Infrastructure Bill [HL]

My Lords, my noble friend will recollect that I raised this point at Second Reading on 18 June at...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, on her extended role during the course ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to stand here in the place of my noble friend Lady Stowell. I join the...

I perhaps should have mentioned earlier that shortly before coming to the Committee, I had an urg...

The noble Lord, Lord Jenkin of Roding, makes clear that there are complexities in all this. We do...

Will the Minister expand on what she said because I am not quite following? I can see that there ...

I say to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, that I will go back to the department and ask whether we ...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Jenkin and, in absentia, the noble Lord, Lord Bes...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

84A: Clause 21, page 22, line 21, at end insert “or l...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment and it has been suggested to us by the Local Government Ass...

My Lords, in some ways the north-west is ahead of the game in handing over land to the HCA. When ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, said that this had been introduced as a probing amendmen...

My Lords, I was relieved to hear the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, say that this was a probing amend...

My Lords, that is some intimidating experience from quite a number of your Lordships, which I can...

My Lords, I am grateful for that response; frankly, it is more generous than I had anticipated. I...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

85B: Clause 21, page 22, line 24, at end insert “prov...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 86, 87 and 88, while my noble friend Lady Royall will ...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 89. I apologise for not having spoken at Second Reading bu...

My Lords, an interest in forestry has brought me along today. I am hugely grateful to the noble B...

My Lords, first, I am sure that no discourtesy was intended to the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, o...

I apologise for intervening on the Minister but I wonder if we can clear that up, as it is before...

I think that a better way to express it is that where they have been overridden by the HCA, the G...

I am grateful; that is helpful. It is what I understood the position to be likely to be—that thir...

That was the issue at dispute. My understanding is that they cannot create. I am now looking for ...

I am grateful to the Minister for that detailed response. I accept that there are some points on ...

Perhaps I might make a small correction for the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, because I want to be a...

I am grateful and perhaps we could have some follow-up on that as well, if necessary. I also acce...

I apologise for bobbing up constantly but the noble Lord will understand that I am trying to catc...

We need to think about that. Is it the Minister for the DCLG in all cases, wherever the land was ...

That is the understanding that has just been passed to me.

I am grateful for that. It is news to me but it is helpful to have it. I should like to press aga...

My Lords, I feel that at this point we have given real clarity on this issue. As I say, this mech...

My Lords, we have reached the stage where it is necessary to withdraw the amendment but I cannot ...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

90: Clause 21, page 24, line 4, leave out paragraphs ...

My Lords, this is a straightforward amendment that would require the regulations specifying publi...

My Lords, I gather from general conversation that there are many arm’s-length bodies—certainly se...

My Lords, I think I am convinced. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

91A: Clause 22, page 24, line 24, leave out “(8)” and insert...

My Lords, maximising the release of surplus public sector land is critical to supporting the Gove...

My Lords, I think that I am happy with this. Do I understand that it relates just to dealing with...

My Lords, while my noble friend is contemplating the answer to that, she wrote to me about this i...

My Lords, I am looking to make sure that I have some advice on this. However, it is my understand...

I am grateful to the Minister for her explanation. I think that I have got it but I want to make ...

Perhaps I might write to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, on that issue because I think that I am g...

I am full of admiration for the way that my noble friend is dealing with this, having had to come...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

91B: Clause 22, page 24, line 38, at end insert—

“(8A)...

My Lords, there will be a subsequent debate in respect of Clause 24 so I will speak generally to ...

My Lords, I confess to relative ignorance on the subject of the Land Registry, so I have been try...

My Lords, my noble friend will remember that at Second Reading I raised rather similar anxieties ...

My Lords, I shall reply first to the comment from my noble friend Lord Jenkin of Roding that the ...

I apologise; did the Minister say that it was 38 days for Camden?

Yes.

Was that the local land charge search or the CON29 search?

My understanding is that it is the local land charge search, not the CON29 search, but we have ha...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I am disappointed but not surprised by the posit...

I feel very comfortable in replying that the Government’s response on this topic makes it clear t...

I am grateful for that. I think that I heard the words “during this Parliament” and I understand ...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

92: Schedule 4, page 65, line 24, after “5” insert “or 6 or ...

My Lords, there are two minor and technical amendments to paragraph 3 of Schedule 4. These are to...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

93: Schedule 4, page 65, line 36, at end insert “;

“re...

My Lords, we have had a substantive debate on the Government’s proposals for the Land Registry an...

My Lords, Clause 24 gives wider powers to the Land Registry to enable it to play a greater role i...

I thank the Minister for her reply but perhaps I may just be clear. Does she consider that what i...

Is this a question about whether we are intending to change the commercial model of the Land Regi...

I thank the Minister for that. I do not want to make a meal of this but perhaps I may ask for a f...

Perhaps I can be clear. The whole issue of the model, by which I assume the noble Lord means owne...

I take the model to be in the sense of not only the corporate structure but the separation of the...

I have an assurance that they are not linked.

My Lords, I think that this may be a convenient time for the Committee to adjourn.