Building Safety Bill

My Lords, I declare my interest as president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents...

My Lords, the noble Baronesses, Lady Harris of Richmond and Lady Brinton, are taking part remotel...

My Lords, I support Amendment 120 in the name of my noble friend Lady Jolly and other noble Lords...

My Lords, I have signed Amendments 122, 123 and 124 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Foster, a...

My Lords, I was delighted to see this amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly. As she point...

My Lords, before I remark on Amendments 122, 123 and 124, I express my surprise that we still hav...

My Lords, I, too, declare an interest as vice-president of RoSPA. I shall not take too long, howe...

My Lords, I will briefly speak in support of Amendment 120— I will call it the safer-stairs amend...

My Lords, safety has a cost, as the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans reminded us. W...

My Lords, I added my name to the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Foster, which the noble Baro...

My Lords, it has been an interesting debate about two very different but important aspects of saf...

We had the tragedy of Grenfell, and I am worried that we are doing a lot of different things in t...

I appreciate where the noble Baroness is coming from, but I still think there should be parity ac...

My Lords, it has been an absolutely fascinating debate. This is very much the additional safety m...

Shall I take over?

No.

Has the noble Lord been drinking?

I have not been drinking. I have had some Polos. In fact, I am not drinking anything at all.

Oh!

“Shortly” is better than “in due course”.

Absolutely.

Social homes are already safer than homes of other tenures in respect of electrical safety. In 20...

Perhaps I am the only person in the room who does not know what updating the approved document ac...

Effectively, the Building Act 1984 has various approved documents, and Approved Document K would ...

My Lords, this has been a really fascinating debate. We have a listening Minister, and it looks a...

Dates?

I live in Cornwall, and we do things dreckly. For the moment, I am happy to withdraw the amendmen...

Before we move on, could I just say we have quite a lot more to get through this evening, and we ...

Moved by

Lord Foster of Bath (LD)

121: After Clause 133, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I will try my very best to be as quick as I can, as I have tried to in all my contribut...

I owe the noble Lord an apology. It was my fault for getting it in the wrong order. I have been t...

The noble Baroness is forgiven entirely, and let us hope she will come to support the amendment a...

My Lords, I also have an amendment in this group. In thinking about what the noble Lord, Lord Fos...

I am delighted to take that point on district heating back to the department. It will become an i...

My Lords, in my remarks, I went out of my way to praise the current Government for the promises a...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

132: After Clause 133, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I move Amendment 132 in my name on the subject of external wall fire assessments. I did...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt. The Minister has had to leave to deal with a pressing personal...

My Lords, the Committee will adjourn for five minutes.

7.04 pm

My Lords, as I was saying, the Committee will know that there has been a serious problem aggravat...

My Lords, I will probably disappoint the noble Baroness a little, but I hope that I can also give...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, for raising an important issue. There i...

My Lords, I should perhaps explain that, while I am a RICS member and fellow and a registered val...

My Lords, I rise briefly to speak to Amendment 132 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Nevill...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for her amendment. It has been a fascinating...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend, particularly for giving the figures. Before Report, it would b...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

132A: After Clause 133, insert the following n...

Noble Lords may have noticed that I am not my noble friend Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, but I am...

I am listening.

I am so sorry—I thank the noble Baroness.

These amendments create an obligation for local a...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for introducing these two amendments. When I re...

My Lords, I shall be brief, because there will probably be another vote soon in the House. We are...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for tabling her amendments, so ably introduced by the n...

I thank the noble Baroness for her response, and I will of course check the Environmental Protect...

Moved by

Lord Greenhalgh

133: Clause 135, page 142, line 20, at end insert—

““b...

Moved by

Lord Aberdare

136A: After Clause 135, insert the following new Clause—