Housing and Planning Bill

I did not declare my interest earlier because I had declared it the first time I spoke to the Bil...

Moved by

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

16: Clause 17, page 10, line 38, leave out “com...

Moved by

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

20: Clause 22, page 12, line 28, after “satisfi...

Moved by

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

21: Schedule 1, page 103, line 26, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

22: Clause 37, page 18, line 31, ...

My Lords, this group of amendments is about giving tenants and those seeking tenancies access to ...

My Lords, Clause 37 will require the Secretary of State to give every local authority in England ...

My Lords, during the passage of the Bill we have debated extensively the question of who shall ha...

I thank the Minister. I had only just thought of that. Clearly, where somebody can operate across...

I thank the Minister for her response and the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for his contribution on H...

Moved by

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

27: After Clause 38, insert the f...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 28. We heard from the Minister in Committee that the Gov...

My Lords, I have mixed views on this because I recall the great victory of the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, we are supportive of both Amendments 27 and 28 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady ...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, and other noble Lords who have contributed to this sho...

Given that the Government have ensured that there is a register, will the noble Baroness explain ...

As I mentioned, we believe that although it does not have statutory force, in practice it will be...

I thank the noble Baroness for her remarks. I am pleased to hear that there is a register and a c...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

29: After Clause 51, insert the following new ...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

31: Clause 54, page 25, line 16, at end insert...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

32: After Clause 54, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, Amendment 32 is in my name, with the support of my noble friend Lord Beecham and the no...

My Lords, we support this amendment. I remain at a loss as to why the Government do not support t...

My Lords, everybody is of course entitled to live in a decent and well-maintained home that is sa...

My Lords, the answer to the noble Lord’s point is quite simple. Local authorities are not carryin...

I find the point just made by the noble Lord interesting. He is quite right that there are people...

Yes.

Is that the amendment which wants to give everyone a minimum of 36 months’ tenancy?

No.

Well, I will want to speak to that when the time comes.

My Lords, Amendment 32 aims to raise property standards for tenants: an aim that this Government ...

The Minister keeps giving us these assurances. Does she have any stats there, provided by the loc...

I do not think I have the statistics the noble Lord has asked for, but we have seen a significant...

The Minister refers to this pushing up the costs and landlords passing those costs on to tenants....

I will obviously respond to the electrical safety issue in due course. We have put down amendment...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her response, although I feel that it is woefully inadeq...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

33: After Clause 54, insert the following ne...

My Lords, Amendment 33 is tabled in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Tope. It would intro...

My Lords, I do not intend to detain the House for very long on this subject, which I dealt with a...

My Lords, my name is added to these amendments. I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Ha...

I am just wondering whether it is possible to have complied with subsection (2) of the proposed n...

My Lords, Amendments 82 and 92, if approved by the House, will provide an enabling power that wil...

The Minister referred to “a later date”. Can we be given some idea as to the timescale? When are ...

As I said, we want some time to assess all the options, but I will try to come back to the noble ...

Can we be assured that there will be regulations dealing with this matter? Can we have that assur...

Yes, that is the Government’s intention.

In addition, putting the regulatory provisions on ...

My Lords, I thank both my noble friend Lord Campbell-Savours and the noble Lord, Lord Tope, for t...

My Lords, I must announce a correction to the result of the fourth Division. The number voting co...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

35: After Clause 54, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, Amendment 35 seeks to put in the Bill a requirement for the Secretary of State to under...

My Lords, this is an important subject of which I have had direct personal experience. I have fou...

My Lords, if agreed, Amendment 35 would require a review of the tenancy deposit scheme under Sect...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. The noble Baroness, Lady Gardne...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

38: After Clause 54, insert the following new Clause—

“St...

My Lords, this amendment deals with property guardianship schemes, a term with which I was entire...

This is an extremely worrying situation, as the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, explained it. I am not ...

My Lords, I reiterate the point made by my noble friend the Minister during our previous debates....

I am sorry to say that I find that a completely unsatisfactory answer. Once again, I do not blame...