Housing and Planning Bill

I am grateful to the noble Lord. Is he therefore saying that the Government know better than the ...

No, I am saying that in many places there is a need for affordable housing. Local authorities may...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I do not disagree with either of your Lordships, but they ...

We will move on, but I will just say to my noble friend that I do not think this is irrelevant. W...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her ongoing efforts to give special consideration to housing i...

My Lords, now that we are at Third Reading, I declare my vice-presidency of the Local Government ...

My Lords, if noble Lords will excuse me, I have a note here because I intend to quote a few peopl...

My Lords, the substance of the noble Lord’s speech, based on his very real experience of South Ho...

I have already made it clear that I will not because the amendment goes beyond that and becomes t...

Perhaps I may add a third Conservative variant to the two that we have already had. The noble Lor...

My Lords, I generally welcome the amendments in this group. There has been a good debate but I am...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for their...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her comprehensive response and thank other noble Lords who too...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

4: Clause 73, page 33, line 20, leave out “req...

Moved by

Lord Kerslake

6: Clause 73, page 33, line 25, at end insert —

“( ) If ...

My Lords, I am grateful for the wide-ranging contributions on this amendment, which have been hea...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

7: Clause 73, page 33, line 26, after “subsect...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

8: Clause 80, page 36, line 28, at end insert—

“( ) make ...

My Lords—

Agreed.

My noble friend is anticipating the result, I hope correctly. This amendment deals with one aspec...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I am not sure why he has chosen the consumer prices index ...

I chose the CPI because it is generally the Government’s preferred option. I thought it might be ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 8 because I have still not been given a satisfactory explanation fo...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for the amendment and, if I may, I will turn to the point made b...

I am sorry to interrupt, but I mentioned two other issues: carer’s allowance and adaptations made...

I think I said at an earlier stage that I want to work through all these issues in regulations to...

I am left unclear. Is the Minister saying on the record that she accepts the substance of the ame...

What I am saying is that noble Lords and I have talked about several things in the round, includi...

I am sorry, but I still do not know what the Minister’s answer is.

I am sorry, but I am at a loss to understand quite where the Minister stands on this. It is a per...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

9: Clause 115, page 53, line 39, leave out “me...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

10: Clause 150, page 77, line 27, leave out fr...

My Lords, during discussion on this measure on Report, I agreed that I would reflect on the comme...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

11: Clause 150, page 78, line 34, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

12: Clause 154, page 81, line 11, after “area”...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

13: Clause 181, page 97, line 38, leave out su...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

14: Clause 196, page 108, line 2, leave out “e...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

15: Clause 214, page 121, line 1, after “secti...

Moved by

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

16: Schedule 7, page 149, line 35, at end inser...

My Lords, we now turn to Amendments 16 to 32, which respond to commitments I gave on Report to br...

I welcome what the Minister has said. It is an improvement on the Bill when first published. I re...

My Lords, I welcome the amendment and what the noble Baroness has said. I have two brief but rela...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for taking on board the concerns that we raised on Report and I am...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her comments and for moving this amendment. As other nob...

I said that this would enable councils to consider appropriate provision for households where the...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

17: Schedule 7, page 150, line 1, leave out “p...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

My Lords, I place on record my thanks to my noble friends Lord Younger, Lady Evans and Lord Bridg...

My Lords, just when you thought it was nearly over, I want to return to the issue raised by the n...

That is not what the amendment says. It does not draw a distinction between the two classes of em...

I was trying to make that clear distinction between those who own the business and those who are ...

I am very sorry, but both have contracts of employment. That is my point.

My Lords, I also thank the Minister for her enormous patience during the passage of this labyrint...

My Lords, as we come to the end of the Bill, I will not start a debate on the regulations, which ...

It is quite unusual for anyone to say anything from this side at this stage, but I support the re...