Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, while the House is reorganising itself, I, too, would like to welcome my noble friend L...

My Lords, on behalf of these Benches, I support Amendments 98 and 99 tabled by the noble Baroness...

My Lords, I join others in welcoming the return of the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, my old sparri...

My Lords, I remind the House that often we are talking about families. Some time ago, I accompani...

I again thank my noble friend Lady Gardner for her amendments, which seek to address overcrowding...

I thank the Minister for that detailed answer. I feel that she has not covered a couple of points...

If the landlord is a rogue landlord and the local authority is investigating, it can recover the ...

That does not really answer the point because I was not talking about a rogue landlord; I was tal...

As I said, the key issue is that where there is overcrowding, particularly within a flat, it coul...

We are going nowhere on this because I am getting answers to the other half of the question and n...

Yes, I am happy to take that away.

On that basis, I will not press my amendments.

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

99ZA: After Clause 120, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, Amendment 99ZA reflects an amendment that I moved in Committee. It received general app...

My Lords, we on the Opposition Benches entirely endorse the proposals made by the noble Lord, con...

My Lords, I hope that I can honour that approach. However, before I begin, I will take this oppor...

I am very grateful to my noble friend.

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

99A: After Clause 120, insert the following new Clause...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

99B: After Clause 121, insert the following ...

My Lords, this manuscript amendment is in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Chil...

My Lords, given the length of today’s manuscript amendments, I propose that the House dispense wi...

My Lords, I thank the Deputy Speaker for not reading out the amendment; I have read it so many ti...

My Lords, I, too, am pleased to see the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, in her place. I have fond me...

I join this parliamentary lovefest briefly to join others in congratulating the Minister on accep...

My Lords, I am not entirely sticking to a script. In saying that, though, I hope I can reflect th...

All I can say is thank you.

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

99C: After Clause 121, insert the following ...

Moved by

Baroness Gardner of Parkes

101: After Clause 124, insert the following new C...

My Lords, this is an issue about which I feel quite strongly. I cannot understand why in order to...

My Lords, I have spoken only about twice on this Bill but I must declare an interest as a vice-pr...

My Lords, how lovely it is to see the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, back in her place. It is reall...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments and, in so doing, I declare my interests as a vice-p...

My Lords, as this is my first contribution to Report today, I refer noble Lords to my declaration...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Gardner for her amendments on leasehold, which have led to...

My Lords, a particular problem arises which I do not think has been dealt with in the legislation...

The noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, was extremely helpful in debates on this matter in Committ...

If the House will indulge me, that offer is welcome, but it is fair to say that no one could accu...

My Lords, the comments that have been made are very interesting and I am grateful to all those wh...

I hope I have reassured my noble friend that we want to look not just at the content of these two...

Is my noble friend saying that it might be possible to deal with these issues through variations ...

I did not say that and I would not want to give any guarantees before Third Reading, but I have g...

It sounds as if there is a bit more interest than there often is on this subject. People have bee...

Moved by

Baroness Parminter

102ZA: After Clause 128, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, in Committee there was widespread support for the measures of both this Government and ...

My Lords, I support this amendment, to which I spoke at greater length in Committee. I shall summ...

My Lords, I support this amendment. Noble Lords may recall that we had two different amendments i...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. In doing so, I declare two interests, one of which I ha...

My Lords, I support this important amendment. It is important because we are talking about the gr...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak to these amendments and I do not really want to, but I need...

My Lords, if I might share just one thought with the Minister, does this amendment not chime nice...

My Lords, this issue was debated during consideration in Committee. I support the devolution of p...

My Lords, Amendment 102ZA has enabled us to revisit our discussion on a proposed community right ...

I thank the Minister for that reply and for the support we have had from right round the House, w...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

102A: Clause 129, page 62, line 41, leave out “in...

My Lords, throughout this Bill we have discussed the importance of local plans in setting out the...

My Lords, I should like to ask the Minister some questions about the application of this innocuou...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I am trying to follow this amendment and the deba...

My Lords, it will be interesting to see whether the Minister takes that as being the basis of thi...

My Lords, can the noble Viscount, Lord Younger, say a little more about these amendments? As has ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their interventions in this very short debate. I hope that I wi...

For the purposes of clarification, can my noble friend be very clear about this? The amendment we...

That is absolutely correct. If it had not be clarified before, it must be clarified. It is simply...

Can the noble Lord give us more information about where these areas are? Clearly he must have a l...

I can certainly write to the noble Lord with that specific detail, but, clearly, we are very wise...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

102B: Clause 129, page 62, line 43, at end insert...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

102C: Clause 136, page 67, line 6, after “for” insert “housing ...

My Lords, the declared aim of the Government’s promotion of the concept of permission in principl...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments for the simple reason that the point made so ably by...

My Lords, my noble friend has done the House a service in identifying what is at the very least s...

My Lords, I did not intend to contribute to this debate but, having seen the amendments and heard...

My Lords, the noble Lord has just pointed out some very germane issues that go to the heart of th...

My Lords, I am pleased to have the opportunity to open further discussion on the permission in pr...

The noble Baroness seems to be speaking to amendments in the next group.

My Lords, I am just giving a brief overview and shall now move on to the amendments. They were in...

Given what the Minister has just said about the measure being for housing-led development, does t...

My Lords, I am afraid it does not, because the amendments limit the type of development suitable ...

Can I be clear that the secondary legislation will be via the affirmative procedure rather than t...

I can absolutely confirm that to the noble Lord.

The supplementary information that we received from the Minister’s department indicated that it w...

Can the Minister not help the House by coming back with an amendment at Third Reading which simpl...

My Lords, I apologise to the House because I have just made a statement that was not true. The Go...

The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee advised the Government not to make policy wh...

My Lords, that is why we are reluctant to place something in the Bill while consultation is ongoi...

I am sorry to return to the remarks that the Minister made in paragraph 36 of the response to the...

My Lords, I have paragraph 36 before me, and it refers to future uses. But I have always been cle...

I accept the Minister’s word for that, but that is all the more reason to build it into the Bill....

My Lords, I can confirm today that it is the Government’s intention to have housing-led developme...

Will the Minister just clarify something? The forthcoming group of Government amendments do not m...

My Lords, I hope that noble Lords will feel that they are relevant. With that, as I say, I ask th...

My Lords, I am not prepared to withdraw the amendment. I am sorry that the Minister is in such a ...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

103: Clause 136, page 67, line 7, at end inser...

My Lords, it is my pleasure to turn to the government amendments we are making to the permission ...

My Lords, the Minister has kindly explained the changes which are to be made following the amendm...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 107ZZB in this group, which is a sort of clause stand...

My Lords, I had not planned to comment on these issues, because my experience is limited. I remin...

My Lords, Amendment 107ZZB in this group, in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Andrews, wo...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate. Let me clarify that ...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

104: Clause 136, page 67, line 28, leave out “...

Moved by

Baroness Andrews

107ZZA: Clause 136, page 69, line 2, at end insert —

...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group which deal with slightly different issues. The firs...

My Lords, I contribute briefly in respect of Amendment 107ZZA simply to say that I did not agree ...

My Lords, I voice my thanks, again, for the time taken by noble Lords, including the noble Barone...

May I just correct the noble Baroness? I thought there were 850 responses. That is not my main po...

I apologise to the noble Baroness; maybe my writing is playing up. I accept that that if there we...

Is the noble Baroness saying, on that basis, that she can assure me that if the weight of opinion...

My Lords, I totally admire the noble Baroness for the way she is pressing me on this. At this sta...

I am happy to withdraw my amendment. I appreciate that it is not easy, not having seen the consul...

Moved by

Baroness Andrews

107ZA: Schedule 12, page 161, line 27, leave out sub-paragr...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

In moving this Motion, may I suggest that the Report stage begin again not before 8.30 pm precise...

My Lords, if I may add a rider to that, anyone who is interested in my Amendment 107A had better ...