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Housing and Regeneration Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 28 April 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Andrews. The answering member was Lord Dixon-Smith.
Housing and Regeneration Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
701 c40-120 
Session
2007-08
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 701 c57-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I first declare an interest: I am a non-executive director of the Taylor Wimpey plc house-...
Lord Best | 701 c54-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare my interests, from none of which I derive personal financial benefit, in the loc...

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Baroness Whitaker | 701 c63-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to welcome the Bill. We had not been building enough housing for 35 years. ...
Bishop of Leicester | 701 c61-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my welcome in principle for the Bill, which has already been widely expressed by nob...
Baroness Andrews | 701 c40-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. I am delighted to introduce the H...
Baroness Hamwee | 701 c51-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a delight to see so many speakers on a subject which not long ago attracted only a v...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 701 c47-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I need to clear the air slightly by declaring a number of interests. I am a landowner in E...
Baroness Ford | 701 c65-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too am pleased to welcome the Second Reading of the Housing and Regeneration Bill and to...
Lord Smith of Leigh | 701 c69-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, housing has long been regarded as too important to be left to the market mechanism to dete...
Lord Sawyer | 701 c105-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my contribution is the last from the Back Benches tonight. Many of the things that I wante...
Lord Whitty | 701 c102-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had better make it clear at the beginning that I am strongly in favour of the main provi...
Baroness Andrews | 701 c113-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been a thoroughly excellent debate. I congratulate everyone who has taken part in i...
Lord Filkin | 701 c71-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like to speak to Part 2 of the Bill, but before doing so I should, as usual, make...
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 701 c85-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I begin I would like to declare an interest as the chair of Circle 33 Housing Assoc...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 701 c81-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government have done many good and important things in housing. Street homelessness an...
Lord Patten | 701 c75-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, about 10 minutes ago, while sitting on my perch up here on the Back Benches, my heart leap...
Baroness Billingham | 701 c95-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government are indeed to be congratulated on the Bill as a way to make homes more affo...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 701 c92-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin with an apology for having missed the Minister’s speech and that of the Opposition...
Baroness Wilkins | 701 c90-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for missing the first few minutes of my noble friend the Minister’s splendid e...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 701 c88-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are many issues that I would like to address this evening, not least rural housing, ...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 701 c107-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should start by declaring an interest. I am a member of the group board of the Hyde Grou...
Lord Morris of Handsworth | 701 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at this point in the debate, much has already been said about the Bill. I declare an inter...
Lord Mawson | 701 c98-102 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome what I perceive the Government are attempting to achieve in this Bill. The...
Earl Cathcart | 701 c109-13 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am slightly confused as to whether that was a Back-Bench contribution or a winding up sp...
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