Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, your Lordships’ Amendments 37 and 184 taken together would make the Secretary of State’...

My Lords, I rise to speak in favour of Motion D1, in my name. These amendments take on board the ...

My Lords, I rise to speak against Motion D1. Again, that is very difficult to do given that the s...

My Lords, the form of Motion C is slightly puzzling as compared with the previous Motion put to t...

My Lords, perhaps I may just say a few words on that point. The amendment before you today differ...

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting the noble Lord, but the rules of Report apply at this mome...

My apologies. I was simply trying to explain why I do not believe that this amendment cuts across...

My Lords, I will just briefly add to what my noble friends have said. In the first instance, it i...

My Lords, first, I remind the House of my vice-presidency of the Local Government Association. I ...

My Lords, I strongly endorse the sentiments of the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and refer to my loca...

My Lords, I begin by thanking my noble friend Lord Lansley for explaining the process of financia...

Do I understand the Minister to be saying that the Government do not have an estimate of the amou...

I will come to that question in a few seconds.

The noble Lord, Lord Shipley, talked about t...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

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Lord Kerslake

My Lords, I am grateful for all the contributions to this debate. I shall keep my comments short....

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

My Lords, we return again to the issue of the Government’s policy for high-income social tenants....

My Lords, I rise to speak to Motion F1. I was grateful indeed to noble Lords throughout the House...

My Lords, I will speak briefly. I welcome the movement by the Minister on this issue, and there h...

My Lords, I was going to speak passionately in favour of Motions F1 and H1. There is now no need ...

My Lords, like other noble Lords, I welcome the movement that has been made in this policy area, ...

I agree with the noble Lord—

The noble Baroness must be so pleased to be getting towards the end of this. I do not blame her a...

My Lords, I apologise for—

Sorry, I have received a prompt from my noble friend Lady Hollis, to ask what the estimate is—I a...

I am grateful to the Minister. I was going to ask my noble friend to ask the Minister to make it ...

I hope the noble Baroness will indulge me, because the Government have come to this policy positi...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

My Lords, I recognise the clear support in this House for a neighbourhood right of appeal and the...

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Baroness Parminter

My Lords, we all believe that neighbourhood plans deliver more homes. However, it is not just a b...

My Lords, it is remiss of the Government not to accept the amendment agreed by your Lordships’ Ho...

I intend the following as a purely positive question because I have not read anything about this....

As I understand it, this gives a right to the local parish council or neighbourhood forum to be i...

The point I was making is that it is a third party right of appeal. It is a fairly fundamental pr...

I think that the noble Lord is right but I might get clarification and come back to that before I...

Before the noble Baroness sits down, she originally implied that local authorities and planning c...

My Lords, I stand by my assertion that the Government’s amendment offers nothing beyond that whic...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

My Lords, it should be noted that there was very strong support in the other place to reject Amen...

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Baroness Parminter

My Lords, the new homes we wish to be built must, at the same time, meet our greenhouse gas targe...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter. As she has said, it is m...

My Lords, Motion K1, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, is very welcome and if sh...

My Lords, this House can rightly press the Government to strengthen energy standards where it is ...

The noble Viscount has relied on the Federation of Master Builders now for every debate on this i...

I deliberately use the Federation of Master Builders because it is prominent in the industry. I c...

I would be interested to see a list of those other organisations. Up to now, all I have heard fro...

As I say, I am very happy indeed to write to the noble Lord with a full and further list.

I thank noble Lords who have participated in this debate and echo the comments of the noble Lord,...

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

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Viscount Younger of Leckie

My Lords, the Commons has insisted that this amendment be rejected with a strong majority. It is ...

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Baroness Parminter

My Lords, the purpose of the amendment is to ensure that the new homes that we want are built wit...

My Lords, I shall be very brief in speaking in support of this amendment, because we have heard t...

My Lords, I have not spoken in this part of these deliberations. I draw your Lordships’ attention...

My Lords, as we have heard, the amendment would ensure that new homes are built with sustainable ...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting and short debate, and I shall be brief. I hope that no...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, and the noble Lord, ...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

My Lords, Amendment 111 implemented a number of the DPRRC’s recommendations. It also took steps t...

My Lords, tempted though I am to indulge in a forensic examination of this complex and crucial am...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford