Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 5. I declare my vice-presidency of the Local Government Asso...

My Lords, I shall also speak to both amendments, having signed both—which I suppose is by way of ...

My Lords, I should draw the attention of the House to various interests that I have around develo...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Taylor, said graciously that there has been a sea change in Govern...

My Lords, I want to speak very briefly to Amendment 1, so powerfully moved by the noble Lord, Lor...

My Lords, I apologise for not engaging with the Bill at an earlier stage. Other colleagues from t...

My Lords, I support Amendment 1. For the purposes of Report, I declare my interests as a farmer a...

My Lords, before I begin, I note that those of us discussing the housing Bill on the last day bef...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords all around the House for supporting Amendment 1 in my name...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

2: Clause 2, page 2, line 7, leave out “under”...

My Lords, I apologise for the delay—first day back and all that—but I will now move the amendment...

My Lords, I was unable to attend the Committee sitting in question, but I read the report careful...

My Lords, I wanted to say a few words, including in relation to Amendment 4 in my name, which is ...

I shall speak briefly to Amendment 10, but I add my support for Amendment 4 in the name of the no...

My Lords, as this is the first time I have spoken on Report, I draw the attention of the House to...

My Lords, as this is the first time I have spoken on Report, I remind the House of my declaration...

My Lords, the Opposition support the Government’s amendment here. I guess that a line has to be d...

On the government amendment regarding the minimum age of 23, I take the points made by my two nob...

Before my noble friend sits down, I apologise for not having reminded noble Lords of my interest ...

I would not like my noble friend to think that I did not agree with his point about aspirant youn...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

3: Clause 2, page 2, line 9, leave out “or min...

Moved by

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

6: Clause 3, page 2, line 38, aft...

In moving Amendment 6, I shall speak very strongly in support of the other amendments in this gro...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 8 and 9 and in doing so declare my interests as president o...

My Lords, I declare my interests in the register as a landowner, a vice-president of the Local Go...

My Lords, the amendments in this group deal with the need to broaden the concept that the Governm...

My Lords, I, too, should declare an interest as a member of the Leaders’ Committee of London Coun...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for their ...

I thank the Minister for her response, which was quite encouraging but does not completely satisf...

Moved by

Lord Kerslake

8: Clause 4, page 3, line 15, leave out subsection (1) and ins...

My Lords, I listened very carefully to the debate. I think we all agree on the ends here: more ho...

Moved by

Lord Kerslake

9: Clause 4, page 3, line 22, leave out subsection (3)

My Lords, this amendment is consequential to Amendment 8. It entirely follows on from that amendm...

Moved by

Lord Cameron of Dillington

11: Clause 4, page 3, line 29, at end insert—

My Lords, I regret that during the Recess I failed to meet the DCLG ministerial team to discuss t...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords, particularly the noble Lords, Lord Cameron and Lord Best, for the ...

If there are no other speakers—

I was going to say that it was possibly not worth me intervening at this point, other than to ech...

On behalf of the Opposition, I congratulate the noble Lord on apparently achieving his objective ...

I, too, thank the noble Lords, Lord Cameron and Lord Best, for having negotiated what looks like ...

I thank noble Lords for their support and congratulations, if that is the right word. I, too, loo...

Moved by

Lord Foster of Bath

12: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I beg to move this amendment standing in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Bakew...

My Lords, I have a good deal of sympathy with what the noble Lord has just said. In particular, I...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for the ame...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, for his support for the amendment. I ent...