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Growth and Infrastructure Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 22 April 2013, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Hanham and Viscount Younger of Leckie.
Lords consideration of Commons reasons. Lords amendment 7 not insisted on and Commons amendments 7B and 7C in lieu were agreed to. Lords amendment 25 insisted on, and agreed to on division (260 to 191). Committee appointed to propose a reason for insisting on Lords Amendment 25. Reason agreed to, and the Bill was returned to the Commons with a reason.
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
744 
Session
2012-13
Legislative stage
Lords amendments and Commons amendments
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Hanham | 744 cc1229-1230 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

That this House do not insist on its Amendment 7, to which t...

Baroness Hanham | 744 cc1230-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, at Third Reading this House made an amendment to provide local authorities with further...


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Lord McKenzie of Luton | 744 c1232 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

As an amendment to Motion A, leave out from “House” t...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 744 cc1232-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I should explain that we tabled this Motion, which insists on the position originally t...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 744 c1235 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I noticed that many of the views expressed by the spokesman for the Opposition agreed w...

Lord Shipley | 744 cc1235-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I should declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I...

Lord Deben | 744 cc1237-8 (Link to this contribution)

I rise only because my noble friend, like my right honourable friend, has drawn into consultation...

Lord Cormack | 744 cc1238-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I agree entirely with what my noble friend Lord Deben says about conservation areas. I ...

Lord Beecham | 744 c1239 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I join others in welcoming the Government’s partial, if deathbed, conversion to doing s...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 744 c1239 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, very briefly, in my 26 years as legal eagle on the “Jimmy Young Show” on Radio 2, there...

Lord True | 744 cc1239-1242 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in rising, I feel rather like the ancient prophetess who went to see King Tarquin with ...

Earl of Lytton | 744 cc1242-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will not detain the House for long. My interest as a practising chartered surveyor in...

Baroness Hanham | 744 cc1244-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have spoken, particularly my noble friend Lord True, for th...

Lord Cormack | 744 c1246 (Link to this contribution)

My noble friend has not yet reached this point, but will this also include the time that will be ...

Baroness Hanham | 744 cc1246-7 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord has jumped in ahead of me: no. Planning permission currently has no timescale of h...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 744 c1247 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I start by thanking the Minister for dealing extensively with the queries that were rai...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1247 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

That this House do not insist on its Amendment 25...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 cc1248-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful for the full and wide-ranging debate that has taken place during our cons...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 744 c1249 (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way at this stage. However, he has rattled through ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1249 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. This currently remains an entirely voluntary procedu...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 744 c1249 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry; it is very unusual to intervene twice. However, where is the option? The Minister has...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1249 (Link to this contribution)

I am not sure I entirely understand where the noble Lord is coming from. If a jobseeker is seekin...

Lord Monks | 744 c1249 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Is he therefore confirming in that reply ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1249 (Link to this contribution)

The answer is that if an employer wants to recruit an employee shareholder, he or she will decide...

Lord Monks | 744 c1250 (Link to this contribution)

My apologies for coming in again. What is voluntary about that for the jobseeker in those circums...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1250 (Link to this contribution)

It remains the case that an employee looking for a position can decide for himself or herself whe...

Lord Myners | 744 c1250 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister says that he does not expect employees to enter into such contracts without careful ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1251 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord makes a good point. The matter of what types of shares and what shares are offered...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 744 c1251 (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to my noble friend. When he says that the valuation and the convertibility of ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1251 (Link to this contribution)

The matter of advice is very much applicable to settlement or compromise agreements, as my noble ...

Lord Myners | 744 c1251 (Link to this contribution)

I think the Minister has confirmed—but perhaps he could avoid any doubt about this—that it would ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1251 (Link to this contribution)

I disagree entirely with the noble Lord because the employee shareholder will decide for himself....

Lord Adonis | 744 cc1251-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, could the noble Viscount explain to us how jobseekers, who may have no resources whatev...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I can answer that. However, the issues may not be that complex. It depends entirely on the a...

Lord Adonis | 744 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

How do these jobseekers pay for this advice? Does the noble Viscount have a special fund which wi...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

To clarify what I said to my noble friend Lord Forsyth a minute ago, legal advice is clearly avai...

Lord Deben | 744 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

I wonder whether I can help my noble friend. When my companies give shares to our employees, not ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

I very much note my noble friend’s point. He has experience in this field. I say again that some ...

Lord Myners | 744 c1252 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister has just said that legal advice is available for settlement and compromise agreement...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1253 (Link to this contribution)

I can only reiterate that it entirely depends on the role on offer, the type of company and the t...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 744 c1253 (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to my noble friend for giving way and I shall try not to interrupt him again. ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 cc1253-4 (Link to this contribution)

I know of many employee contracts—not those for an employee shareholder—where serious advice is r...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1254 (Link to this contribution)

I hope that I may be allowed to finish. I urge the House to keep this innovative proposal as part...

Lord Pannick | 744 c1254 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Pannick

As an amendment to Motion B, leave out from “House” to end and ...

Lord Pannick | 744 cc1254-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, on 20 March, your Lordships’ House voted by a majority of 54 to exclude Clause 27 from ...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 744 cc1256-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I hesitate to follow the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, who has set out very clearly and per...

Lord Flight | 744 cc1258-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I cannot match the advocacy of either the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, or the noble Lord, ...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 744 c1260 (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to my noble friend. I agree with his point about the tax allowance. If someone...

Lord Flight | 744 c1260 (Link to this contribution)

That is the very point that I made when we last debated the issue in this House. That is why I th...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 744 c1260 (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to my noble friend. Does that not then mean that the value of the employment r...

Lord Flight | 744 c1260 (Link to this contribution)

First of all, it depends on what is on offer. It is broadly for the company to decide the amount ...

Lord Monks | 744 cc1260-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, unfortunately, I was unable to be present at Report stage, but I was struck when I read...

Baroness Warnock | 744 cc1261-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, noble Lords may be somewhat surprised that I speak on this issue, but it so happens tha...

Lord Deben | 744 cc1262-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, very kindly reminded the House of my words at an earlier ...

Lord Woolf | 744 c1263 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise for interrupting and thank the noble Lord for giving way. However, does not everythin...

Lord Deben | 744 c1263 (Link to this contribution)

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, puts me in the most difficult of positions. I have spent ...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 744 c1264 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, there are already in existence what I suppose you could call partnership schemes, where...

Baroness Brinton | 744 cc1264-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I want to start by thanking the Government for the concession on jobseeker’s allowance ...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 744 c1266 (Link to this contribution)

Before the noble Baroness sits down, I wonder if she could help us with the question that the nob...

Baroness Brinton | 744 c1266 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I believe that is well above my pay grade.

Lord Bilimoria | 744 cc1266-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, when I first heard about this scheme, my initial reaction was to give the Government th...

Lord King of Bridgwater | 744 cc1267-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think I am not the only Member on this side of the House who feels some embarrassment...

Baroness Wheatcroft | 744 cc1268-1270 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my noble friend Lord King mentioned a degree of embarrassment at finding himself in thi...

Lord Adonis | 744 cc1270-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Viscount has been a Minister for a short time only, but I think I speak for t...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 cc1273-5 (Link to this contribution)

I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. I reiterate that the Government would...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 744 c1275 (Link to this contribution)

On this point of the valuation of shares, could my noble friend deal with the point that was made...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 cc1275-6 (Link to this contribution)

It remains the case that these are discussions that must take place between the employer and the ...

Lord King of Bridgwater | 744 c1277 (Link to this contribution)

Can the Minister confirm that the Government have not felt able to move towards a clause on the i...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 744 c1277 (Link to this contribution)

That is correct. I did not make any movement in that direction. I reiterate again to my noble fri...

Lord Pannick | 744 c1277 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for the skill and courtesy with which he has presented ...

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