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Infrastructure Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Maddock (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 5 November 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Infrastructure Bill [HL].

My Lords, I have a great deal of sympathy with the comments of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans. I spoke on these issues in Committee. As has been said by both previous speakers, we managed to get such agreement across the building sector and all the organisations that care about these issues as to what the standard would be. When we came in as a coalition Government,

we stuck to that. For some reason, we changed our minds. I would really like the Minister to explain what made us question the agreements we had and the standards we had wanted.

I know that two of my honourable friends who have been Liberal Democrat Ministers in the department have pushed to row back from where we were going, and we have now gone forwards again. However, we have not managed to get any farther. We are owned an explanation from the Minister tonight of why we have ended up in this position when we had such a good agreement back in 2010.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
756 cc1705-6 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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