Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, as this is my first proper intervention in today's proceedings, notwithstanding the que...

Also, not very good for the Minister.

I agree entirely. It is not good for the Minister or indeed for all Members of your Lordships’ Ho...

My Lords, Amendment 83, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Kennedy and Lord Beecham, would require a...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that explanation, which was very helpful. I will happily withd...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

84: Clause 117, page 54, line 18, leave out “as an alternative”...

My Lords, I suspect that this will be another very brief discussion. Schedule 9 amends the Housin...

My Lords, Amendment 84, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Kennedy and Lord Beecham, would make a ch...

The Minister referred to reasonable fines. What scale of fines are we talking about here?

I do not have details of the fines, but I shall be more than happy to write to the noble Lord wit...

Could the Minister comment on whether this would cover the instances that I have spoken about of ...

I was answering the points raised by noble Lords, and the main point is that we think it dispropo...

The Minister says that it is up to £30,000. There has been an interesting series of programmes re...

I wanted to expand on my previous answer to say that prosecution fines are unlimited civil penalt...

Perhaps I can pursue this a little further. How many people have actually been charged, nationall...

I can certainly offer a reply to the noble Lord. I hope that with the explanation that I have giv...

My Lords, I confess that I am not at all satisfied with the Minister’s reply. We are seeing a cha...

Moved by

Baroness Gardner of Parkes

84A: After Clause 118, insert the following new C...

My Lords, my commercial interest is on the register. I have also owned a flat for 29 years, which...

My Lords, the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner of Parkes, is excellent. As ...

On Amendment 84B, what would happen? It talks about the information being made available to membe...

My Lords, are there not already regulations about the overcrowding of buildings? I am sure that t...

If there are such regulations in place, of which I am totally unaware, how many prosecutions have...

My Lords, there are regulations about all these things. There are fire regulations, regulations o...

Is there not great irony in the fact that, to get around this problem, we need more bedrooms? In ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Gardner of Parkes for her amendments, which seek to addres...

Can the Minister put it on record that, when people buy their leases and turn them into a share o...

I note the noble Lord’s point but point out that the lease is a matter between the leaseholder an...

My Lords, I thank those who have contributed to this debate, but I do not think that anyone has a...

The holder of the freehold to whom those leases are transferred must comply with the original lea...

I thank the noble Lord for that remark. I do not want to prolong the debate on this but I am cert...

On that very point, the noble Viscount, Lord Younger, said that councils can recover their expens...

As we are not getting a reply on that point, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

84BA: After Clause 122, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 84BA, which is in my name, and to Amendment 84G. These are, ...

I shall be very brief: this amendment answers many of the points that I have raised and I strongl...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, has raised one of the legacy issues derived from...

My Lords, I would like to bring a little experience to this debate. I was involved in an enfranch...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 84D, which has been put in this group. I have no problem with...

My Lords—

I thank the noble Viscount for giving way. I entirely endorse the amendments in the name of the n...

Amendment 84E is in a later group.

I am so sorry, I thought it was in this group. Has it been degrouped?

Perhaps I could clarify for the noble Lord that we are speaking to Amendments 84BA, 84D and 84G.<...

I apologise to the Committee. The group that I have includes the noble Baroness’s amendments. But...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and my noble friend Lord Young for their amendments. I wel...

Going by my own experience, if a statutory requirement was placed on the management company to fo...

That is a possibility, and I will bring that into the considerations that we will undertake prior...

I am very grateful to the Minister for his answer, but in the exception mentioned—when properties...

I would not put it in quite that way. There are no plans to make changes, but the noble Lord will...

My Lords, I am grateful to everybody who took part in this debate. In response to the noble Lord,...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

84C: After Clause 124, insert the following ...

My Lords, Amendment 84C is about client money protection. It would require every letting agent to...

My Lords, I support the amendment, to which my name is attached. I declare my interest as chairma...

My Lords, I support the amendment in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, the noble Lord...

My Lords, it gives me considerable pleasure to be responding to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, ...

What is the Government’s logic? The Minster has said how good money protection schemes are, how e...

I appreciate that the noble Lord feels strongly about this, but as explained earlier, at the mome...

The Minister is suggesting that the introduction of measures proposed in this amendment would inc...

Yes, indeed. I shall make two points arising from the noble Lord’s question. We believe that the ...

My Lords, I thank the government Front Bench for allowing us to take this amendment at this stage...