Housing and Regeneration Bill
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Parliamentary proceeding
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702 c197-248GC
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2007-08
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Committee stage
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Housing and Regeneration Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 47-EN also published.
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
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House of Lords
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
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House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Filkin | 702 c200-1GC (Link to this contribution)
I support what the noble Lord, Lord Best, said and the thrust of what the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwe...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c209-10GC (Link to this contribution)
The letter proposing the amendment to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, of which...
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Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 702 c216GC (Link to this contribution)
A question occurs to me, so I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, can illuminate me. Where there ...
Earl of Onslow | 702 c226-7GC (Link to this contribution)
I do not begrudge the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, her nanosecond of glory in the slightest. She is ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c226GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 99A:
99A: Clause 81, page 38, line 21, at end insert—
““( ) are public authori...
Earl Cathcart | 702 c236GC (Link to this contribution)
I support my noble friend Lord Eccles and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. The chairman plus three d...
Lord Haskel | 702 c197GC (Link to this contribution)
If there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as th...
Lord Best | 702 c197-200GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 97PA:
97PA: After Clause 61, insert the following new Clause—
““Power to exten...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c200GC (Link to this contribution)
I have two amendments in this group at the more extreme end of the matter. They delete the ineligibi...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c202-4GC (Link to this contribution)
I start by welcoming Members of the Committee to Part 2 of the Bill. We have looked forward to this ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c208GC (Link to this contribution)
That answers the short point. I am sorry that this has taken eight minutes; I had hoped that it coul...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c208GC (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister, but I did send a note saying, ““This is to probe what is meant by ‘mainly’; is...
Lord Whitty | 702 c214-5GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 98A:
98A: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause—
““Extension of rem...
Lord Greaves | 702 c216GC (Link to this contribution)
Briefly, I support everything that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, said. Sometimes that is true where y...
Lord Greaves | 702 c210-1GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 97Q:
97Q: Clause 70, page 34, line 16, leave out paragraph (b)
The noble Lord...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c216-8GC (Link to this contribution)
I look forward to my noble friend answering that difficult question. It is a relief when the questio...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c224-5GC (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord was not wrong, but I want to go further than that and make the simple point that the ...
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 702 c221-2GC (Link to this contribution)
It gives me great pleasure to be associated with the amendment of my noble friend Lord Graham, and I...
Earl of Onslow | 702 c229-30GC (Link to this contribution)
I know this is terribly important and screamingly complicated for anybody to understand. Before the ...
Earl of Onslow | 702 c232-3GC (Link to this contribution)
Before the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, withdraws her amendment, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady An...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c233GC (Link to this contribution)
As the noble Baroness knows, a large number of local authority homes have been transferred to housin...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c239GC (Link to this contribution)
It means that it is quite open to previous members of the Housing Corporation to be members of both ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c239GC (Link to this contribution)
For the avoidance of doubt, how does membership of the Housing Corporation affect applicants for cha...
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 702 c237GC (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble Baroness. I am not suggesting that it should be a bar. It may look odd, but it giv...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c233-4GC (Link to this contribution)
That is a slightly different point. Where does the remedy lie? I do not seek to argue—at least, not ...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c242-3GC (Link to this contribution)
I am impressed by the interest this group of amendments has aroused. I thank everybody who has taken...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c243GC (Link to this contribution)
I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
[Amendments Nos. 101A to 10...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c239-42GC (Link to this contribution)
I am pleased.
Amendment No. 101C of the noble Lord, Lord Dixon-Smith, and the noble Earl, Lord Cath...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c246-7GC (Link to this contribution)
I shall probably be the one who has to stop mid-sentence.
I have a good deal of sympathy with the n...
Lord Mawson | 702 c247-8GC (Link to this contribution)
Amendment No. 104ZA seeks to encourage the Minister and her colleagues to look carefully at how the ...
Baroness Wilkins | 702 c245-6GC (Link to this contribution)
Amendments Nos. 102A and 108A are in my name, and I shall speak to them briefly. Amendment No. 102A ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c201-2GC (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord, Lord Best, has introduced what I would call the uninvited guest to the feast. Whethe...
Lord Best | 702 c205-6GC (Link to this contribution)
I am enormously grateful to colleagues on all sides for their support. The only word of dissent revo...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c209GC (Link to this contribution)
The noble Baroness talked about powers, which I understand, but the clause is actually about transfe...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c208-9GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 97PE:
97PE: After Clause 68, insert the following new Clause—
““Transitional a...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c208GC (Link to this contribution)
I am extremely sorry. I did not mean to imply that in the tone or content of what I said. We underst...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c206-7GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 97PC:
97PC: Clause 63, page 31, line 23, leave out ““or mainly””
The noble Ba...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c210GC (Link to this contribution)
I do not have a precise timetable for this process, so I will have to write to the noble Viscount. W...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c212-3GC (Link to this contribution)
I greatly enjoyed the restrained contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, on what he describe...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c223-4GC (Link to this contribution)
In replying to this amendment, I think that I have been cast as the unwitting curmudgeon and I am no...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 702 c223GC (Link to this contribution)
Speak for yourself.
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c223GC (Link to this contribution)
A few months ago I met a gentleman whose daughter had given land to be used by a community land trus...
Lord Whitty | 702 c219GC (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for the support of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves. I am particularly grateful to the Min...
Baroness Whitaker | 702 c227-8GC (Link to this contribution)
The noble Earl, Lord Onslow, reminds me of my days on the Joint Committee on Human Rights, when righ...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 702 c225-6GC (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the Minister and his colleagues, who have clearly taken the issue seriously. I read...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c237-9GC (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to Members of the Committee who have spoken in this debate, and I have drawn on their ...
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 702 c236GC (Link to this contribution)
It has been quite complicated following the amendments through this group. The noble Baroness, Lady ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c235-6GC (Link to this contribution)
I have seven amendments in the group. I shall start by sharing a message that I have just received o...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c243GC (Link to this contribution)
This is a serious point and I know that I am being tedious today. On declaration of interest and the...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c243GC (Link to this contribution)
I will write on this important point. It is, I think, somewhere in Clause 81. It is a matter of proc...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c242GC (Link to this contribution)
Before the noble Viscount replies, I thank the noble Lord for those comments. As regards the misbeha...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c248GC (Link to this contribution)
I am so sorry to interrupt the noble Lord but the Division Bell has sounded. I suggest that the Hous...
Lord Colwyn | 702 c248GC (Link to this contribution)
The Committee stands adjourned until Monday 16 June at 3.30 pm.
Baroness Whitaker | 702 c202GC (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry to be a bit cold waterish about the amendment, particularly as I strongly support the pri...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c204-5GC (Link to this contribution)
I do not think that the parallel with emergency powers holds good because we are in the middle of a ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c204GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, there is an instance of this having being done on the emergency powers Bill. Draft regulat...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c207-8GC (Link to this contribution)
This amendment, in the context of Welsh housing, probes the extent of the Bill and the separation be...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c209GC (Link to this contribution)
““Functions”” includes ““powers””; I was using the words interchangeably as I spoke. I may well be a...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c216GC (Link to this contribution)
I sympathise with the proposal but add a word of caution. I heard what the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c214GC (Link to this contribution)
I have no objection to the clause standing part subject to the typos being corrected. A cross-refere...
Lord Greaves | 702 c213-4GC (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for that careful reply. It is probably true that these amendments are technical...
Lord Best | 702 c222GC (Link to this contribution)
My name is added to Amendments Nos. 111 and 112 which, at the very least, gives us the satisfaction ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c222-3GC (Link to this contribution)
The poor noble Lord, Lord Bassam, is having a very hard time because we are all suspecting his motiv...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 702 c219-21GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 99:
99: Clause 80, page 37, line 38, after ““England,”” insert—
““( ) a commun...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c228-9GC (Link to this contribution)
This is an important debate. I am grateful for the way in which it was opened, in competition, by th...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c230-2GC (Link to this contribution)
The simple answer is that we have never considered that housing associations performed functions of ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c233GC (Link to this contribution)
In Grand Committee, I have no alternative but to withdraw my amendment, but I want to make a couple ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c236GC (Link to this contribution)
It is very difficult to probe the reasons for something. The words, ““membership of the Housing Corp...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c234GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 101:
101: Clause 83, page 39, line 1, leave out ““3”” and insert ““6””
The no...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c243-4GC (Link to this contribution)
Before I address whether Clause 87 should stand part of the Bill, I should say that, since we are ex...
Earl Cathcart | 702 c244-5GC (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 102ZD:
102ZD: Clause 88, page 40, line 17, leave out subsection (1) and insert...
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