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Greater London Authority Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 12 December 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Yvette Cooper. The answering member was Jacqui Lait.
Greater London Authority Bill. Second reading debate agreed to on division (320 to 151). Programme motion for proceedings on Committee, Report and Third reading agreed to on division (321 to 146). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal).
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
454 c751-843 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Greater London Authority Bill . Explanatory Notes Bill 11-EN also published.
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Yvette Cooper | 454 c754 (Link to this contribution) I will allow the hon. Gentleman the opportunity to condemn the proposals of Conservative members of ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c753 (Link to this contribution) I will, but then I need to make some more progress.

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Yvette Cooper | 454 c753 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be aware that, later this week, we are publishing a planning policy statement...
David Burrowes | 454 c753 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. The Minister’s reference to climate change is laudable, but why is there no reference...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c752 (Link to this contribution) I shall come on to discuss housing and planning proposals in more detail shortly, but the hon. Gentl...
Richard Ottaway | 454 c752 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister moves on from discussing housing, will she explain why the Mayor is better equip...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c753 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, our proposals on skills are being taken forward in another Bill and the...
Andrew Pelling | 454 c753 (Link to this contribution) The Minister emphasised the value of giving responsibilities for skills to London government, so why...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) I hope the hon. Gentleman will, therefore, confirm that the Conservatives did not ask the people of ...
Mark Field | 454 c751 (Link to this contribution) I shall not rise to such arrant nonsense. However, perhaps the Minister will admit that not only the...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c751 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will take some responsibility for that shameful decision.
Yvette Cooper | 454 c751 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill is about backing London, one of th...
Mark Field | 454 c782 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that flexibility is needed for housing targets, especially in inn...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c783 (Link to this contribution) When we were in the by-ways of Westminster, I was taken back to my days as leader of the Labour grou...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c782-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to associate the hon. Gentleman too much with his local authority, but when I hear the...
Greg Hands | 454 c783 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is a certain irony in the fact that Westminster City counci...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c783 (Link to this contribution) I take with a pinch of salt the protestations of Tory Members and Tory councils that they have real ...
Andrew Love | 454 c784 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to my hon. Friend’s argument. Is not the critical factor that there are dif...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c783-4 (Link to this contribution) To respond to the hon. Gentleman’s second point, it all depends on how the question is put, although...
Michael Gove | 454 c784 (Link to this contribution) Another stunning performance for Labour!
Andy Slaughter | 454 c784 (Link to this contribution) I certainly support that view and I wish only that Conservative councils in my constituency supporte...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c784-5 (Link to this contribution) I hear an uncharacteristically cheap point, shouted from a sedentary position by the hon. Member for...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c778 (Link to this contribution) My issue with the congestion charge was that the Mayor and those in authority would not acknowledge ...
Tom Brake | 454 c777-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford), and I w...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c781 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill and shall confine my comments to its housing and planning aspects. When my hon. F...
Tom Brake | 454 c780-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that helpful clarification. It is important to note, however, t...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c780 (Link to this contribution) I was simply making the point that I did not support the principle of third-party rights of appeal. ...
Tom Brake | 454 c778-80 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I think that she used the word ““gridlock”” in a number ...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c782 (Link to this contribution) I would hate to misrepresent my hon. Friend’s views—that is the last thing I come into the Chamber t...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c782 (Link to this contribution) There should be a check on the powers.
Andy Slaughter | 454 c782 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point well. He picks up the point I was making: clear guidance is needed, a...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c782 (Link to this contribution) In an earlier intervention, my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton and Wanstead (Harry Cohen) raised t...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c787 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that point. Does the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands) w...
Lord Horam | 454 c787-9 (Link to this contribution) Localism has been one of the themes of this debate. I think, and I am sure that many of my hon. Frie...
Greg Hands | 454 c787 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Slaughter | 454 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) If the statutory bodies such as the Housing Corporation, the Tory elected boroughs and, in some case...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c787 (Link to this contribution) To emphasise my hon. Friend’s point, I would add that it is essential that affordable rented accommo...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c787 (Link to this contribution) In a moment, but I warn the hon. Gentleman that he is only prolonging matters. That is a scandal, a...
Tom Brake | 454 c789 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned his unhappiness with what the Barker report had to say about housing, a...
Justine Greening | 454 c786 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that the Mayor should intervene in such decisions?
Andy Slaughter | 454 c786 (Link to this contribution) A long, but entertaining speech, nevertheless. If it makes Conservative Members feel more comfortabl...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c786 (Link to this contribution) I notice that there has been a hastily drafted new priority for the Conservative council in Hammersm...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c786 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great interest to my hon. Friend’s example. Does he think that the Conservative-...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c786 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates the point that I was coming on to—that it is not only Conservative and Li...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c785 (Link to this contribution) I hear another sedentary comment that it is not true, so I shall provide one or two examples. I was ...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c786 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for those remarks.
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c786 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend’s point about the Peabody Trust. It was set up as a charity to provide h...
Justine Greening | 454 c766 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that if the Mayor is so reluctant to listen to people in the Assembly he s...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c766-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point about the Assembly’s powers under the Greater London Authority Ac...
David Burrowes | 454 c769 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend for highlighting Transport for London’s lack of accountability. I want to d...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c769 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for backing me up with that specific information. We all have negati...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c769-71 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the hon. Gentleman twice already. His interventions were pointless then, and thi...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c771 (Link to this contribution) Almost 10 years ago, I was given the considerable honour and responsibility of developing detailed p...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c765 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to welcome the hon. Gentleman to the borough of Bromley, where I would show him our...
Angela Watkinson | 454 c765 (Link to this contribution) Like me, my hon. Friend knows that the needs of the outer-London boroughs are different from those o...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c765-6 (Link to this contribution) If any of us thought that the Mayor understood that, we would not oppose this Bill. We note that th...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c776-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is taking me into different territory, which is a matter of planning policy generally...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c775-6 (Link to this contribution) I support the hon. Gentleman’s concern about transparency—I was about to come to that—but I do not a...
Lord Stunell | 454 c776 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman recall my intervention on the Minister asking to whom the Mayor would ...
Harry Cohen | 454 c776 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my right hon. Friend is saying, but the truth of the matter is that if the Mayor calls i...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c774 (Link to this contribution) No, I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. He should think rather harder about logic before...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c774 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend not agree that there are too many reserve powers for the Secretary of Stat...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c774-5 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with that. I believe that there is a balance between the powers that should be ex...
Robert Neill | 454 c775 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being in the Chamber at the beginning of the debate. I was stuck in Committee. ...
David Burrowes | 454 c774 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is about to reveal his reservations about the Bill. May I help him on his w...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c774 (Link to this contribution) That rather farcical illustration was of about the same calibre as the hon. Gentleman’s earlier inte...
Richard Ottaway | 454 c773 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has just repeated the Minister’s allegation that the Conservatives voted ag...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c773 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is trying very hard, but he remembers the position. The incoherence of the Opposi...
Mark Field | 454 c772-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of the thrust of what the right hon. Gentleman has said. I certainly agree with th...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c773 (Link to this contribution) I do not entirely agree with that. When we set up the structure for London governance, I was very cl...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c772 (Link to this contribution) Is not my right hon. Friend’s point reinforced by the fact that the Tories still have not been able ...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c772 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, but I do not intend to intrude on the private grief of...
Greg Hands | 454 c771-2 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that although the new mayoral system has been in place for six y...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c772 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems incapable of understanding that in a democracy, the people decide who will ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, as I have accepted many interventions, and I know that many hon. Members wish t...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c763 (Link to this contribution) When I came to the Chamber, I was delighted to see so many London Members, and I thought that we wer...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady comment on the remarks of Steve Norris, the former Conservative mayoral candidate...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c764 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is too used to his Friday time-wasting to contribute sensibly to today’s debate. ...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c764-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise again only because Bromley is obviously the object of great pride. However, 124 per cent. of ...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c764 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may care to note that Bromley has produced 124 per cent. of its housing target, c...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c764 (Link to this contribution) If Conservative boroughs are so good at delivering affordable housing, will the hon. Lady condemn th...
Jacqui Lait | 454 c764 (Link to this contribution) First, I said that some London boroughs were the worst deliverers. Secondly, I applaud the right hon...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c764 (Link to this contribution) Having quoted the figure of 100 per cent. or so for Bromley’s target, which was a relatively low fig...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c756 (Link to this contribution) No, the hon. Gentleman is wrong. That is not the Government’s approach to these matters. First, we a...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c755 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We want the Housing Corporation to deliver its funding in accordance with t...
Karen Buck | 454 c755 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is regrettable that Westminster city council had to be forced to a...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c755 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. Boroughs have an important role in responding to housing n...
David Evennett | 454 c755-6 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the Minister is saying, but Opposition Members want more localism, with people participa...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c754 (Link to this contribution) Does that mean that he will take away children’s tickets? It sounded like it. The Conservatives opp...
David Curry | 454 c754 (Link to this contribution) If someone whose constituency is 250 miles from London is permitted to contribute to the debate, may...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c754-5 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman asks about the Mayor and candidates for that post. We are backing our Labou...
Sadiq Khan | 454 c755 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Minister will be aware from the debate last week of the problems with affordable ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c756 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that transparency is critically important, and that local community views ab...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c758 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be aware that some people have argued that the level of refusal of planning a...
Mark Field | 454 c758 (Link to this contribution) The Department’s consultation paper on the Mayor’s powers lists some 25 examples of what it regards ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c758 (Link to this contribution) The Mayor is elected every four years and so he is clearly directly accountable to the people of Lon...
Nick Hurd | 454 c758 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that such an emotive change to planning powers should be evidence-based? If ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c757-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point. We think that that needs to be set out in secondary l...
Lord Stunell | 454 c758 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister tell the House in what way, and to whom, the Mayor will be accountable for the dec...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c756-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall be happy to take further interventions, but first would like to set out the Government’s pro...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c757 (Link to this contribution) I have followed my hon. Friend’s presentation with considerable care and interest. I am very broadly...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) Heritage is clearly one of the things that the Mayor must take into account, just as any borough mus...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c759 (Link to this contribution) I assume that my hon. Friend is talking about section 106 arrangements. We have said that we need to...
Harry Cohen | 454 c759 (Link to this contribution) I, too, support the positive role for the Mayor. However, when he exercises that positive role, will...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c759 (Link to this contribution) I will take two more interventions and then, if I may, I will make some progress because I know that...
David Burrowes | 454 c759 (Link to this contribution) Is there not a concern that resources arising from section 106 agreements and the planning gain will...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c759 (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members will be aware that we introduced reforms to increase the involvement of local communiti...
Sadiq Khan | 454 c760 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the problems with the numerous interventions that we have had the fact that we assume ...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c760 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. If there is to be a London plan, with a process of democratic engagement ar...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c760 (Link to this contribution) Opposition Members do not seem too bothered about the fact that when a borough wants to accept a pla...
Justine Greening | 454 c760 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not agree that the extension of planning powers to the Mayor can only mean that th...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c760 (Link to this contribution) I shall take one more intervention on that point, and then I must move on.
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c761 (Link to this contribution) On waste disposal, is the Minister satisfied with current arrangements, under which London has a rat...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be aware that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food ...
Karen Buck | 454 c761 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware that Londoners have been asked their views on the subject and are strongly sup...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c761 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that the reality is that we need additional homes. We are currently not deli...
Greg Hands | 454 c762 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that the Mayor will pay due regard to consultation with the assembly, but what abo...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c762 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the Mayor makes decisions with which the hon. Gentleman disagrees. He must take th...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c803 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Evennett | 454 c802-3 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to be able to contribute to our debate on the Bill, and to raise the concerns of my consti...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c803 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Evennett | 454 c803 (Link to this contribution) No. We have heard more than enough from the hon. Gentleman this evening. He read out pages of a spee...
David Evennett | 454 c803 (Link to this contribution) No. Time is short and I must make progress. As I pointed out to the Minister in an intervention, we...
David Evennett | 454 c803 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. The turnout in local elections is not high. We want to get it higher. The turnout in the ma...
David Evennett | 454 c803-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. If we are to increase participation and interest in local government, particularly among the...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c804 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Justine Greening | 454 c790 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, my hon. Friend mentioned the economic impact of immigration. He might be interested in the ...
Lord Horam | 454 c789-90 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a non-point. That is characteristic of the Liberal party, which I am glad t...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this Bill, and the fact that it will extend the powers of the Mayor in important areas. I ...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c792 (Link to this contribution) In all honesty, I have to say that that scheme was opposed by the planning committee, including Labo...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c792-5 (Link to this contribution) The point that I make is made by my hon. Friend. The fact remains that the scheme was going to provi...
Speaker | 454 c796 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have approximately two hours for Back-Bench contributions and several Members wish to catc...
Speaker | 454 c790 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions must be brief when so many hon. Members are still waiting to catch my eye.
Lord Horam | 454 c790 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. However, I am grateful to my hon. Friend, as she is right that it i...
Andrew Love | 454 c790 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way before he moves on?
Lord Horam | 454 c790 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman does not mind, but I will not. We are rather short of time, as Madam ...
Richard Ottaway | 454 c798-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure what point the hon. Gentleman is making. The point is made that the ballot box provide...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c798 (Link to this contribution) Surely the people who should remove the Mayor, if they want to, are the people of London, through th...
Richard Ottaway | 454 c796-8 (Link to this contribution) I start with a plea. The Bill that became the Greater London Authority Act 1999 was the second longe...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c802 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely, because that happens in all our boroughs. It is important, too, that section 106...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c801-2 (Link to this contribution) That could happen, but it could be argued that by making an early intervention the Mayor could make ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c802 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that it is essential that section 106 money be spent in a reasonable p...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c801 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be right, or he may be wrong. The Minister nodded at him, but he did so, too,...
Justine Greening | 454 c801 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a compelling case, but does she agree that the increased uncertainty in the ...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c799-801 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. Reference has been made to the fact that we used to have great London debates on p...
Mark Field | 454 c801 (Link to this contribution) Without wishing to do the Minister’s work for him, I suspect that the provision refers to specific r...
Tom Brake | 454 c813 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the purpose of a Committee stage is to try to improve the Bill? T...
Harry Cohen | 454 c813-4 (Link to this contribution) That is an example of the Liberal Democrats having something in common with the Conservatives. The L...
Baroness Featherstone | 454 c812-3 (Link to this contribution) We are in favour of devolution, but I am arguing for better devolution. The breadth of the Bill, and...
Harry Cohen | 454 c813 (Link to this contribution) I have enjoyed the debate, and I do not want to denigrate earlier speakers, but as I listened I coul...
Justine Greening | 454 c812 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making an impassioned speech, but if she feels so strongly about such a huge issue,...
Baroness Featherstone | 454 c811-2 (Link to this contribution) Of course, my hon. Friend is right. I am trying to say that ordinary people suffer the consequences ...
Simon Hughes | 454 c811 (Link to this contribution) I am in the slightly strange position of having tried to be the Mayor but none the less representing...
Baroness Featherstone | 454 c811 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is wrong. I am trying to support the Bill, but, as my hon. Friend the Member for ...
Michael Gove | 454 c811 (Link to this contribution) Given the powerful indictment that the hon. Lady is making of the Bill, I presume that she will join...
Baroness Featherstone | 454 c809-11 (Link to this contribution) I was a London assembly member for five years, along with five other colleagues in the House who are...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c808-9 (Link to this contribution) The decision on the 700-odd one-bedroom flats in my constituency was made entirely locally by the Li...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c807 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He and I substantially agree on this issue. All pow...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c807 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of a right of appeal on planning issues, particular...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c808 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The preponderance of very small units is unfortunate. The former...
Andrew Pelling | 454 c808 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman concede that one of the problems with unnecessarily creating so many one-be...
Robert Neill | 454 c805 (Link to this contribution) In the interests of accuracy—perhaps the hon. Gentleman’s memory has failed him—may I remind him tha...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c805 (Link to this contribution) This is one of many debates that we have had over the years on London government. Since the 19th cen...
Simon Hughes | 454 c807 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I share a similar view on this issue, which we have discussed many times over...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c805-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right—but the Tories went on to abolish the GLC, because they did not like who...
David Evennett | 454 c804-5 (Link to this contribution) No. As I said to the hon. Gentleman before, he has made many interventions and others want to speak....
Harry Cohen | 454 c817 (Link to this contribution) I agree with that point, which dovetails with my own about early prior notification. I would not sa...
Lee Scott | 454 c817-8 (Link to this contribution) Many Members are still waiting to speak, so I shall be brief. I begin with housing. I know from my ...
Harry Cohen | 454 c816 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but in the few cases where the Government make it absolutely cl...
Andrew Dismore | 454 c816 (Link to this contribution) Is not the answer to the point made by the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hug...
Harry Cohen | 454 c814-6 (Link to this contribution) I am talking about the effect across London, not just in an individual borough. The point of the Bil...
Simon Hughes | 454 c816 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I am very sympathetic to many of the things that he is saying, but the...
Tom Brake | 454 c814 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. May I point out to him first that my local authorit...
Andrew Pelling | 454 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) First, I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests. I am a member...
Mark Field | 454 c820-2 (Link to this contribution) In the midst of considering an essentially parochial set of priorities for our capital, we should re...
Robert Neill | 454 c818-20 (Link to this contribution) I, too, shall endeavour to be brief. To my mind, the Bill is disappointing. I regret having to say t...
Michael Gove | 454 c826-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening) who, as ever, spo...
Tom Brake | 454 c827 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of flip-flops, will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Gove | 454 c827-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is an expert on flip-flops, but I think that we heard enough from him earlier. A...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c828 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a logical man. Will he please address this issue: if he believes the new power...
Tom Brake | 454 c823 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned that he is a member of the GLA. He will no doubt have received a copy o...
Andrew Pelling | 454 c823 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am, because I support the approach of the chair of the assembly, which is to be positive abou...
Greg Hands | 454 c824-5 (Link to this contribution) Various myths about the Bill have been put around by both the Government and the Mayor of London. In...
Justine Greening | 454 c825-6 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate, at long last. I have two regrets: ...
Tom Brake | 454 c829 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Gove | 454 c828-9 (Link to this contribution) As I was explaining, the Mayor’s powers to intervene will spin out the process to an interminable ex...
Michael Gove | 454 c829-30 (Link to this contribution) No, thank you. When I want clarity I will not go to the Liberal Democrats for it. I have been disapp...
Tom Brake | 454 c830 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Gove | 454 c830 (Link to this contribution) No, thank you. I realise that, as a Liberal Democrat, the hon. Gentleman is an expert in different l...
Yvette Cooper | 454 c830 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman put his hand on his heart and tell us that he agrees with the hon. Member fo...
Michael Gove | 454 c830 (Link to this contribution) I am as one with the leader of our Communities and Local Government team. On every aspect of housing...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 454 c833-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his advice. I did not realise that I had used the word as often as he imp...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 454 c830-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the chance to close this Second Reading debate. I begin by thanking all those h...
Jeremy Corbyn | 454 c833 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend be cautious and not keep using the word ““affordable”” about housing? People in ...
Andrew Pelling | 454 c754 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that it would be impossible to condemn myself, and I declare my interest as a GLA member. ...
Andy Slaughter | 454 c787 (Link to this contribution) The moment has obviously passed. In the current climate, the Bill is the right thing to do, althoug...
Nick Raynsford | 454 c776 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that that is absolutely implicit in the planning regime that appli...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c785 (Link to this contribution) When I hear the word Genesis, it immediately makes me want to jump up. Is my hon. Friend aware that ...
Baroness Hoey | 454 c756 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend say more about how decisions by the Mayor can be made more transparent, especial...
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Accountability
Housing
Environment
Greater London
Greater London Authority
Functions
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Pay
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Staff
Mayor of London
Local government executive
Museum of London
Transport
Reform
Waste disposal
London Assembly
Lead Development Association
Statutory instruments
Public health
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