Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I should repeat my declaration from last week that I am a vice-president of the Local G...

My Lords, I very much agree with the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Shipley. Obviously, I we...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of the amendment and in doing so repeat my interests a...

My Lords, perhaps I may seek clarification that we are talking only about nominations to boards o...

My Lords, I can see where the noble Viscount, Lord Younger, is coming from with these amendments ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this very short debate. I particularly a...

Just for absolute clarity, can the Minister confirm that we are talking about nomination rights f...

Indeed, that is correct.

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78B: Clause 91, page 39, line 36, after “administ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 78B to 78YW, tabled in the name of my noble friend the Mini...

My Lords, I do not know whether other noble Lords have been watching it, but there has been a ver...

My Lords, I rise with some trepidation to speak against government Amendment 78P. I heard what th...

My Lords, I hope that I can provide some reassurance arising from a couple of questions on this s...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78C: Clause 92, page 40, line 17, leave out subse...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78F: Clause 93, page 40, line 25, leave out subse...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78G: After Clause 93, insert the following new Cl...

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78J: Clause 95, page 42, line 21, leave out “obje...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78L: Clause 96, page 43, line 19, leave out from ...

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78P: After Clause 97, insert the following new Cl...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78Q: Schedule 5, page 117, line 16, leave out “75...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YG: Clause 98, page 44, line 36, leave out para...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YJ: Clause 99, page 45, line 18, leave out para...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YL: Clause 100, page 45, line 34, leave out par...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YP: Clause 101, page 46, line 24, leave out par...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YS: Clause 102, page 47, line 21, leave out par...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YU: Clause 103, page 47, line 33, leave out “ob...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YV: Clause 109, leave out Clause 109

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

78YW: Clause 111, page 51, leave out lines 12 and...

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Lord Kerslake (CB)

79: Clause 113, leave out Clause 113

My Lords, the purpose of this amendment is to remove from the Bill the provision for mandatory fi...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 80ZB in my name and that of the right reverend Prelate the...

My Lords, my brother bishop, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans, as we have heard...

My Lords, I shall first speak to Amendment 80ZB, although my name is not attached to it, in the n...

My Lords, may I ask the Minister a question, if she will listen to what I am saying? Perhaps thos...

My Lords, I shall make a brief intervention in support of the policy of bringing to an end lifeti...

My Lords, I associate myself with the comments made by my noble friend Lord Young in support of t...

My Lords, I had no intention of speaking at this point because I have an amendment in the next gr...

I congratulate my worthy successor as chairman of the Local Government Association on disabusing ...

My Lords, before I turn to the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lady Williams it may be ...

May I seek clarification? I made an important distinction between having a permissive power and m...

Yes, I can clarify that. I fear that I will have to find out what has happened on the equality st...

Will the Minister clarify what she said at the beginning of her reply—that local authorities woul...

We will discuss this issue in more detail on the next group of amendments. However, we have shown...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, I would like to understand what “in certain circumst...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

79A: After Clause 113, insert the following ne...

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Lord Kennedy of Southwark

80: Schedule 7, page 129, line 29, leave out from ...

My Lords, I intend to speak fairly briefly to this amendment. I heard what the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, if I appear to be somewhat of an interloper in these considerations, having not spoken ...

My Lords, I will speak in favour of Amendment 80AZB in my name and against the amendment in the n...

My Lords I rise to support this group of amendments and, in particular, Amendments 80A and 80AZB....

I have absolutely no knowledge about what the Minister is or is not going to do, but I live in ho...

If, having lived in hope, the noble Lord, Lord Porter, is disappointed and wishes to test the opi...

My Lords, I was not intending to get involved in this debate but the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, sp...

We may need to carry this on outside the Chamber. That is not a taxpayer subsidy: the money is co...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Bassam, Lord Beecham, Lord Kennedy, Lord Watson and Lord ...

I am grateful to the Minister. As she will know, we have the last day of Report on Monday and Thi...

My Lords, we are acutely aware of the timing issues, so yes, I give that assurance. I fear that i...

We have had a wonderful time, have we not? I thank everyone who has spoken in this short debate. ...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

80ZA: Schedule 7, page 130, line 8, at end insert...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

80AA: Schedule 7, page 135, line 3, leave out fro...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

81ZA: After Clause 114, insert the following new ...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

81ZB: Schedule 8, page 143, line 31, after “tenan...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

82: Before Clause 115, insert the following new C...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

92: Before Clause 115, insert the following new C...

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Lord Beecham

93A: Clause 115, page 53, line 11, at end insert—

“(c) se...

My Lords, I move the amendment, which is in my name and that of the right reverend Prelate the Bi...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 94. I support wholeheartedly the comments of the noble L...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendments 93A and 94, powerfully advocated by my noble friend Lord ...

My Lords, I shall contribute briefly to this short debate. I spoke in Committee to support the Go...

My Lords, I support the amendment and support the words of my noble friend Lady Bakewell and the ...

My Lords, I very much take on board the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, about showmen...

My Lords, I have found it helpful to have a further discussion on this matter, now that we are at...

Can the Minister say what the shortfall is in local authorities’ assessment of the housing needs ...

I will write to the noble Baroness to answer that question fully.

I thank the Minister for that response, but will he take it a little further? The ease with which...

Surely the noble Lord knows that that is not the case. He used to be in the department where surv...

I believe I answered the question earlier by saying that there is an obligation to look at the ne...

My Lords, I listened with interest to the noble Viscount. It seems to me that the Government are ...

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Lord Kennedy of Southwark

95B: Clause 117, page 54, line 37, leave out “as a...

My Lords, Amendment 95B in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Beecham proposes to leave out...

My Lords, as I have said in earlier Committee and Report debates, the measures in Part 5 mark the...

I thank the Minister for his response. As I said, generally the provisions in respect of the priv...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

96: Schedule 9, page 148, line 12, after “satisfi...

My Lords, I now turn to Amendments 96 and 97, which have been tabled in response to issues raised...

My Lords, we discussed these matters in Committee and, as the Minister said, they were raised by ...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

97: Schedule 9, page 150, line 27, at end insert—...