Growth and Infrastructure Bill

Before the noble Lord sits down, I would draw the attention of the House to the fact that althoug...

My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Best, and wi...

My Lords, I hope the Minister listens to the specific concern to make this “in between” clause ac...

My noble friend Lord Deben makes a powerful case. Does he agree that it is sometimes forgotten by...

I repeat what I said in the earlier part of this debate. I declare an interest in the sense that ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I used to dabble in this myself some years ago an...

I am not sure that I entirely follow the noble Lord’s point, but it is true that the Treasury is ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Deben, has taken a broad interpretation of the scope of the amendm...

My Lords, I will be brief. I should like to support my noble friend Lord Best. I declare an inter...

My Lords, I remind the Committee that we have been through, and probably are still in, the most i...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Deben, made what Ministers are apt to call some interesting points...

The noble Lord reminds me of what Pendle Council did when I was chairman of the housing committee...

Precisely. I do not know whether the noble Lord, Lord Deben, would agree but that might be one of...

My Lords, let me say at the start that I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Best. I wa...

There are two very quick things that the noble Lord has to take into account. One is: who pays th...

It seems to me that the value comes from the granting of planning permission in respect of the la...

I wonder whether the noble Lord recalls that I referred to the development land tax at Second Rea...

We did very well out of it in Luton, I am bound to say, but I should stress that it is not Labour...

My Lords, we are back in the situation we were in last time. I am not sure whether I am answering...

My Lords, perhaps the Minister could comment briefly on the proposal that local authorities shoul...

My Lords, I would be very happy to write to the noble Lord, but my feeling is that, if the local ...

My Lords, I am deeply grateful to all noble Lords who have joined in this debate. By covering a l...

I think that I said it was worthy of consideration.

I accept that with some gratitude. The noble Lord, Lord Alton, talked about the social mix on dec...

Moved by

Lord Best

55A: Clause 6, page 6, line 5, at end insert—

“(1A) This sec...

Apologies, my Lords, it is me again. The amendments that follow set out further proposals to mode...

My Lords, we have a couple of amendments in this group, but perhaps I might make a few upfront co...

My Lords, I do not think that I can actually move the sunset clause. Amendment 55CD is in a group...

My Lords, in September last year Housing Voice, which calls itself the Affordable Homes Alliance,...

The noble Lord makes some good points. I will put a slightly different scenario to him and ask wh...

If I did, it would not necessarily be one that has as yet been reached by my colleagues at the ot...

Of course, they were originally going to stack up because the relatively small gap funding requir...

There is, of course, also £300 million in the Government’s programme for affordable housing. I ha...

My Lords, I apologise. I was not sure whether the exchange across the House had been totally comp...

Neither was I.

My Lords, within this group of amendments we cover some of the ground we have already covered, so...

I am grateful to the Minister for her detailed replies. Perhaps I may follow up on one or two poi...

My Lords, I can deal with the final point first. As I have said a number of times, the clause is ...

I understand why the Government are saying that the issues should be separated; whether I accept ...

My Lords, I think that the answer is: simply because affordable housing is such a significant ele...

On the question of the two types of Section 106 agreements, if renegotiation of non-housing Secti...

That is because we are concentrating here only on affordable housing. Putting this in primary leg...

My Lords, this has been an important debate. My amendment and some of the others in the group are...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

55AB: Clause 6, page 6, leave out lines 11 and 12

My Lords, I shall speak also to our other amendments in this group—Amendments 55AF, 55BB and 55BD...

My Lords, Amendment 55B in this group, which is in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Top...

The noble Lord, Lord Best, has spoken to Amendment 55B, which seeks to allow the modified obligat...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I would like to read the record on the issue bet...

I enjoy Committee; there is always this bobbing up and down. It seems inconceivable that develope...

I beg leave to withdraw.

Moved by

Lord Tope

55AC: Clause 6, page 6, line 15, at end insert—

“(2A) An aut...

My Lords, Amendment 55AC is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Shipley. The intention of...

My Lords, our Amendments 55AD, 55AE and 55CA are in this group. Amendment 55AD touches on the bas...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, briefly spoke to my Amendment 55BA, which states that,