Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee for being late on parade this morning due to my travel arr...

Does the noble Lord agree that while his figure of a 20% discount may make perfectly good sense i...

The noble Baroness is absolutely right. There is a great temptation to look at this in terms of L...

My Lords, before I speak, I should refer to my previous declarations of interest. I am not sure w...

My Lords, perhaps I may just explain that I was reiterating a piece of evidence that came before ...

My Lords, we should be grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Porter, for his contribution because he h...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Shipley. He knows how greatly I ...

I will clarify that matter. I agree entirely that it would have been much better had the Bill sta...

My Lords, I think the answer is yes.

I have listened with intense interest to the debate. I...

Will the noble Lord expand on his first point, which concerned the situation of stock transfer au...

My Lords, if you do not have a housing revenue account the levy does not apply. Even so, I do not...

Does it not apply under Clause 68?

Clause 67(4) says that a determination may not be made in respect of a local housing authority th...

Yet some of us have been assured, as my noble friend says, that Clause 68(3) was drafted precisel...

My Lords, there is a fairly simple explanation for this. An authority that has already transferre...

My Lords, I had noticed the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake. He will not b...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, for that explanation. In that case, it means that there is...

My Lords, I hope nobody thinks that this is about one type of council cross-subsidising another t...

But councils with retained stock—and that stock is not coming forward as fast as government would...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Porter, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, are in agreement on t...

My Lords, I do not want to delay the Committee on a specific point, but since the noble Lord, Lor...

Confusion has arisen over Clauses 67(4) and 68(3) regarding the ambiguity of the word “disposes”,...

My Lords, I intended to speak on the next group of amendments but, since my noble friend Lord Tru...

My Lords, before I respond to the amendments, I will make, as I did last week, some introductory ...

Could the noble Baroness say whether this will take into account regional and area variations in ...

Can the Minister also tell us whether all this information—and as a result, the Government’s esti...

My Lords, what is absolutely certain is that this is precisely what we will be consulting local a...

We are here on day five in Committee on the Bill and the Government are still part-way through a ...

My Lords, I can confirm that your Lordships’ frustration is equally felt by me.

Will the Minister confirm that this will all be in regulations, none of which we in this House wi...

The most important part of this is that discussions with your Lordships and local authorities wil...

If the Government are placing crucial policy decisions beyond the possibility of amendment in thi...

That will put some of us in a very difficult position. Some of us always refuse to vote on fatal ...

One thing I will commit to is to meet with noble Lords before the draft regulations come in, on a...

I am grateful for the Minister’s offer to have such meetings, but of course they will probably ta...

To answer the noble Lord’s point, I am well aware of what the DPRRC has said about this, and I th...

How is this an efficient use of assets? It seems to me a most cumbersome, inefficient tax and rai...

I think the noble Lord and I will disagree on this but it is incumbent on owners, whether private...

I am intensely aware of just how long we have gone on but I cannot let that point pass. It is ess...

My Lords, it is both but I take the noble Lord’s point. I am sure that, as time goes on, we will ...

My Lords—

If I could just conclude, the noble Baroness can then intervene.

We are making changes in t...

My Lords, it would be helpful if the Minister, when she made the statement about the reduction in...

My Lords, regarding whether the Chancellor benefits, my point is that this will be of benefit to ...

I just want the Minister to understand the importance of this policy. Our red line is the compuls...

I understand what the noble Lord says, and if there is particular need in an area for a specific ...

Am I right to say that those 165 local authorities will be cross-subsidising not only the right t...

The noble Baroness is correct that the policy will apply only in those local authorities that ope...

My Lords, I am not sure that I declared it at the opening of the debate, but I am an elected coun...