Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I welcome the chance to debate this extremely important and complex Bill and draw your ...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the opportunity to hear the maiden speeches of the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, it is appropriate that Second Reading of this Bill is sandwiched between the two days o...

My Lords, the opening assertion of the impact statement on the Bill states:

“The public nee...

When I mentioned to my noble friends that I was excited but concerned about my maiden speech, fin...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on an excellent maiden speech. It is a pleasure to fo...

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting but it might be helpful for the House to be reminded that ...

My Lords, I start by declaring an interest as a former chairman of the Local Government Associati...

My Lords, I start by declaring my interest as a private landlord. I congratulate the noble Barone...

My Lords, the Bill seeks to accelerate housing growth via home ownership solutions. The emphasis ...

My Lords, as a chartered surveyor, I have chosen to make my maiden speech on this Bill today, and...

My Lords, the great pleasure of following the noble Lord, Lord Thurlow, and welcoming him warmly ...

My Lords, I do not profess any particular expertise in this issue but nevertheless I have an inte...

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

My Lords, I, too, add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, and the noble Lor...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to join in this debate, which even at this stage is demonstrating that...

My Lords, six minutes is barely time to scratch the surface of this Bill. It is certainly not eno...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie of Luton. I wish to spe...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a farmer, a landowner and a chartered surveyor.

I congra...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, and the noble Lord, Lord Thurl...

My Lords, I think we are all in agreement about the importance of housing, and particularly affor...

My Lords, in the limited time available in this debate, I would like to speak from the perspectiv...

My Lords, in contributing to this debate, first, I state that I am chief executive of Turning Poi...

My Lords, I preface my brief remarks by declaring an interest as director of a property developme...

My Lords, the housing crisis, our badly stretched planning capacity and the desperate plight of t...

Over the past decade, house prices in London have doubled, while private rents have increased by ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as leader of a London borough council, but one that, after a larg...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the group board of the Orbit housing association. We ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Thurlow, and my noble friend Lady Thornhill on two ...

My Lords, at the Bill’s next stages I look forward to joining debates on starter homes, self-buil...

My Lords, first, I apologise to my noble friend the Minister for missing the first moments of her...

My Lords, I realise that it is rather unconventional for an opposition Chief Whip to speak in a l...

My Lords, shortage of housing is largely due to the slowness of developers in bringing land into ...

My Lords, perhaps I should start by declaring a non-party interest. I live in a rented house in n...

My Lords, the Housing and Planning Bill is a most ill-conceived piece of legislation. It will do ...

My Lords, I will first declare some interests in that I am a landlord of a single premises. I hop...

My Lords, this is a monster of a Bill and I have a fair clutch of interests to declare, as have o...

My Lords, I feel I have gone back in time to Watford. When I first left the Navy I went to work i...

My Lords, I cannot claim expertise in housing, but I was so appalled by the “pay to stay” and los...

My Lords, I should first like to congratulate my noble friend Lady Thornhill on her maiden speech...

My Lords, I declare my interest as listed in the register. It is not really surprising that, in t...

My Lords, I declare my interest which is in the register. At this stage, there is not much more t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her calm and clear exposition of the Bill. For more than 10 ye...

My Lords, when you find you are the last speaker on the Back-Bench side, the Whips always assure ...

My Lords, I apologise to the House and to the Minister for my failure to put my name down in a ti...

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging and incisive Second Reading debate. It has been valuable t...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the two maiden speakers tonight, the noble L...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this Second Reading debate. I realise th...

Could I be clear? The Minister said that the Government are fully compensating the housing associ...

I understand that it is the Government who will fully compensate the housing associations.

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