Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 60, to which the noble Lord has just referred and said he wi...

I shall respond briefly to the noble Baroness. The point I made was that if I was living in that ...

My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy for what the noble Lord, Lord Porter, said, but what we have b...

I largely agree with the noble Baroness: it is not right that local authorities are funding ineff...

The noble Lord, Lord Porter, has not listened to what I said. Not one word did I say in oppositio...

Can we come back to the amendment for moment? It is on how the housing association spends the mon...

The problem with that is that you end up with a borough entirely of owner-occupied houses. In oth...

This is what ordinary people who do not have access to social housing have to do. If they have a ...

That means that everybody is excluded from certain parts of the city; we lose a mix. I do not thi...

It is not quite as brutal as the noble Lord says: there is already quite a mix in London. There i...

My Lords, I will try to be brief, given the hour. Very grave concern has already been expressed a...

My Lords, I have some difficulty with all these amendments. I was not going to speak because it e...

In London as a whole, but not in the same borough.

I see. If that is the case, and they are not in the same borough, it does not comply with the spi...

My Lords, a few minutes ago, the noble Lord, Lord Porter, began to introduce a debate about the b...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Foster, has referred to the many attempts over the years to introd...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, for voicing Lib Dem support and enthusiasm...

Does the noble Baroness think it is regrettable that if this carries on, we will lose social hous...

My Lords, we have been through the various types of social housing products that are available fo...

The noble Baroness mentioned the figures for starts. Does she have the figures for where those st...

I do not know by borough where those starts are but will, if I can, provide the noble Lord with t...

The Minister emphasised, perfectly sensibly I think, that housing associations should have some d...

My Lords, affordable rent for low-cost houses is certainly a lot cheaper than market rents, but I...

I am very grateful that the Minister has agreed to look at that issue. She will be aware that the...

That is the point that I am going to take away and confirm with the noble Baroness. However, I am...

Perhaps the Minister could help me out on this. Great faith is being placed in housing associatio...

The noble Lord is right: in different parts of the country, there will be entirely different need...

That is helpful, but in so far as they do not fully cover the position, the residual risk and obl...

There was a Question yesterday about homelessness. There are a number of government grants, some ...

On the basis of our discussion before the dinner break, we identified that councils were picking ...

I would expect councils to work with the Government, housing associations and through the plannin...

I do not know how the Minister can say that when more than 30% of private rented sector accommoda...

I just made the point that 84% of tenants are satisfied with their accommodation. I do not know w...

It is probably 31% rather than 30%. I think it is from the house condition survey.

I thank the noble Baroness for that statistic. One of the points that we made back in the group o...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate. It highlighted the p...

Talking about looking forward to information, last week, we were promised some statistical inform...

My Lords, I did promise the noble Lord information on starter homes. I will be bringing it forwar...

With that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Beecham

58: Clause 62, page 28, line 13, at end insert—

“(4) Gran...

My Lords, I should confess that this amendment is not well drafted—I blame my noble friend for th...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, for clarifying the position that explain...

My Lords, I am sympathetic to the intent of my noble friend’s amendment although, like him, I hav...

My Lords, there will be abuse, and the incentives are very substantial. I have some figures on wh...

I will ask two questions. To go back to the same principle, what difference does it make whether ...

The issue is that the taxpayer has paid a 20% discount for that to happen.

On top of that, the taxpayer will then go on, in appropriate circumstances, to pay the housing be...

And on top of that, some people object to the fact that people can sell in London a council flat—...

If people are moving in, paying the private rent and relying on housing benefit, that is a cost t...

My Lords, I shall be brief because the hour is late. I do not want to be here at midnight because...

My Lords, I shall speak to what I think is the amendment of the noble Lords, Lord Beecham and Lor...

Can the Minister help me out? She said that the solution to stopping properties being turned into...

My Lords, I was referring to people who bought homes as second properties. In other words, I thin...

I accept that, but I thought the Minister was offering that as a solution to the problem that Ame...

I was in a round-about way, but I do not think that the noble Lord accepts that. In a round-about...

My Lords, when the Minister has a chance—perhaps over the weekend—to look at the “Dispatches” pro...

I certainly look forward to watching that programme, as the noble Baroness suggests.

My Lords, I think that the Minister overlooks the impact of allowing these properties to be re-le...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment 59ZA, which proposes a new clause after Clause 63. We n...

Could the noble Lord explain the theology of the public financing of his proposal? I think he sai...

The noble Lord’s interpretation is correct. Because there is a third-party asset against the expe...

My Lords, I support the amendment that the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, put to us and commend to th...

My Lords, I also congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, because it is possible that he has f...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, on his ingeni...

Only if the Government adopt it.

Well, yes—it might bring it to a rapid end. It does appear to be a very useful way forward. I als...

My Lords, if I can just explain, this is from the National Audit Office report. Part of what the ...

Am I wrong about the numbers? I thought the noble Lord referred to a figure of 5,000 cited by the...

The key point I am making is contained in the following sentence, which I will read out again: