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Infrastructure Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 18 June 2014, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Kramer. The answering member was Lord Adonis.
Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Grand Committee.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
754 cc837-900 
Session
2014-15
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Infrastructure Bill (HL) 2014-15
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Kramer | 754 cc837-842 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is four years since the general election, when the coalition partners made a pledge ...

Lord Adonis | 754 cc840-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for explaining the Bill so clearly and lucidly. On t...


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Lord Teverson | 754 cc844-850 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I very much welcome the Bill, which starts to lay a foundation for the most important i...

Lord Cameron of Dillington | 754 cc849-853 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interests as a farmer and landowner. This is an interesting Bill and it mu...

Bishop of Derby | 754 cc853-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I, too, welcome the Infrastructure Bill and its joined-up thinking. A number of noble L...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 754 cc854-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in response to the right reverend Prelate, I intend to say a few words about the commun...

Lord Whitty | 754 cc857-860 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, one might ask why we need another piece of legislation, given that we had an infrastruc...

Lord Oxburgh | 754 cc860-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a tough job to follow a speaker as well informed and experienced as the noble Lor...

Lord Berkeley | 754 cc863-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome many parts of the Bill, although it does rather seem as if it is sweeping up ...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 754 cc867-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, referred to the extremely good work of the Law Commissio...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 754 cc869-870 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Bill offers lots of opportunities and I certainly look forward to hearing more abou...

Viscount Hanworth | 754 cc870-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I wish to question the Minister about the intentions that underlie the parts of the Inf...

Earl of Lytton | 754 cc873-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the Bill, though in part I wonder why some of it is necessary. I declare inte...

Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 754 cc875-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like others on this side, I give a half-hearted welcome to the Bill. The opening by the...

Lord Purvis of Tweed | 754 cc878-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the briefing notes accompanying the Bill say that its purpose is to:

“Bolster inv...

Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 754 c879 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord seems to be proposing a new constitutional principle, whereby the Government say t...

Lord Purvis of Tweed | 754 cc879-881 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord obviously has more experience in this House than I have. I am a mere new Member. H...

Lord Judd | 754 cc881-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I want to tackle rather a different dimension to the Bill but, at the outset, I remind ...

Lord Skidelsky | 754 cc884-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, a Bill on infrastructure that is mainly to do with the rearrangement of Whitehall agenc...

Lord Bradshaw | 754 cc886-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have probably been the victim of more reorganisations than many of your Lordships. Al...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 754 cc888-892 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as others have described, this is a hotchpotch of a Bill with important chunks still mi...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 754 cc889-894 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this has been a most informative and splendid debate, although perhaps a little too lon...

Baroness Kramer | 754 cc894-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this evening really has been a testament to the range of knowledge in this House. I tha...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 754 c895 (Link to this contribution)

Before my noble friend leaves the point of procedure, perhaps she shares my disappointment that t...

Baroness Kramer | 754 cc895-6 (Link to this contribution)

I hope that my noble friend will encourage him to read my comments.

Moving on to more subst...

Lord Adonis | 754 c896 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister just referred to the “new company”. Many noble Lords in the debate asked whether we ...

Baroness Kramer | 754 cc896-7 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, it is the Government’s intention to set up just one company. It is standard template languag...

Lord Adonis | 754 c897 (Link to this contribution)

For the record, my Lords, I was not.

Baroness Kramer | 754 c897 (Link to this contribution)

A number of other noble Lords asked whether the body would go out and seek private finance. It co...

Lord Skidelsky | 754 c897 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Minister expect that the Government will in fact borrow for their trunk road programme?<...

Baroness Kramer | 754 c897 (Link to this contribution)

I am expecting that the Government will borrow to fund the SHC—I hesitate to use the words “in ex...

Lord Skidelsky | 754 c897 (Link to this contribution)

But it is anticipated that the Government will fund it by their own borrowing; is that right?

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Baroness Kramer | 754 cc897-8 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord is talking to someone who does not understand quite how the government books work,...

Lord Berkeley | 754 c898 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Baroness is absolutely right in what she says. On the other hand, one of the roles of t...

Baroness Kramer | 754 cc898-9 (Link to this contribution)

The monitoring will indeed be there. That is crucial because of the way in which the SHC is being...

Lord Adonis | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

While the noble Baroness wrestles with her papers, I invite her to respond to another big concern...

Baroness Kramer | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

I can tell the noble Lord only that there will be no such clauses in this Bill. I can provide tha...

Lord Adonis | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

Are there any discussions about privatisation of the Land Registry at a later date?

Baroness Kramer | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

There will be a response to the consultation, but it is not the intention of the Government to pr...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

If it is not the intention to seek privatisation by this mechanism, can the Minister confirm that...

Baroness Kramer | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly have no knowledge of any other intentions. As I said, there will be a proper response...

Lord Judd | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the Minister for taking up the issue of national parks, but I point out tha...

Baroness Kramer | 754 c899 (Link to this contribution)

I think at this stage I have to say that I will write to respond to questions. I apologise that I...

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