UK Parliament / Open data

Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 23 November 2018, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Best. The answering member was Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth.
Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

794 cc449-472 

Session

2017-19

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill 2017-19. Brought from the Commons.
Monday, 29 October 2018
Bills
House of Lords
Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill: Briefing for Lords Stages
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Research briefings
Deposited Paper DEP2018-1267
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Deposited papers
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Best | 794 cc450-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords I begin by declaring my interests as in the register and, in particular, as a part-owner...

Lord Horam | 794 cc452-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we are all grateful to my noble friend Lord Best for piloting this limited but importan...


Show all contributions (17)
Baroness Grender | 794 cc454-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, good Bills on housing are like buses: you wait ages and then three come along at roughl...

Bishop of Rochester | 794 cc456-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Best, for his advocacy of this Bill in your L...

Lord Tope | 794 cc459-461 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I join everyone in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Best, for introducing this Bill in thi...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 794 cc461-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lord Best on bringing this Bill to the House and Kar...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 794 cc462-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I join the debate on the Bill because I am very interested in the subject and have alwa...

Lord Shipley | 794 cc464-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I remind the House that I am a vice-president of the Local Government Association. This...

Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 794 cc465-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as other noble Lords have done, I refer the House to my relevant registered interest as...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 794 cc468-471 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. I am not at all surprised th...

Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 794 c470 (Link to this contribution)

We will come back to this on the Tenant Fees Bill. I thought compensation was for when you suffer...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 794 c470 (Link to this contribution)

If it helps the Minister, I did not immediately realise he was talking about exemplary damages be...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 794 c470 (Link to this contribution)

I totally agree. We will perhaps come back to this but we are not debating it in this Bill.

Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 794 c470 (Link to this contribution)

I am certainly not talking about exemplary damages, but what if a landlord has been prosecuted an...

Baroness Grender | 794 c470 (Link to this contribution)

What we were looking at when I tabled the amendment in Committee was compensation for expenses bu...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 794 c472 (Link to this contribution)

Without the conflating the two, it begins to sound like exemplary damages to me, but we will come...

Lord Best | 794 c472 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I give deep thanks to everyone who has participated. Every Member of this House who spo...

Back to top