Infrastructure Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is four years since the general election, when the coalition partners made a pledge ...
My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for explaining the Bill so clearly and lucidly. On t...
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My Lords, I very much welcome the Bill, which starts to lay a foundation for the most important i...
My Lords, I declare my interests as a farmer and landowner. This is an interesting Bill and it mu...
My Lords, I, too, welcome the Infrastructure Bill and its joined-up thinking. A number of noble L...
My Lords, in response to the right reverend Prelate, I intend to say a few words about the commun...
My Lords, one might ask why we need another piece of legislation, given that we had an infrastruc...
My Lords, it is a tough job to follow a speaker as well informed and experienced as the noble Lor...
My Lords, I welcome many parts of the Bill, although it does rather seem as if it is sweeping up ...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, referred to the extremely good work of the Law Commissio...
My Lords, the Bill offers lots of opportunities and I certainly look forward to hearing more abou...
My Lords, I wish to question the Minister about the intentions that underlie the parts of the Inf...
My Lords, I welcome the Bill, though in part I wonder why some of it is necessary. I declare inte...
My Lords, like others on this side, I give a half-hearted welcome to the Bill. The opening by the...
My Lords, the briefing notes accompanying the Bill say that its purpose is to:
“Bolster inv...
The noble Lord seems to be proposing a new constitutional principle, whereby the Government say t...
The noble Lord obviously has more experience in this House than I have. I am a mere new Member. H...
My Lords, I want to tackle rather a different dimension to the Bill but, at the outset, I remind ...
My Lords, a Bill on infrastructure that is mainly to do with the rearrangement of Whitehall agenc...
My Lords, I have probably been the victim of more reorganisations than many of your Lordships. Al...
My Lords, as others have described, this is a hotchpotch of a Bill with important chunks still mi...
My Lords, this has been a most informative and splendid debate, although perhaps a little too lon...
My Lords, this evening really has been a testament to the range of knowledge in this House. I tha...
Before my noble friend leaves the point of procedure, perhaps she shares my disappointment that t...
I hope that my noble friend will encourage him to read my comments.
Moving on to more subst...
The Minister just referred to the “new company”. Many noble Lords in the debate asked whether we ...
Yes, it is the Government’s intention to set up just one company. It is standard template languag...
For the record, my Lords, I was not.
A number of other noble Lords asked whether the body would go out and seek private finance. It co...
Does the Minister expect that the Government will in fact borrow for their trunk road programme?<...
I am expecting that the Government will borrow to fund the SHC—I hesitate to use the words “in ex...
But it is anticipated that the Government will fund it by their own borrowing; is that right?
...The noble Lord is talking to someone who does not understand quite how the government books work,...
The noble Baroness is absolutely right in what she says. On the other hand, one of the roles of t...
The monitoring will indeed be there. That is crucial because of the way in which the SHC is being...
While the noble Baroness wrestles with her papers, I invite her to respond to another big concern...
I can tell the noble Lord only that there will be no such clauses in this Bill. I can provide tha...
Are there any discussions about privatisation of the Land Registry at a later date?
There will be a response to the consultation, but it is not the intention of the Government to pr...
If it is not the intention to seek privatisation by this mechanism, can the Minister confirm that...
I certainly have no knowledge of any other intentions. As I said, there will be a proper response...
I am very grateful to the Minister for taking up the issue of national parks, but I point out tha...
I think at this stage I have to say that I will write to respond to questions. I apologise that I...