Growth and Infrastructure Bill

Amendment 75ZAB stands in my name and in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Valentine. This ame...

My Lords, Amendment 75ZAB stands in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. I declare ...

Can the noble Baroness confirm that this should apply—and the amendment does apply—well outside L...

Yes, indeed, it would be a national system.

My Lords, I support my noble friend and the noble Baroness in this amendment. It is something tha...

My Lords, I wish my noble friend Lord Snape well in his quest to abolish all medieval practices i...

If my noble friend will allow me to say so, at least some of us in this House have occasionally s...

Of course, in medieval times exit was not a permitted right. The issue here is a very simple and ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for tabling this amendment and for rais...

I am very grateful to the Minister for what I felt was a positive response. I did not really need...

Moved by

Lord Greenway

75A: Clause 22, page 22, line 39, leave out “Sections 128 and ...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 75B, 77ZA, 77ZB and 77ZC. The amendments are to do wit...

My Lords, I start by thanking the Ministers—the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, and the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, Amendments 76 and 77 are in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and myself, and...

Noble Lords have different views about the precise scope of the special parliamentary procedure, ...

My Lords, I support the amendments and the stand part debate proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Fau...

I apologise, but my noble friend may have been asleep at the point when I spoke quite heavily to ...

The noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, indeed spoke to the amendments, and his name is on them, so I am jus...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for the amendments they have tabled, in particular the...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Has he any estimate of how long it would have tak...

That would be speculating but I will come to the specific issue of judicial review in a moment an...

Does my noble friend agree that what is set out in the Bill is not a balanced view of the public ...

I thank my noble friend for his intervention, but I do not agree with him on this point. We are n...

My Lords, I have just two points. First, the Minister said that it was important in the national ...

My Lords, there has been a fairly wide-ranging debate on this group of amendments, covering ports...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

77ZAA: Clause 22, page 24, line 26, leave out “To ensure tha...

Moved by

Lord Faulkner of Worcester

77ZD: Clause 23, page 25, leave out lines 8 to 26...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 77ZE and 77ZF. I have also given notice that I wish to...

My Lords, I wish to put on record that I support the amendments of the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner....

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner, for explaining the reasoning behind his...

My Lords, I can start with the easy bit, which is to thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for his ...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

77ZG: Clause 23, page 29, line 25, leave out from “(5)” to “...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

77ZH: After Clause 23, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, Amendment 77ZH introduces a new clause to provide a new procedure for the appropriation...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Greaves for explaining his proposed new clause. He is of c...

My Lords, I might be persuaded to withdraw my amendment when I have said one or two more things. ...

Moved by

Lord Adonis

77ZJ: Clause 24, page 29, line 32, after “may” insert “, subject...

My Lords, I will speak to the six amendments in this group standing in my name. The question befo...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 78 in this group, which is in my name and that of the noble L...

My Lords, this group of amendments seeks to set out in the Bill the types of development and deve...

I did not intervene in the debate, because the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, made the point. When wi...

My Lords, I think that I made clear in my remarks that we are considering the results of the cons...

My Lords, I did not quite catch what the Minister said. Will a published summary of the issues en...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for those questions. The noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, asked about the s...

I will perhaps take up the question of fracking with the Minister outside the Chamber. However, t...

I understood that that was what the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, was getting at. I have committed to...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, raises a point of some substance. I have read the summary...

My instinct would say that if it is there, then the Government are going to introduce it and are ...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Adonis

77ZK: Clause 24, page 29, line 35, at end insert—

“( ) The...

My Lords, the amendment standing in my name in this group is very simple. It would require the Se...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 77A, 77B and 78A, and to the question of whether Clause 2...

My Lords, I was going to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Young, on her brilliant speech tha...

I am tempted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, in his interesting excursion into these matt...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s contention that this clause do not stand part of the Bill. ...

I thank those noble Lords who have taken part in this rather interesting and short debate. I will...

All the points that I made earlier were taken in the Minister’s letter. Having read it very caref...

If there are letters floating around which are being debated here, I wonder whether we might all ...

My Lords, the letter in question was to the noble Baroness. If she is happy for it to be made ava...

Can the Minister respond to an issue raised by a number of noble Lords on the question of when we...

We have a number of consultations coming through to fruition, so I am not able to stand here now ...

I listened with great care to what my noble friend said on the question of who can make an applic...

On the question of proposed types of development and thresholds, on which the noble Baroness, Lad...

I would like to ask a question that the Minister might want to write to us about in some detail. ...

I hope I did not speed over the amendment or that the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, had not gone to sl...

Will my noble friend comment on my request for some more detailed statistical information on thes...

If I can get what my noble friend requires, I will make sure he and the Committee get that before...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

My Lords, just before I resume the House, I alert speakers in the debate that, as we now have a s...