Growth and Infrastructure Bill

My Lords, as a courtesy to the noble Earl, if noble Lords wish to leave the Chamber, may I sugges...

My Lords, as I was saying, I have a professional interest and involvement in the world of compuls...

My Lords, we should thank the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, for his amendments because he raises an is...

First, I join the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, in thanking the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, for explain...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord very much for his reply. As I said, my amendments are probing—I ...

Moved by

Lord Adonis

59A: Clause 8, page 10, line 31, at end insert—

“(1A) The ...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 59B in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Whitake...

My Lords, in speaking to this group of amendments, I declare my interest as president of the Sout...

My Lords, I support the deletion of Clause 8 and in so doing I thank my noble friends Lord Greave...

My Lords, I am very glad to be able to warmly support the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, for the...

My Lords, I declare an interest in this matter, as I live in the South Downs National Park; indee...

My Lords, I come to this clause and this group of amendments entirely from an economic perspectiv...

My Lords, I have some amendments in this group. In view of the discussions that are likely to tak...

My Lords, I put my name to these amendments for very much the reasons put forward by the noble Lo...

The noble Lord referred to world heritage. I am sure he will be aware that the Lake District, whe...

I entirely agree with the noble Lord. I hope that the Lake District gets that status. The noble L...

My Lords, I apologise to the House for missing the opening speech of the noble Lord, Lord Adonis,...

My Lords, I had the privilege of representing for many years Exmoor National Park and the Quantoc...

My Lords, I was looking around the Chamber to check that everyone had finished. Many points have ...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend but, before she goes into the detail of her speech, I jus...

My Lords, I am grateful for that and I apologise to the noble Baroness for not realising that. Ho...

This is a crucial point. It is clear that they can still put them underground if they wish to, al...

I cannot answer the noble Lord’s question. He probably does not really expect me to answer it her...

The noble Baroness said that the requirement for prior approval will be removed. However, she sti...

My Lords, I have about another 15 pages in my brief.

Again, referring to the consultation p...

The noble Baroness referred to conservation areas but did not cite any evidence in respect of nat...

My Lords, I was citing the reason for the process in conservation areas taking up to two and a ha...

As I understand it, there are no proposed changes in this legislation to conservation areas. I de...

I am citing conservation areas that in many cases are in urban areas and have held up some of the...

I wonder whether the Minister would write to me on that, as she does not have the answer. I asked...

My Lords, as I understand it, the rules in conservation areas are not to be changed.

Under ...

Before the noble Baroness turns to the amendments, perhaps I may ask her a question. I have great...

My Lords, I remind noble Lords that we are in Committee. Noble Lords may speak as many times as t...

I assure the Committee that I will not repeat what I have already said, in spite of what we have ...

My Lords, I am beginning to feel like a jack-in- the-box. I hope that I do not look like one, but...

My Lords, we are very grateful to the noble Baroness for giving us so much detail as to how the r...

My Lords, first, we need some speed to get this done. As the noble Lord will know, so far there h...

My Lords, that does not meet the point at all. The evidence which the national parks have given t...

Before my noble friend responds to that, I wonder whether the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, has taken ...

My Lords, I am not sure whether the noble Lord was present for my opening speech, but I pointed o...

Is there not a serious point in what the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, has just read out? The noble Lo...

I apologise to the Committee for intervening now; I thought that I would intervene earlier but fe...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Earl. I will make sure that that is considered and give him ...

My Lords, it is always good to try to be constructive. Given the scale of the concern that has be...

My Lords, the noble Lord knows that I am always happy to have meetings that are relevant to the l...

I very much welcome that commitment from the noble Baroness. I hope that Mr Boles will also be pr...

Perhaps I may ask the Minister to address an issue that was not fully responded to in her reply—a...

My Lords, I apologise for overlooking that. The proposal is that the code should not be statutory...

My Lords, perhaps I could ask again: if everything goes well with a particular proposal and notif...

My Lords, with regard to the latter point made by the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, this was a discus...

The Minister said that she was willing to consult, which is encouraging. Can she say a little bit...

My Lords, I am sure that that is worthy of an amendment on Report. I am sure that they will be ex...

But it is highly relevant to this legislation, because that is a cost to be borne in mind when a ...

My Lords, I think that we will not take that any further.

My Lords, on the basis that the Minister is content to meet the chief executives of the national ...

I am content to meet their representatives. If we confine ourselves to chief executives, they may...

On that basis, my Lords, after an hour and 48 minutes, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Tabled by

Baroness Whitaker

59C: Clause 8, page 10, line 31, at end insert—

“( ...

On the basis of the discussion of consultation, I shall not move the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Jenkin of Roding

60: After Clause 8, insert the following new Clause—