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2006-07

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Greater London Authority Bill. Lords amendments. Explanatory Notes Bill 158-EN also published.
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
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Proceeding contributions

Robert Neill | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) It will be the last time. I would be grateful if the Minister would clarify a comment that he made e...

John Healey | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) No. I am sorry. I am finishing on that point. For the reasons that I have set out, I urge my hon. F...

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Tom Brake | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

John Healey | 464 c500 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.

Speaker | 464 c501 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 4 to 9.

John Healey | 464 c501 (Link to this contribution) We have reached a group of amendments that the Government tabled in the other place in response to t...

Robert Neill | 464 c501 (Link to this contribution) The Minister and I are in accord on the amendments and I am grateful to him for the spirit in which ...

Tom Brake | 464 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) I, too, support the amendments. If I were being churlish, I would question the reason for missing ou...

Mark Field | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I support what the Government are trying to achieve. However, in view of th...

Speaker | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman clearly is not giving way at this moment.

Andrew Dismore | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Boris Johnson | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I could just say that I want very much to echo what my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of ...

Speaker | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am not sure that the remit of the amendment includes who or who is not being considered as ...

Boris Johnson | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I think that everybody in the House wants to see a mayoralty that responds to the wishes of local co...

Clive Efford | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. If an hon. Member is going to make a contribution in such...

Speaker | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I think that that will become evident from the remarks that they make.

Speaker | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is clearly not giving way at the moment. Have you concluded your remarks, ...

John Healey | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.

Speaker | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendments Nos. 11 to 16.

John Healey | 464 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) In this group we propose a number of amendments to the planning clauses of the Bill, following usefu...

Charles Walker | 464 c504 (Link to this contribution) As someone who did not serve on the Bill Committee I am perhaps not as au fait with this matter as I...

Boris Johnson | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I have.

John Healey | 464 c503 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman to the debate. We missed his contribution and his presence in earlier d...

Robert Neill | 464 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I should like to deal with the detail of the amendments fairly briefly, before coming to the underly...

John Healey | 464 c504 (Link to this contribution) The provisions in the Bill allow for the Mayor to get involved in major developments and application...

Robert Neill | 464 c505 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. A regrettable fact of London life is that the Mayor has not approached ...

Lee Scott | 464 c505 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the amendment, however helpful in improving the position, does not le...

Tom Brake | 464 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the Mayor will not control collections, because I think that that should be the bo...

John Healey | 464 c508 (Link to this contribution) I mentioned the implementation order in my opening remarks. We intend to introduce it as soon as pos...

John Healey | 464 c506 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment. In the other place, the ...

Mark Field | 464 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) We have rehearsed on several occasions in the House and in Committee our concerns about strategic po...

John Healey | 464 c506 (Link to this contribution) I welcome both Opposition parties' support for the amendments, if not for the broader principles, re...

Tom Brake | 464 c505 (Link to this contribution) I echo the hon. Gentleman's points. What the Government are proposing will certainly improve a flawe...

John Healey | 464 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) We propose a number of amendments to the climate change clauses, following valuable scrutiny of the ...

Speaker | 464 c508 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 19 to 29.

John Healey | 464 c508 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.

Robert Neill | 464 c509 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for the way that he has introduced the amendments. We have no issue wi...

Tom Brake | 464 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments without equivocation. As the Minister said, they are about sharpening the c...

John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.

Speaker | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendment No. 31.

John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) Both amendments respond to recommendations from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee...

John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, that this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.

Speaker | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 33 and 34.

John Healey | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) Confirmation hearings, as set out in schedule 1 to the Bill, provide an important new power for the ...

Tom Brake | 464 c511 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments with the same caveats about confirmation hearings. When we debated the matt...

Andy Slaughter | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Robert Neill | 464 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman's interventions do not become any more considered with the passag...

Andy Slaughter | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) I simply wish to ask a question: will this set a precedent for the Conservatives? Will there be sepa...

Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) I shall do so once more, and I hope that the hon. Gentleman's intervention will be better this time....

Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's intervention was not any better, and I shall not repeat my mistake.

David Evennett | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a sound and sensible speech. Londoners want there to be checks and balance ...

Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to my hon. Friend.

Andy Slaughter | 464 c483 (Link to this contribution) It is uncomfortable for me to witness the hon. Gentleman wriggling. We would like to hear why, in co...

Robert Neill | 464 c483 (Link to this contribution) I do not recall that their Lordships wanted to go into that degree of detail—although the debate ran...

Mark Field | 464 c483 (Link to this contribution) Unlike my hon. Friend, I have not had the opportunity of reading the Hansard reports of the Lords de...

Robert Neill | 464 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his kind words. The matters under discussion have been an entertaining ““Lo...

Mark Field | 464 c482 (Link to this contribution) Where towns or cities are in effect one-party states—there are perhaps more of them involving his pa...

John Healey | 464 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendment. I welcome the hon. M...

Clive Efford | 464 c489 (Link to this contribution) It is a curious position of principle to suggest that because someone does not like the outcome of a...

John Healey | 464 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) set out some general concerns and argumen...

Simon Burns | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to upset my hon. Friend, but I should mention that the founding fathers had no view on...

Mark Field | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to a great friend of mine whose knowledge of American politics knows no limits.

Mark Field | 464 c488 (Link to this contribution) I know that the loquaciousness of north Essex Members knows no bounds, but I think that we will leav...

Simon Burns | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening carefully to my hon. Friend's thesis. Are the Liberal Democrats not taking an ...

Mark Field | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) To a large extent, it was. I served under Baroness Hanham as a councillor in the royal borough of Ke...

Simon Burns | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Mark Field | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) I shall leave it to the opponents of the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington to make that case...

Tom Brake | 464 c487 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that he thought that the official Opposition in the other place had simply r...

Mark Field | 464 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) I regret that my party was associated with this matter in the House of Lords, because it is wholly w...

Tom Brake | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. I merely restate the fact that this was not intended to be a partisan am...

Andy Slaughter | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) says, the hon. Gentleman is therefore guilty o...

Andy Slaughter | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) In Committee, I had the privilege of listening to the hon. Gentleman describe, in a moment of rare s...

Tom Brake | 464 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was present during Committee, but we supported the idea of ...

Andrew Dismore | 464 c485 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will correct me if I am wrong, but it was not just the official Op...

Tom Brake | 464 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to return to this matter, which I raised in Committee. We had much fun with it, and I r...

Robert Neill | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. It is important to remember that the boroughs are a third key part of the e...

Mark Field | 464 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right when he says that we want a strong executive Mayor. I share and understand som...

Tom Brake | 464 c495 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions deadlock. When I asked the officers of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat...

Mark Field | 464 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Of course, there are many examples across the country of tho...

John Healey | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) As I tried to explain to the House, and as the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr....

Robert Neill | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister help me on two short questions? First, in our tradition and process, where is there...

John Healey | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) The point that I was making is that the New York model does not translate. Instead of all members of...

Robert Neill | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister saying that there is any other city or town in the United Kingdom which has a direct...

John Healey | 464 c496 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The hon. Gentleman went on to talk about back-stairs deals. One could look at the budget proce...

John Healey | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman wish to come back?

John Healey | 464 c489 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Shortly we shall see the decisions that all hon. Members, particularly thos...

Robert Neill | 464 c492 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little progress before I indulge the hon. Gentleman. It is important that the system...

John Healey | 464 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment. The hon. Member for Bro...

Robert Neill | 464 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) In our judgment, the other place has clearly and significantly improved the Bill in this case and I ...

Andy Slaughter | 464 c492 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I am pleased to see that the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. J...

Robert Neill | 464 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should have been more patient, because I was dealing first with the lack ...

Robert Neill | 464 c492 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman who is itching to speak.

Tom Brake | 464 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am pleased to return to this matter, which was debated at greater length than any other in ...

John Healey | 464 c497 (Link to this contribution) Yes—Doncaster, Watford, Hackney. I return to the point that I was making. Out of the 25 elected Ass...

Robert Neill | 464 c507 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his introduction of the amendment. As he said, I welcome the Gover...

Robert Neill | 464 c510-1 (Link to this contribution) We accept the Minister's sensible amendments. The principle of confirmation hearings is, I concede, ...

John Healey | 464 c482 (Link to this contribution) No, I am simply trying to do justice to some of the arguments that were made in debates during previ...

Tom Brake | 464 c486 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I had made it extremely clear that we are in favour of a two-term limit, but that Bar...

Robert Neill | 464 c510 (Link to this contribution) Suffice it to say that we agree with the Minister and have nothing to add. Lords amendment agreed t...

Clive Efford | 464 c502 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has spoken with a great deal of common sense in this debate, although we were on ...

Speaker | 464 c488 (Link to this contribution) Order. Extending the debate to the outer limits of Chelmsford is one thing, but extending it across ...

David Evennett | 464 c484 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

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