may well be...

So, basically, the point being made is that unless you both work full-time, you will not be able ...

No, my Lords, I was simply giving an example of a couple who work and who are on the average wage...

My Lords, this might help the Minister. I think it is the case that the Government’s figures on w...

To add to that, it is not good enough simply to look at national averages on this issue. You abso...

When the Minister writes, can she specifically say how many residents in Stockport, which is the ...

The noble Lord, Lord Stunell, makes a very good point; for example, would it apply to Norfolk, wh...

The noble Lord is absolutely right. We talked about shared ownership earlier on. It may well be t...

Does the Minister dispute the figures that the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, gave, that in 2018 this...

My Lords, given that some of the figures I have quoted are over the last year, it is possibly sli...

It is not about credit, but about the drop-off point in 2018 and whether there is a continued com...

My Lords, the money is in the Budget. Affordable homes for rent are grant funded. Contrary to wha...

I think the point that the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, made was that this was money agreed in 2015...

Perhaps I may say a few more words. The way the process works for affordable housing is that ther...

I thank the noble Lord. That is a very interesting point. I am sure we will return to it when we ...

Would the noble Lord like me to respond to that point? I am sorry, I have slightly lost track of ...

May I take the Minister a little further on the point that the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, made? I...

I will certainly take the noble Lord’s point back. Our affordable homes funding is front-loaded, ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate today. The noble Lord, Lord Ship...

My Lords, I wonder, having regard to other affordable issues such as affordable transport for mem...

I thank my noble friend. I was getting a bit nervous there; I thought he was going to intervene o...