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2006-07

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Home Information Pack Regulations 2007
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Home Information Packs
Monday, 29 October 2007
Written questions
House of Commons

BUILDING AND BUILDINGS (S.I., 2007, No. 991)
Monday, 16 April 2007
Early day motions
House of Commons

HOUSING (S.I., 2007, No. 992)
Monday, 16 April 2007
Early day motions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Nick Raynsford | 460 c654 (Link to this contribution) If I am to make progress as Mr. Deputy Speaker has asked, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept...

Nick Raynsford | 460 c655 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks back over time, he will find that the rate of addition to the housing st...

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Michael Gove | 460 c655 (Link to this contribution) That is not correct.

Tony Baldry | 460 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) On occasions, this debate has been fairly rumbustious, largely due to the excellence of the opening ...

Nia Griffith | 460 c656-7 (Link to this contribution) It makes tremendous sense for the provision of information to be the responsibility of the seller. W...

Andrew Miller | 460 c652 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a very good point. Does he agree with me that the fear of losing money in...

Nick Raynsford | 460 c652 (Link to this contribution) At the outset, I wish to draw attention to my declared interests, specifically as chairman of the Co...

Nick Raynsford | 460 c653 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is wrong. The seller puts the property on the market and commissions the EPC. If ...

Adrian Bailey | 460 c653 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) said that the bureaucratic burden on local authoriti...

Robert Neill | 460 c653 (Link to this contribution) Is not the downside of that the real risk that requiring an EPC—which is a good idea, and that has a...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 460 c654 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Nick Raynsford | 460 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point well. I notice that the hon. Member for Surrey Heath did not seem to ...

Claire Curtis-Thomas | 460 c654 (Link to this contribution) Like me, my right hon. Friend is concerned about the quality of homes and the safety of individuals....

Michael Gove | 460 c650 (Link to this contribution) Wrong debate and wrong motion.

Claire Curtis-Thomas | 460 c650 (Link to this contribution) I am a little confused by some of the hon. Gentleman’s comments. He is talking about the introductio...

Lord Stunell | 460 c649-50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very strong point. Back in July of last year, the Government’s whole argu...

Speaker | 460 c652 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that the prayer is limited to one and a half hours. We must complete consi...

Lord Stunell | 460 c651-2 (Link to this contribution) One has to be careful what one says, even in the House, but one will probably get the former for a t...

Angela Watkinson | 460 c651 (Link to this contribution) How much confidence does the hon. Gentleman think that consumers can have in the findings of a home ...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 460 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I was late for this debate because I was address...

Lord Stunell | 460 c650 (Link to this contribution) Had I not taken the hon. Lady’s intervention, I would in any case probably have got to the part of m...

David Drew | 460 c648 (Link to this contribution) Does not that bear out the fact that there is a problem in that we can have pilots—it will be good t...

John Hayes | 460 c648 (Link to this contribution) It is most useful that the hon. Gentleman has drawn attention to events in the other place, particul...

Lord Stunell | 460 c648 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, which brings me on to another part of the evidence given by M...

Adam Afriyie | 460 c649 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I certainly welcome his moderate and emollient tones....

Robert Neill | 460 c649 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a valid point. Is it not reinforced by the contrast between the extreme...

Lord Stunell | 460 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that a backhanded compliment is better than no compliment at all. I will move on, if I may...

Lord Stunell | 460 c649 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point; that certainly is the evidence given by CML. We have...

Angela Watkinson | 460 c644 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister may know, the Daily Mail website claims today that the only reason we have been gran...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c643-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Advocates of the home information packs that are currently in the market ha...

Paul Farrelly | 460 c645 (Link to this contribution) We have not only seen such misinformation in the press—as my hon. Friend says, it has been used as a...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c644 (Link to this contribution) We think that competition is very important. Part of the intention behind the reforms is to improve ...

Jessica Morden | 460 c644 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister’s comments. Will she ensure that the many people, including constituents of m...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c644 (Link to this contribution) I would caution the hon. Lady over what she should believe in the Daily Mail. I did not read the Dai...

Lord Stunell | 460 c647-8 (Link to this contribution) I was going to start by congratulating the Minister on her measured and emollient response to the de...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c645-7 (Link to this contribution) What utter nonsense. The hon. Gentleman asks for evidence of his opposition to energy performance ce...

Michael Gove | 460 c645 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has been in the House for 10 years. She will be familiar with the workings of the Tabl...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c645 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. We must look for the real dividing lines in the argument. T...

David Drew | 460 c643 (Link to this contribution) I must declare an interest. I have just sold my father’s house, because he has gone into care. He ha...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c642 (Link to this contribution) I am inundated with requests for interventions. I will give way first to the hon. Member for St. Alb...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c642 (Link to this contribution) People buying or selling shared equity properties already have to pay transaction costs, estate agen...

Anne Main | 460 c642 (Link to this contribution) On costs and savings for sellers and buyers, does the Minister agree that the cost for sellers of pa...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c642 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman must recognise that the home buying and selling process has not changed pro...

John Redwood | 460 c642 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not see that if HIPs are so wonderful—if they lead to people making savings on the...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c643 (Link to this contribution) Opposition Members keep contradicting themselves. One minute they want bigger HIPs; the next minute ...

John Hayes | 460 c643 (Link to this contribution) When the hon. Lady debated these matters with us alongside the then Minister for Housing and Plannin...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to say that there will be savings throughout the process. He also refers to ...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: there is a big difference between a fridge and a house. Homes are respo...

Paul Farrelly | 460 c641 (Link to this contribution) I accept that HIPs might bring some extra upfront costs, particularly with regard to producing the e...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c640 (Link to this contribution) The Better Regulation Commission wants to water down energy performance certificates. It takes the v...

Andrew Murrison | 460 c640 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister not understand the big difference between a fridge and some of the ancient housing ...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c640 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, Which? wanted us to go further and to introduce a home condition report. We agree with Wh...

Yvette Cooper | 460 c639-40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) has entertained us—and, of course, himself—in his us...

Mark Prisk | 460 c640 (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes an analogy with the consumer. On that basis, why has the Consumers Association de...

Lord Pickles | 460 c639 (Link to this contribution) That’s not very good.

Michael Gove | 460 c638 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman insists on giving us a history lesson. Let me remind him that the first significa...

Michael Gove | 460 c639 (Link to this contribution) It certainly is not. The way in which the Government are trying to use HIPs to prop up their faulty...

Michael Gove | 460 c636 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, because it shows that he completely misun...

Adrian Bailey | 460 c636 (Link to this contribution) I have been following the hon. Gentleman’s arguments, and I am finding them rather contradictory. On...

Michael Gove | 460 c636-8 (Link to this contribution) I reconcile them using a process called logic, with which the hon. Gentleman might be unfamiliar. It...

Paul Farrelly | 460 c638 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He must have seen me straining at the leash. I am sure th...

Michael Gove | 460 c635-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way again, as the right hon. Gentleman has signalled that he is anxious to speak lat...

Paul Farrelly | 460 c636 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that where responsibility to gain these searches is transferred to the...

Michael Gove | 460 c635 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As we know, the right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich is a...

Speaker | 460 c635 (Link to this contribution) Order. These are serious matters. I think that hon. Members can be relied upon to declare their inte...

Claire Curtis-Thomas | 460 c635 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you confirm that it is not necessary to declare one’s ...

Michael Gove | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to that. I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman, as well as bringing expertise—[I...

Michael Gove | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. When home information packs were originally introduced, they...

Michael Gove | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) I am always interested to hear what the right hon. Gentleman has to say, as he is a figure of consid...

Nick Raynsford | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) I will declare it later.

Michael Gove | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) I happily give way to the right hon. Gentleman.

Michael Gove | 460 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) I could not have put it better myself; my hon. Friend makes the point for me. Just one year ago, whe...

John Hayes | 460 c633 (Link to this contribution) No more than my hon. Friend, whom I congratulate on his stance and on the service that he has done t...

Michael Gove | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The whole HIP package leads to an unnecessary duplication ...

John Redwood | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) On that very point, it is not only that there will be expenses at the beginning of the process and n...

Robert Neill | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government’s stance is hypocritical? They hold themselves out as ...

Michael Gove | 460 c632 (Link to this contribution) Not at this stage—forgive me. As I said, the Consumers Association called the regulations an expensi...

Michael Gove | 460 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I was on the radio this morning discussing the matter with a solicitor in north-east Wales who ...

Michael Gove | 460 c633 (Link to this contribution) I am more than happy to give way to my hon. Friend, who is an expert in such matters.

Nick Raynsford | 460 c630 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Michael Gove | 460 c630 (Link to this contribution) Not at this point. [Hon. Members: ““Frit!””] All in good time. The Labour peer who chaired the Hous...

Ian Lucas | 460 c630 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Michael Gove | 460 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. Instead of listening to the hon. Gentleman, let us listen to the experts—for exam...

John Hayes | 460 c632 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Michael Gove | 460 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall not at this point, but I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows that the Bank of England has ...

Ian Lucas | 460 c631 (Link to this contribution) I recall turbulence in the housing market, especially on a morning in 1992, when, as a solicitor, I ...

Michael Gove | 460 c631 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his history lesson, but he only underlines my point. Given t...

Claire Curtis-Thomas | 460 c630 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Michael Gove | 460 c630 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move."That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Home Information...

Claire Curtis-Thomas | 460 c650 (Link to this contribution) That is your view. Will the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Andrew Stunell) confirm that he is in favou...

Lord Stunell | 460 c651 (Link to this contribution) The Government ought really by now to have learned from what happened last July, when the late issui...

Robert Neill | 460 c640 (Link to this contribution) So why does the Better Regulation Commission point out that the EU directive on which the Minister h...

Nick Raynsford | 460 c634 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way at last. Will he acknowledge that £1 million is l...

Nick Raynsford | 460 c652-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, but such things take time and I would not expect to see an immediate re...

Nick Raynsford | 460 c654 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has much experience in this area, and she is right to say that it is all about improv...

Lord Stunell | 460 c649 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Windsor (Adam Afriyie).

Clive Betts | 460 c632 (Link to this contribution) Surely the hon. Gentleman acknowledges that there are some practical examples of the use of HIPs. Wi...

Michael Gove | 460 c630 (Link to this contribution) All in good time. The housing market has already been hit by a double whammy under the Government. A...

Andrew Miller | 460 c631 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

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Climate change

Competition

Housing

Inspections

Environment protection

Energy

Documents

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Home information packs

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Housing market

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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Energy performance certificates

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Home Information Pack Regulations 2007

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