Growth and Infrastructure Bill

I gather that there has been a consultation paper and consultations have closed. I understand tha...

My Lords, I have Amendment 55CB in this group, which has the same effect as that of the noble Lor...

My Lords, can the Minister enlighten us on the robustness of the attribution to affordable housin...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for his brevity in moving the amendment. He was ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her brief reply, matching the length of the moving of the amen...

My Lords, I think I indicated that I hope to be able to share at least some of the ideas behind t...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

55C: Clause 6, page 7, line 26, at end insert—

“(11A) ...

My Lords, this amendment serves to exempt planning obligations attached to planning permissions o...

My Lords, perhaps I could ask a question about this amendment. It seems to me that one of the und...

My Lords, I think I can reassure the noble Lord that that is precisely what we are looking for. W...

My Lords, I place on record our thanks to the Minister for fulfilling a commitment made in the ot...

Moved by

Lord Best

55D: Clause 6, page 8, line 16, at end insert—

“( ) This per...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 55E, 55EA and 55F. Amendment 55D, standing in my name ...

My Lords, I will speak to two of these amendments. First, I cannot support Amendment 55EA. It has...

The noble Lord, Lord Cameron, is making a series of very good points. Does he also believe that w...

It would. Local authorities are not the right bodies to involve in entrepreneurial activity. I sh...

My Lords, we have Amendment 55EB in this group. Before I speak briefly to that, I will say that I...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who tabled the amendments in this group. They seek to introduce som...

Perhaps I may pursue that point. I understand generally the points around the three years, but if...

I may need to write to the noble Lord on this. The whole development has got to start within thre...

I will not dwell on this because we have other things to discuss. As I understand it, the relevan...

My Lords, I do not want to cause any more confusion because it is too late for that. However, I m...

I understand what the noble Baroness has said, but perhaps we will return to the issue.

My Lords, I am grateful for the support of the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, for the absolutely cruci...

The noble Lord hoped he would make it clearer to me, but I had understood all that. The point is ...

I have failed in my mission to convince the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, but there was a good deal o...

Moved by

Lord Tope

56: Clause 6, page 9, line 38, at end insert—

“106BC Modific...

My Lords, Amendment 56 stands in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin of Roding. I am ...

My Lords, I am very pleased to be here to support my noble friend Lord Tope. It is about six hour...

My Lords, I am not unsympathetic to the thrust of the amendment that has been moved by the noble ...

My Lords, I must admit that, as I heard my noble friend Lord Jenkin making his contribution, I lo...

My Lords, I welcome those reassurances very warmly. I am grateful. Let me clarify for the noble L...

Can the noble Lord help me out on this point? Where Clause 6 refers to 106BB appeals, it states i...

I should have been a little quicker begging leave to withdraw. I would indeed welcome clarificati...

The Mayoral Development Corporation that is set up under the Localism Act might well be the sort ...

Not for the first time, I am grateful to my noble friend and I quickly beg leave to withdraw the ...

Moved by

Lord Tope

57: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—

“Indebt...

My Lords, I rise to speak to this amendment standing in my name and that of my noble friend Lord ...

My Lords, I strongly urge the amendment on my noble friend the Minister. My noble friend Lord Top...

My Lords, I support the noble Lords, Lord Tope and Lord Jenkin, and pledge the Local Government A...

My Lords, this proposed new clause is the same as that which my colleagues moved in Committee in ...

My Lords, first, various questions have been raised about comments from the Treasury, when those ...

The Minister referred to the 170,000 units of social housing which he said were being delivered. ...

I did say that this would be a figure up to 2015, so we can certainly provide details of the ones...

My Lords, I would indeed have been very pleasantly surprised if the Minister had stood up and acc...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

57A: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—

“Pl...

My Lords, Amendment 57A introduces a new clause. Its purpose is to probe further into the future ...

My Lords, not for the first time, we are indebted to the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for a list of ...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Greaves. He does himself an injustice in describi...

My Lords, I made it absolutely clear that this is a probing amendment. It is simply a means of pu...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

57B: Clause 7, page 10, line 10, leave out from “disposals,” to...

My Lords, the proposed amendment is to subsection (2) of Clause 7, which is about the,

“Sec...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Greaves has spoken to his amendments. I want to outline the Govern...

My Lords, noble Lords will understand why, in working my way through all those references, Acts a...