Greater London Authority Bill. Report stage. New Clause 14, discussed with Government new Clause 15, debated and agreed to. New Clause 15 debated and agreed to. New Clause 1, discussed with New Clauses 2 to 7, New Schedules 1 to 3 negatived on division (196 votes to 286). New Clause 9, discussed with New Clauses 10 to 12, 16 negatived on division (186 votes to 289). Third reading debate agreed to on division (285 votes to 194). Bill passed.
Greater London Authority Bill
Debate on bills on Tuesday, 27 February 2007,
in the House of Commons,
led by Jim Fitzpatrick.
The answering
member was Jacqui Lait.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
457 c773-894 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Greater London Authority Bill . Explanatory Notes Bill 11-EN also published.
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Bills
House of Commons
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Robert Neill | 457 c775 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; I, too, am at fault for being slow in respect of the t...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c775 (Link to this contribution)
At least I believed they were.
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Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c776 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that the Mayor will have heard what the hon. Gentleman says about political balance. We co...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 457 c775 (Link to this contribution)
I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend who is rattling on at a good old rate, but I missed the ...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c773-5 (Link to this contribution)
These amendments and new clauses clarify several provisions in the Bill and are largely minor and co...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c775 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend asks whether the House will be consulted. The Department for Transport is about to is...
Greg Hands | 457 c776 (Link to this contribution)
May I repeat a question that I put in Committee about something that concerns many London residents?...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c776 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady’s point about TFL’s sensitivity to public representations was raised by a number of co...
Speaker | 457 c773 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Government new clause 15—Transitional pro...
Phyllis Starkey | 457 c806 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Evennett | 457 c806-7 (Link to this contribution)
No. I have only just started and I would like to make a few points first.
We have listened to the d...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c807 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned the incinerator. I suppose that I should come clean ...
David Evennett | 457 c807 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, on this issue we are. Bexley already has its own incinerator to deal with its own rubbish. We f...
Phyllis Starkey | 457 c807-9 (Link to this contribution)
Since I was not allowed to intervene on the hon. Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Mr. Evennett),...
Phyllis Starkey | 457 c809 (Link to this contribution)
I do not think that the hon. Gentleman was in his place at the beginning of the debate, when the exc...
Robert Neill | 457 c809 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady talks about the failure of most London boroughs. If she looks at the figures for Londo...
Phyllis Starkey | 457 c809 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to do so, although I had actually finished my remarks when the hon. Gentleman intervened ...
Robert Neill | 457 c809 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Lady give way again?
Robert Neill | 457 c809-10 (Link to this contribution)
I do not want to encourage the hon. Lady unduly, but I was trying to make sure that she did not make...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c804 (Link to this contribution)
I can tell the House a little about the Western Riverside waste authority—it is a bit of a joke. Whe...
Mark Field | 457 c803 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Lady for her relatively supportive comments, at least on this occasion, about City ...
Karen Buck | 457 c803 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right, although Westminster meets its targets. To be absolutely fair to...
Karen Buck | 457 c805-6 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Lady will forgive me, I shall not. I have taken a lot of interventions and I am coming c...
David Evennett | 457 c806 (Link to this contribution)
I shall make just a few comments against the hon. Lady’s new clause, which would not be in the best ...
Karen Buck | 457 c805 (Link to this contribution)
I say good. Well-performing authorities have nothing to fear and everything to gain from being locat...
Baroness Featherstone | 457 c805 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Lady give way?
Karen Buck | 457 c804-5 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with my hon. Friend.
The argument is fundamentally not about bureaucratic neatness, but abo...
Simon Hughes | 457 c805 (Link to this contribution)
I hope that I may be allowed to make some comments later about the strategic point, but what would t...
Karen Buck | 457 c799-800 (Link to this contribution)
Part of the answer to that is that I am not sure that that necessarily matters that much. The single...
Karen Buck | 457 c800 (Link to this contribution)
I am at a complete loss to understand why that might be so, unless the hon. Gentleman is making the ...
David Evennett | 457 c800 (Link to this contribution)
I am listening with great interest to the points that the hon. Lady is making. She mentioned the bor...
Mark Field | 457 c802 (Link to this contribution)
As the hon. Lady seems to think that there is an unimpeachable argument in favour of a single waste ...
Karen Buck | 457 c802-3 (Link to this contribution)
Among other factors, the central argument is probably the fact that street cleaning and rubbish coll...
Phyllis Starkey | 457 c803 (Link to this contribution)
City of Westminster has a recycling rate of only 18 per cent. Clearly recycling is not working well ...
Karen Buck | 457 c800 (Link to this contribution)
There have been disagreements between some boroughs and the Mayor on aspects of waste disposal, incl...
Justine Greening | 457 c800-1 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way, because I know that she has taken many interventions....
Karen Buck | 457 c801-2 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Lady will forgive me, I should point out that that goes to the heart of the comments tha...
David Burrowes | 457 c783 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome my hon. Friend’s characterisation of Transport for London as unaccountable and out of touc...
Karen Buck | 457 c787 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 457 c787-98 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
New clause 2— Powers and duties of the Lo...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c784-5 (Link to this contribution)
It was remiss of me not to make reference to the absence of the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michae...
Karen Buck | 457 c799 (Link to this contribution)
I will give a straight answer to a straight question: no. Clearly, compared with chaos, evidence tha...
Tom Brake | 457 c799 (Link to this contribution)
Perhaps the hon. Lady did not do the question asked by the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pel...
Karen Buck | 457 c798-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to have this opportunity to revisit the arguments that we had in Committee over the pr...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c799 (Link to this contribution)
Although I recognise that potent arguments are being made for one waste authority, does the hon. Lad...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c776-7 (Link to this contribution)
In Committee, we had extensive discussion of the relative merits of the various consultations that t...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c777-8 (Link to this contribution)
I begin by sending my good wishes and, I am sure, those of everyone in the Chamber to my hon. Friend...
Tom Brake | 457 c779-80 (Link to this contribution)
May I start my brief contribution by saying that I, too, miss the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mich...
Justine Greening | 457 c780 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman accept that users of underground lines, such as the District line in my area...
Tom Brake | 457 c780 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. Yes, clearly the Mayor has many issues to address, wheth...
Mark Field | 457 c780-1 (Link to this contribution)
Like other Members, I shall speak briefly. I accept that most of the amendments in the group are unc...
Robert Neill | 457 c781-2 (Link to this contribution)
I want to return briefly to transport issues and the TFL board. Before I do so, let me say that I ag...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c782 (Link to this contribution)
There are some good, professional officers at TFL. However, is it not interesting that other Members...
Robert Neill | 457 c869 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a fair and valid point. A lot of us have seen the Mayor’s behaviour in areas ot...
Mark Field | 457 c868-9 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend accept that there is already a precedent for that very problem in relation to th...
Robert Neill | 457 c867-8 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed. The fact is that these arrangements have been around for a long time, as have the discussion...
Robert Neill | 457 c865-7 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely endorse the observations of my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminste...
Mark Field | 457 c864-5 (Link to this contribution)
I will concentrate my remarks on the two amendments in my name—amendments Nos. 28 and 29—which would...
Justine Greening | 457 c863 (Link to this contribution)
We have already started a consultation on the regeneration of the Alton estate. Is the hon. Gentlema...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c863 (Link to this contribution)
With respect to the hon. Lady, I was talking about the London borough of Wandsworth, not about peopl...
Justine Greening | 457 c862-3 (Link to this contribution)
With the greatest respect, the hon. Gentleman did not deal with the previous point that was made. I ...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c863 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady represents a constituency in the borough of Wandsworth, which possibly has the worst h...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c857 (Link to this contribution)
I shall not look at hypothetical examples or areas with which I am not familiar. I know the Thames r...
Baroness Kramer | 457 c857 (Link to this contribution)
I have not seen the details of the order, but in the borough of Richmond upon Thames developments by...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c856-7 (Link to this contribution)
I agree that local authorities should be in the driving seat when it comes to local regeneration sch...
Justine Greening | 457 c856 (Link to this contribution)
Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that an overlying problem is that boroughs often want to underta...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c858-9 (Link to this contribution)
There is absolutely no reason why that should apply, because the question of the tenure mix has been...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c858 (Link to this contribution)
In making that point, my right hon. Friend has partly demolished his argument. There is a similar si...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c857-8 (Link to this contribution)
I shall come on to ways of addressing the problem, but the hon. Gentleman has suggested part of the ...
Tom Brake | 457 c857 (Link to this contribution)
Does the right hon. Gentleman think that his concerns about the order are addressed by the amendment...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c854-5 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, as long as my hon. Friend does not charge me the usual legal fees.
Amendment No. 5 does indeed...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c855-6 (Link to this contribution)
I intend to address the topic of the specific threshold for mayoral intervention in planning powers....
Tom Brake | 457 c860-1 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his helpful intervention underlining the fact that whatever commitmen...
Robert Neill | 457 c860 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is right. He will know that the London Assembly’s planning scrutiny committee, of...
Simon Hughes | 457 c862 (Link to this contribution)
Things are not quite as simple as that, as the hon. Gentleman will realise if he reflects carefully....
Andy Slaughter | 457 c861 (Link to this contribution)
I fear that those in the Chamber have become the victims of group hypnosis, which has led them to be...
Simon Hughes | 457 c862 (Link to this contribution)
In my borough, two big housing redevelopments are on the drawing board—one at Elephant and Castle, o...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c862 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman—but my advice to him would be not to worry. Obviously I am not a...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c862 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman may be falling into the same error that he accused me of a few moments ago. Often...
Tom Brake | 457 c859-60 (Link to this contribution)
I do not know whether it is possible to have two cruxes of the matter but, if so, we have come to th...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c860 (Link to this contribution)
Although I recognise that the current Mayor is not the fount of all sagacity, is it not important to...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c820 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend tell the House why we should believe that if the proposal that he supports is pu...
Andrew Dismore | 457 c819-20 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. The West London waste authority is 217th out of all 39...
Karen Buck | 457 c828-30 (Link to this contribution)
I like a challenge, and I have listened carefully to the arguments. I shall not be pressing new clau...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c825-8 (Link to this contribution)
Given the thorough examination of the proposal in Committee, I can only salute the optimism of my ho...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c823-4 (Link to this contribution)
It has been a fascinating debate for those of us—the great majority—who were not in Committee on 16 ...
Tom Brake | 457 c822-3 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to start by saying, ““Credit where credit is due.”” The hon. Member for Regent’s Park ...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c824-5 (Link to this contribution)
Well, some of us thought that at the time, but, unfortunately, if the liqueurs had been resold, the ...
Tom Brake | 457 c824 (Link to this contribution)
What a waste.
Tom Brake | 457 c832 (Link to this contribution)
The most straightforward way might be for the local authority—which is responsible for producing the...
Charles Walker | 457 c832 (Link to this contribution)
I speak as a former Wandsworth councillor. How does the hon. Gentleman propose to make the Mayor’s p...
Tom Brake | 457 c831-2 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for highlighting the fact that the Mayor’s precept makes up a significant...
Mark Field | 457 c831 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point, with which I entirely agree. However, he should not base his...
Tom Brake | 457 c830-1 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
We return to what the Liberal Democrats and t...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c833 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that it was. I am surprised to hear that any part was less good than any other. I always e...
Tom Brake | 457 c833 (Link to this contribution)
It was the best part.
Andrew Pelling | 457 c833 (Link to this contribution)
I apologise both to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ...
Mark Field | 457 c832 (Link to this contribution)
I am only sorry that the hon. Member for Regent's Park and Kensington, North (Ms Buck) is not here. ...
Karen Buck | 457 c811 (Link to this contribution)
Is not it the case that the proportion of residents of many European and American cities living in f...
Mark Field | 457 c810-1 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey) made some extremely heartfelt comments, ...
Phyllis Starkey | 457 c810 (Link to this contribution)
I repeat that if the hon. Gentleman had had the courtesy to be here for the start of the debate, he ...
Karen Buck | 457 c816 (Link to this contribution)
I am worried by the romantic picture that the hon. Gentleman has painted of localism, because it has...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c813-4 (Link to this contribution)
I do not support the new clause, although I fully understand the concerns that led my hon. Friend th...
Mark Field | 457 c811-2 (Link to this contribution)
I am not aware of all the overseas comparators, although I confess that I asked my hon. Friend the M...
John Austin | 457 c819 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry to disagree with my neighbour and right hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich and Woolwich...
Andrew Dismore | 457 c817-9 (Link to this contribution)
I shall speak to the new clauses, new schedules and amendments in the name of my hon. Friend the Mem...
Simon Hughes | 457 c816-7 (Link to this contribution)
I will try and give a short answer. I do not think that until relatively recently, many boroughs wer...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c850-1 (Link to this contribution)
For the official Opposition, this is one of the most important parts of the Bill, as it is the key p...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c851 (Link to this contribution)
Very helpful.
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c840-1 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman repeats the points that he made in debate today and in Committee. We obviously di...
Tom Brake | 457 c841 (Link to this contribution)
I have listened carefully to the Minister. I suspect that he and I both have a sense of déjà vu abou...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c846 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 457 c846-50 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
New clause 10— Planning: access to agenda...
Speaker | 457 c838 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I am afraid that that is not relevant to the new clause under discussion.
Jacqui Lait | 457 c838-9 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving exactly the same answer that I would have give...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c839-40 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait), like me, is a Londoner, although we do not speak with the...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c840 (Link to this contribution)
Under a PR system, real influence could be given to very small groups that are in a minority in the ...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c851-2 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed.
At least, we made the position clear, but our constituents in the borough of Bromley, espec...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c854 (Link to this contribution)
It is always useful to have a good brief around.
Robert Neill | 457 c854 (Link to this contribution)
It is about enforcement.
Baroness Kramer | 457 c854 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Lady agree that if a council that is meeting its affordable housing targets has to mee...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c854 (Link to this contribution)
I could not agree more. That is a concern expressed to us by many London councils. I am sure that an...
Mark Field | 457 c852 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely endorse what my hon. Friend says. Does she not think that one of the more insidious aspec...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c852-4 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that point because I will be coming on to amendments that we hav...
Simon Hughes | 457 c852 (Link to this contribution)
As the hon. Lady knows, the Liberal Democrats very much support not only that amendment but the othe...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c852 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not only for his promise of support, but for making that point, ...
Robert Neill | 457 c835-6 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right—I, too, am in danger of agreeing with the Liberal Democrats t...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c836 (Link to this contribution)
To return to the Mayor’s remarks last time the vote took place, did not his mocking tone towards the...
Robert Neill | 457 c836 (Link to this contribution)
That is absolutely right. It is indicative that the Mayor should be sitting in the public gallery du...
Justine Greening | 457 c836 (Link to this contribution)
I am listening with interest to my hon. Friend, but does he agree that that is not the only democrat...
Tom Brake | 457 c833 (Link to this contribution)
In fact, the Mayor was shouting that it had been carried by an underwhelming minority.
Andrew Pelling | 457 c833 (Link to this contribution)
But it was sufficiently whelming under the current Act and the Government’s new GLA Bill to allow th...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c834 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the Minister for his kind comments from a sedentary position. As he implies, it is ...
Robert Neill | 457 c834 (Link to this contribution)
I endorse everything that my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling) has said. I s...
Tom Brake | 457 c835 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the sense of partnership should be enhanced as the Mayor takes on...
Jeremy Browne | 457 c838 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. I am not seeking to cause an argument; I am simply wo...
Jeremy Browne | 457 c838 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Lady give way?
Jacqui Lait | 457 c838 (Link to this contribution)
I do not want to spoil the alliance between the Liberal Democrats and ourselves on this issue by get...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c837 (Link to this contribution)
Much as I love my neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill), I...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c837 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend give way?
Robert Neill | 457 c836-7 (Link to this contribution)
I have sympathy with my hon. Friend’s point, which was also made earlier in relation to the behaviou...
Speaker | 457 c837 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I think that I will join the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) in saying that the footbal...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c837-8 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend’s intervention went straight over my head. My only t...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c837 (Link to this contribution)
I was about to thank my hon. Friend for his contribution to the Committee, but if we are going to ta...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c837 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend not agree that the two-thirds majority idea is a bit like Arsenal losing 2-1—
Jacqui Lait | 457 c883 (Link to this contribution)
Oh dear—the Minister for Housing and Planning was being so nice up until that last bit. I commend he...
Yvette Cooper | 457 c882-3 (Link to this contribution)
As the hon. Gentleman will know, many matters are being passed from the Government office for London...
Jacqui Lait | 457 c883-4 (Link to this contribution)
I thought for one moment, when the Under-Secretary pointed skywards, that he had heard news that I h...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c883 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman may be watching on TV.
Theresa Villiers | 457 c885 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman seeks to minimise the changes that the Bill would introduce by shifting planning ...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c884-5 (Link to this contribution)
Like my hon. Friend the Minister, I am sorry that the Conservatives do not support the Bill. Having ...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c885 (Link to this contribution)
No, I do not accept that that is the net effect. Indeed, that effect has been hugely exaggerated. Th...
John Redwood | 457 c881 (Link to this contribution)
Is the Minister saying that after 10 years of Labour Government, the health inequalities in London a...
Robert Neill | 457 c882 (Link to this contribution)
Given that commitment to decisions being taken at a local level and the Minister’s expressed desire ...
Yvette Cooper | 457 c881-2 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that we have already taken a series of actions to improve pub...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c888 (Link to this contribution)
We have seen very little in the way of change during the process that has got the Bill to this stage...
Robert Neill | 457 c887 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the fundamental flaw in the Bill, and the reason why both our par...
Tom Brake | 457 c887 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, start by thanking Ministers and the Labour Whip for the efficient manner in which matters ha...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c888-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for that intervention. The Minister has probably secured the best compromise possible ...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c888 (Link to this contribution)
Does not the hon. Gentleman accept that, under the chairmanship of the Mayor and the vice-chairmansh...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c886 (Link to this contribution)
I had thought of that perplexing problem. Were, God forbid, the hon. Member for North Southwark and ...
Lord Stunell | 457 c886 (Link to this contribution)
Would the hon. Gentleman take exactly the same view, were there to be a Mayor of London of a differe...
Andy Slaughter | 457 c885-6 (Link to this contribution)
I did not say always, but I do say likely. Given the housing pressures in London, which the hon. Gen...
Simon Hughes | 457 c885 (Link to this contribution)
I deduce that the hon. Gentleman continues to believe that any development or redevelopment of more ...
John Redwood | 457 c889-91 (Link to this contribution)
It is time that someone said a few words on behalf of long-suffering London taxpayers. Since the May...
Andrew Pelling | 457 c889 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that remotely set national and regional targets have led to Lon...
Speaker | 457 c891 (Link to this contribution)
I instruct the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.
The House having divided...
Robert Neill | 457 c889 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend agree that a good example of current mayoral policies producing a perverse resul...
Theresa Villiers | 457 c869 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend agree with my constituents, who are concerned because there is already pressure ...
Robert Neill | 457 c869 (Link to this contribution)
That is absolutely right; that is why I am concerned. It is regrettable that the discussion about se...
Justine Greening | 457 c869-70 (Link to this contribution)
I have a real sense of déjà vu, having been present at the Second Reading debate, when many of the s...
Simon Hughes | 457 c870-2 (Link to this contribution)
I shall be brief, but I have exactly the same strength of view as has been expressed by many on the ...
Theresa Villiers | 457 c872-3 (Link to this contribution)
The amendments have been tabled to address the fundamental flaw in the Bill: it takes powers away fr...
Yvette Cooper | 457 c873-5 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) on getting her head around the order extrem...
Speaker | 457 c875 (Link to this contribution)
I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
The House having divided: Ayes...
Yvette Cooper | 457 c880 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.
We have had extensive debate today and in ...
Yvette Cooper | 457 c880-1 (Link to this contribution)
Our debates on the Bill have been extensive. I particularly thank the Under-Secretary of State for T...
Theresa Villiers | 457 c776 (Link to this contribution)
Is the Minister really confident that the changes in the Bill will make TFL more responsive? My cons...
Derek Conway | 457 c800 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is being patient with the House and giving way a lot. She mentioned Bexley, in which m...
Robert Neill | 457 c783-4 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a very important point, which demonstrates how our concern on this topic is not...
Nick Raynsford | 457 c867 (Link to this contribution)
A bygone era.
Tom Brake | 457 c860 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed. The Mayor will no doubt be grateful for the amendment tabled by the Conservatives, which we ...
Robert Neill | 457 c782-3 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He and I know that the only way that we were able as constituenc...
James Brokenshire | 457 c820-2 (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to participate in the debate, focusing on waste-related issues in London. It is cer...
Andrew Dismore | 457 c820 (Link to this contribution)
I think that the lines of authority and responsibility would be that much clearer, so it would make ...
Simon Hughes | 457 c814-6 (Link to this contribution)
A few months ago, I had an exchange with the Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfa...
Tom Brake | 457 c887-8 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. He has referred to the Government office for London, which...
Speaker | 457 c880 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Please will Members who are leaving the Chamber do so quickly and quietly.
Tom Brake | 457 c832-3 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I do not think that it requires a response.
In...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c773 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Karen Buck | 457 c803-4 (Link to this contribution)
I accept much of what the hon. Gentleman says. However, this is not about playing party political ga...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 457 c778-9 (Link to this contribution)
I had no intention of taking part in the debate, but I have considerable reservations. There has bee...
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