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Greater London Authority Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 46-EN also published.
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
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Deposited Paper HDEP 2007/434
Monday, 21 May 2007
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Proceeding contributions

Baroness Andrews | 691 c156-8GC (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate, veering wildly from the general to the very specific. Clause 30...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c159GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 91: 91: Before Clause 31, insert the following new Clause— ““Determination of ...

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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 691 c168-9GC (Link to this contribution) I declare a hereditary interest in relation to what my noble friend Lord Jenkin said about the sight...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c150GC (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on individual cases. We are talking about planning rather than housing. We can have...

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c124GC (Link to this contribution) In the light of our discussion, what worries me most—and it worries the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee—...

Lord Tope | 691 c124-5GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for her reassurance on Clause 26, which I support—it is absolutely rig...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c158GC (Link to this contribution) I inform my noble friend that Westminster City Council is about to deal with a very controversial ap...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c175-6GC (Link to this contribution) Given the rate at which the Minister has spoken, it has been very difficult to gather all that has b...

Baroness Valentine | 691 c166-7GC (Link to this contribution) I shall give a tiny bit of context, which we already know. London needs to respond to huge populatio...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c176GC (Link to this contribution) Will it be before Report?

Baroness Andrews | 691 c176GC (Link to this contribution) It is very unlikely. We do not have a date for Report. I shall write to the noble Baroness.

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c141GC (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord aware that Westminster City Council has asked the noble Lord, Lord Best, from the ...

Lord Harris of Haringey | 691 c140GC (Link to this contribution) I should like to speak to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin of Roding, partly...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c149-50GC (Link to this contribution) I shall quote from a letter from the Mayor’s office to Westminster City Council. Forget that it is W...

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c150-2GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that answer because it contained a lot of valuable stuff that we will have ...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c152-3GC (Link to this contribution) The powers granted to the Mayor by Clause 30 would allow him to direct changes to local development ...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 691 c176GC (Link to this contribution) This may be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn until tomorrow.

Baroness Valentine | 691 c139GC (Link to this contribution) I shall start by mentioning that I am chief executive of London First, which has house builders and ...

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c134GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that answer, particularly for the last part, because it goes some way towar...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 691 c122-4GC (Link to this contribution) I hope that I can reassure the Committee on the important points raised. I shall speak in support of...

Lord Tope | 691 c121GC (Link to this contribution) I have great sympathy with what has been said about Clause 25. I could sum it up by asking the Minis...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c116GC (Link to this contribution) My impression is that the present administration in the City and successive Lord Mayors have had lit...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c116GC (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord explain the difference between the two mayors? In what way is the GLA Mayor diff...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c118-9GC (Link to this contribution) I can reassure my noble friend that I am not disposed to accept the amendment. Perhaps I can add a f...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c155GC (Link to this contribution) Oh, I am so sorry. I beg your pardon. Forgive me.

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c165GC (Link to this contribution) If you’re lucky, it will be the other way round.

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c160-4GC (Link to this contribution) I begin with an apology for jumping ahead of the game a few moments ago. As I explained earlier, it ...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c164-5GC (Link to this contribution) My name is down to oppose the question that Clause 31 stand part. It may be convenient to speak fair...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c158-9GC (Link to this contribution) I am sure the Minister will say that it is extremely difficult to discuss one particular case and on...

Lord Harris of Haringey | 691 c167-8GC (Link to this contribution) I had been planning to make my remarks on the planning provisions in the Bill on the next group of a...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c176GC (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Baroness sits down, perhaps I may ask the Minister to clarify what will happen to w...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c176GC (Link to this contribution) I cannot at the moment.

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c140-1GC (Link to this contribution) I want to speak to the generality of the amendments where they refer specifically to the need to tak...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c148GC (Link to this contribution) I shall wish to study what the noble Baroness said on my two amendments. I should add an extenuating...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 691 c148GC (Link to this contribution) I rise in the hope of strengthening the Minister’s determination to tackle the scandal of the housin...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c141-2GC (Link to this contribution) No, I was not aware of that. However, I am aware that Westminster City Council is very good at prese...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c142-8GC (Link to this contribution) This good debate suddenly came to a stirring end with the call from my noble friend. The noble Baron...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c148-9GC (Link to this contribution) I know that my noble friend’s track record in pursuing housing provision as a social good is second ...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c149GC (Link to this contribution) If a borough becomes awkward and decides that it wants to block affordable housing that the Mayor wa...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c149GC (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours—who obviously has an axe to grind at the moment...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c150GC (Link to this contribution) On that note, we come back from the sublime to the gorblimey. When we were discussing Amendment No. ...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c153-5GC (Link to this contribution) The position of the noble Baroness undermines what I regard as a critical part of the Bill. I want t...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c155GC (Link to this contribution) I hope that noble Lords will forgive me if I do not follow the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours. I ...

Lord Tope | 691 c130-1GC (Link to this contribution) Fine. The role of the Assembly, as intended, is carried out through its membership of the Metropolit...

Baroness Ford | 691 c137GC (Link to this contribution) I resist Amendment No. 76 and I encourage the Minister to resist Amendment No. 89. The noble Lord, L...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c136-7GC (Link to this contribution) My amendments in this group are Amendments Nos. 87ZA, 86B and 89A—that is the order in which they ap...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c139-40GC (Link to this contribution) We have not objected much to the housing strategy much. These amendments would apply to the strategy...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c124GC (Link to this contribution) That point concerns me greatly as well. As I understood it, we were being told that they would or co...

Lord Tope | 691 c125GC (Link to this contribution) For each of the seven years of LFEPA’s existence the Mayor has had the power, which he has exercised...

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c126GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 72: 72: After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause— ““Greater London Aut...

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c125-6GC (Link to this contribution) Perhaps we made a mistake in including in this group the Question whether Clause 26 shall stand part...

Baroness Valentine | 691 c127GC (Link to this contribution) I have every sympathy with wanting to amend the current governance arrangements for the Metropolitan...

Lord Tope | 691 c130GC (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I too am a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority. I should also declare—or,...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c122GC (Link to this contribution) The Bill allows the Mayor to promote two members, taking away from the borough representation. Who i...

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c120-1GC (Link to this contribution) We oppose the Questions whether Clauses 25, 26 and 27 shall stand part of the Bill. We oppose the c...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c120GC (Link to this contribution) It is anticipatory and attempts to sort out where the Mayor’s responsibilities, the Foreign and Comm...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 691 c118GC (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Government will not be disposed to accept the amendment. I believe it is very restri...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 691 c119GC (Link to this contribution) GLA Members can travel as part of delegations, can they not? If they can travel at taxpayers’ expens...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c119GC (Link to this contribution) I thank noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate. This was a probing amendment to query...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 691 c155-6GC (Link to this contribution) I was waiting for my noble friend Lord Jenkin. If the Minister will allow me to make a brief interve...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c169-75GC (Link to this contribution) I think that I have enough time to answer most of the points that have been raised. I will proceed f...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c165-6GC (Link to this contribution) Noises from the wings. I wonder whether, in bringing forward this order and these clauses, the Gove...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c149GC (Link to this contribution) As I have said, the general conformity powers would initially come into play. If a borough is omitti...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c150GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to comment later on that. I shall have to check the relationship b...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c155GC (Link to this contribution) I shall address the clause in a more generalised fashion and shall resist the temptation to respond ...

Lord Elton | 691 c176GC (Link to this contribution) The Committee stands adjourned until tomorrow at 3.45 pm. The Committee adjourned at 7.44 pm.

Baroness Hanham | 691 c176GC (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Lord Hanningfield | 691 c135GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 76: 76: Clause 28, page 29, line 24, leave out from beginning to end of line 6...

Lord Haskel | 691 c135GC (Link to this contribution) A Division has been called in the House and the Committee stands adjourned for 10 minutes. [The Sit...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c138-9GC (Link to this contribution) On the whole, I support the line taken by London Councils. I have previously declared an interest as...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 691 c137-8GC (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill rather than the amendments. As everyone now knows, there is a housing crisis in L...

Baroness Andrews | 691 c131-4GC (Link to this contribution) It is a disarming amendment, but it has been extremely well dealt with by my noble friend Lord Harri...

Lord Harris of Haringey | 691 c127-30GC (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority. I congratulate the noble Lor...

Lord Young of Norwood Green | 691 c130GC (Link to this contribution) It is in the existing statute.

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 691 c124GC (Link to this contribution) I reiterate the tribute I paid to the work of LFEPA. We need to be clear that the Mayor can make ope...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 691 c122GC (Link to this contribution) These amendments would wipe out the whole of Part 5. I am not at all certain that that is a very goo...

Baroness Hamwee | 691 c121-2GC (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may ask a question supplementary to that. I recognise that I cannot be given an answer tod...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 691 c119GC (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Baroness provide examples of where there has been conflict or aggravation with the For...

Lord Tope | 691 c116-8GC (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure whether the speech that we have just heard was in support of the amendment. One ...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c119GC (Link to this contribution) We are not saying that the Mayor should not travel. The last part of the amendment does not suggest ...

Baroness Hanham | 691 c115GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 68: 68: Clause 23, page 25, line 43, at end insert— ““(5) After section 31(3) ...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 691 c116GC (Link to this contribution) This amendment has nothing to do with the extensive overseas work performed every year by successive...

Lord Haskel | 691 c115GC (Link to this contribution) If there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as th...

Subjects

Construction

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City of London

Departmental responsibilities

City of Westminster

Housing

Expenditure

Greater London

Greater London Authority

Fire and rescue services

Homelessness