Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, the Government’s attempt to solve the current housing crisis needs, at the same time, t...

My Lords, I support the amendment. I put my name to it because I believe that, as the noble Baron...

My Lords, I am very pleased to join the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, and the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, in supporting my noble friend Lady Parminter’s amendment, I echo the words of both the ...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. When the Select Committee, of which I was also a member,...

My Lords, during the previous Parliament, we discussed this policy in some detail in other Bills....

My Lords, I had not really intended to intervene in this debate because better, more knowledgeabl...

My Lords, I support the amendment. I do so as somebody who in the other place proposed the Sustai...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate at all until I heard what I can only describ...

My Lords, Amendment 54A, moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, has our full support. As no...

My Lords, first, I applaud the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, for braving the Chamber today with...

My Lords—

Perhaps I may make some progress. We all recognise the need to build more homes, and they should ...

Can the noble Lord comment on that question? The noble Lord who spoke before indicated that the c...

Yes, I was just coming to that point. The noble Lord, Lord Stunell, raised the issue of costs. Re...

Will the Minister reaffirm that his brief tells him that the additional cost would be £3,000 per ...

That is the figure I have mentioned and I am very happy to reaffirm that. However, in the same br...

Can the Minister confirm that his brief contains a full cost-benefit analysis of these additional...

This is definitely getting into a technical area, and I am happy to write to the noble Lord with ...

May I ask a non-technical question—I am about as technical as the Minister—if £3,000 is an excess...

I reiterate the figure that we have. I am very happy to write to the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, an...

It is not about how the Government reached that figure but what, in their eyes, would be an accep...

I wonder whether the Minister might clear up a confusion that is arising in my mind. It strikes m...

It does depend on where in the country we are talking about. Prices, as we know, can go up or dow...

I am very grateful to the Minister for that. He is absolutely right to point out that any governm...

Before the Minister replies to that, perhaps I may follow up the point made by my noble friend La...

I listened carefully to the evidence produced by the noble Lord, Lord Foster. Of course, I am ver...

Before the Minister does so, could he tell us what evidence he has taken on the connection betwee...

The evidence is pretty strong from the Federation of Master Builders, but in the same letter that...

The Minister suggested to my noble friend Lady Hollis that people would not be able to pass on th...

Yes, it is at build cost rather than purchasing cost.

I assume that the builder would pass that on when they sold their houses and make sure that it wa...

The point is that the onus of the £3,000 is on the housebuilding sector.

Of course, the properties are bought at the end of the day; that is what they are built for. That...

My Lords, can I declare all of my interests, although we might be here forever? I am chairman of ...

My Lords, I had concluded my speech, but my noble friend made an interesting and useful intervent...

I thank the Minister for his comments and I will be understandably brief, but I was very disappoi...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

55: Clause 62, page 28, line 8, at end insert “with the exclusi...

My Lords, the Committee will now deploy its energies to the part of the Bill that deals with the ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 56 and 57A. In doing so, I add my support to the other amen...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 57B, tabled in my name, and also Amendment 57D, where I am an...

My Lords, I support Amendment 56, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, to which I have adde...

My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my interests as a vice-president of the LGA and a counc...

My Lords, the amendments reflect an effort to address concerns about adequate housing provision, ...

My Lords, we are now deep into the debate on the implementation of the voluntary right to buy for...

My Lords, it is very good to hear from the victor of 1983, if I may call the noble Lord that. It ...

Perhaps the noble Lord would take it from me that it is not housing associations that I do not tr...

I am sorry but from the noble Lord’s remarks I felt that he showed a lack of trust in the motivat...

Is the noble Lord then suggesting that a housing association would have the right to say, “You ca...

Indeed, the right to buy is at the behest of the housing association. It can decide whether a hou...

I am sure that the situation has got a lot better but the figures I have are from 2013 and 2014, ...

With respect, financing is a different issue, which we are not discussing on these amendments.