Deregulation Bill

With this we may take Government amendments (a) and (b) in lieu.

I want briefly to outline why the Government have introduced amendments in lieu of Lords amendmen...

Anybody would think, from the way the Minister just presented his case, that this has been a smoo...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course. I cannot think of anyone to whom I would want to give way more.

The lack of any other options on the Government Benches may have something to do with that. I hop...

I did not give way to the hon. Gentleman faute de mieux. He is right in what he says, and some Op...

rose—

I see that the hon. Gentleman is pregnant.

If the BBC has had such a tough financial settlement and it can no longer go on with a freeze on ...

Those are precisely the kinds of points the BBC has to address. It has to make sure that more and...

rose—

I was on my very last sentence. Normally, hon. Members are clamouring for me to stop, but I see t...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that in principle it is wrong for somebody to be sent to prison for...

I believe in the licence fee. I would like to see decriminalisation. If we can achieve decriminal...

I start by expressing my deep disappointment that the amendment has been added to the Bill by the...

In referring to all those Members, the hon. Gentleman might also point out their slightly wider c...

Order. I do not think it is fascinating; we are not here to debate Members of the other place. We...

Thank you for that guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. I much appreciate it. However, I point out to ...

Does my hon. Friend consider it disproportionate to imprison somebody for non-payment of a relati...

Not only do the majority of Members of this House think that the measure is disproportionate; I h...

To be absolutely clear, people are not going to prison for refusing to pay the TV licence fee. Th...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. People go to prison not for not paying the licence fee, b...

I will make a few short comments in relation to the points that have been made in the debate. It ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) is the ideal Oppo...

I certainly agree with my hon. Friend on that, and I am confident that the hon. Gentleman will st...

I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lords amendments 2 to 17.

L...

It seems a long time since I was sitting opposite the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central...

Will the Minister answer two questions? First, is the opposition to my amendments unanimous acros...

On the number of revenge evictions, I will have to get back to the hon. Gentleman; I may get insp...

Rubbish!

Even if the hon. Gentleman feels that the figure is rubbish and it is perhaps half that, 40,000 r...

Why are the Government basing their figures on an opinion poll commissioned by a campaigning char...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. He thinks that the figure is lower, at ...

I hope to catch your eye later, Madame Deputy Speaker, but it is pretty clear that there is no un...

I will provide greater explanation in a few minutes. I hope that it will satisfy my hon. Friend, ...

I did not quite follow the Minister’s argument. He accepted the fact that London is different and...

I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman was paraphrasing me. What I should have said is th...

I, too, hope to catch your eye in this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister is a London MP,...

The Government are clear that the proposals are not about facilitating a process that will allow ...

I will not intervene again, but may I ask about that particular point? The Minister is saying tha...

The hon. Lady will hear what I have to say about enforcement notices, and she may want to pick th...

Let us try to dig a little into precisely how big that concession is. Would the Minister allow lo...

I am sure that my hon. Friend was listening carefully. I said that the Secretary of State would h...

The Minister mentions Wimbledon and I have no doubt that he is also thinking about things such as...

Clearly there is a localism aspect to the proposal. If, as some Opposition Members are saying, th...

Thank you, Minister. That was quite a few “Finallys.”

The Opposition welcome many of the Lords amendments. It has been an 18-month process to bring the...

The alternative is that when the vulnerable women the hon. Gentleman refers to call a taxi firm, ...

The taxi and private hire vehicle marketplace is increasingly competitive, and users of those veh...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way again?

The Minister did speak for 38 minutes, but I will give way.

I also took some interventions. Will the hon. Gentleman clarify whether all those private hire co...

The Opposition think it is important that local authorities take seriously their responsibility t...

Sensible, pragmatic regulations exempting the Greater London area from a short-lets free-for-all ...

I, too, rise to speak strongly in support of amendments (a) to (k) to Lords amendment 27, tabled ...

I begin by drawing the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Intere...

Order. Before you proceed, Mr Davies, let me say that that is extremely helpful and that I am ver...

I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a shame that the debate clashes with the first day of ...

Given the excellent speeches we have already heard on this subject from my hon. Friend the Member...

I, too, intend to speak about the provisions on short-term lettings. I very much endorse the view...

I do not want to repeat what others have said but rather to address a specific local issue for me...

With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will try to respond to most, if not all of t...

Will the Minister elaborate on that point? Once the legislation has gone through, will local auth...

The honest answer is that we do not yet have such details, but they will be set out in regulation...

The Minister has just conceded that he does not know how the system will work and that we will ha...

I thank the hon. Lady for expanding on how the proposal would work. However efficient Westminster...

How?

I assume that local authorities will be provided with the information—the hon. Lady and other Mem...

Order. The right hon. Gentleman has the leave of the House to speak for a second time in this sho...

Thank you for the clarity, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will conclude and I apologise that I was not a...