Growth and Infrastructure Bill
Department for Communities and Local Government
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Bills
House of Lords
Moved by
Baroness Hanham
That this House do not insist on its Amendment 7, to which t...
My Lords, at Third Reading this House made an amendment to provide local authorities with further...
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Moved by
Lord McKenzie of Luton
As an amendment to Motion A, leave out from “House” t...
My Lords, I should explain that we tabled this Motion, which insists on the position originally t...
My Lords, I noticed that many of the views expressed by the spokesman for the Opposition agreed w...
My Lords, I should declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I...
I rise only because my noble friend, like my right honourable friend, has drawn into consultation...
My Lords, I agree entirely with what my noble friend Lord Deben says about conservation areas. I ...
My Lords, I join others in welcoming the Government’s partial, if deathbed, conversion to doing s...
My Lords, very briefly, in my 26 years as legal eagle on the “Jimmy Young Show” on Radio 2, there...
My Lords, in rising, I feel rather like the ancient prophetess who went to see King Tarquin with ...
My Lords, I will not detain the House for long. My interest as a practising chartered surveyor in...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have spoken, particularly my noble friend Lord True, for th...
My noble friend has not yet reached this point, but will this also include the time that will be ...
The noble Lord has jumped in ahead of me: no. Planning permission currently has no timescale of h...
My Lords, I start by thanking the Minister for dealing extensively with the queries that were rai...
Moved by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
That this House do not insist on its Amendment 25...
My Lords, I am grateful for the full and wide-ranging debate that has taken place during our cons...
I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way at this stage. However, he has rattled through ...
I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. This currently remains an entirely voluntary procedu...
I am sorry; it is very unusual to intervene twice. However, where is the option? The Minister has...
I am not sure I entirely understand where the noble Lord is coming from. If a jobseeker is seekin...
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Is he therefore confirming in that reply ...
The answer is that if an employer wants to recruit an employee shareholder, he or she will decide...
My apologies for coming in again. What is voluntary about that for the jobseeker in those circums...
It remains the case that an employee looking for a position can decide for himself or herself whe...
The Minister says that he does not expect employees to enter into such contracts without careful ...
The noble Lord makes a good point. The matter of what types of shares and what shares are offered...
I am most grateful to my noble friend. When he says that the valuation and the convertibility of ...
The matter of advice is very much applicable to settlement or compromise agreements, as my noble ...
I think the Minister has confirmed—but perhaps he could avoid any doubt about this—that it would ...
I disagree entirely with the noble Lord because the employee shareholder will decide for himself....
My Lords, could the noble Viscount explain to us how jobseekers, who may have no resources whatev...
Yes, I can answer that. However, the issues may not be that complex. It depends entirely on the a...
How do these jobseekers pay for this advice? Does the noble Viscount have a special fund which wi...
To clarify what I said to my noble friend Lord Forsyth a minute ago, legal advice is clearly avai...
I wonder whether I can help my noble friend. When my companies give shares to our employees, not ...
I very much note my noble friend’s point. He has experience in this field. I say again that some ...
I hope that I may be allowed to move on.
The Minister has just said that legal advice is available for settlement and compromise agreement...
I can only reiterate that it entirely depends on the role on offer, the type of company and the t...
I am most grateful to my noble friend for giving way and I shall try not to interrupt him again. ...
I know of many employee contracts—not those for an employee shareholder—where serious advice is r...
I hope that I may be allowed to finish. I urge the House to keep this innovative proposal as part...
Moved by
Lord Pannick
As an amendment to Motion B, leave out from “House” to end and ...
My Lords, on 20 March, your Lordships’ House voted by a majority of 54 to exclude Clause 27 from ...
My Lords, I hesitate to follow the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, who has set out very clearly and per...
My Lords, I cannot match the advocacy of either the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, or the noble Lord, ...
I am most grateful to my noble friend. I agree with his point about the tax allowance. If someone...
That is the very point that I made when we last debated the issue in this House. That is why I th...
I am most grateful to my noble friend. Does that not then mean that the value of the employment r...
First of all, it depends on what is on offer. It is broadly for the company to decide the amount ...
My Lords, unfortunately, I was unable to be present at Report stage, but I was struck when I read...
My Lords, noble Lords may be somewhat surprised that I speak on this issue, but it so happens tha...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, very kindly reminded the House of my words at an earlier ...
I apologise for interrupting and thank the noble Lord for giving way. However, does not everythin...
The noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, puts me in the most difficult of positions. I have spent ...
My Lords, there are already in existence what I suppose you could call partnership schemes, where...
My Lords, I want to start by thanking the Government for the concession on jobseeker’s allowance ...
Before the noble Baroness sits down, I wonder if she could help us with the question that the nob...
My Lords, I believe that is well above my pay grade.
My Lords, when I first heard about this scheme, my initial reaction was to give the Government th...
My Lords, I think I am not the only Member on this side of the House who feels some embarrassment...
My Lords, my noble friend Lord King mentioned a degree of embarrassment at finding himself in thi...
My Lords, the noble Viscount has been a Minister for a short time only, but I think I speak for t...
I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. I reiterate that the Government would...
On this point of the valuation of shares, could my noble friend deal with the point that was made...
It remains the case that these are discussions that must take place between the employer and the ...
Can the Minister confirm that the Government have not felt able to move towards a clause on the i...
That is correct. I did not make any movement in that direction. I reiterate again to my noble fri...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for the skill and courtesy with which he has presented ...