Neighbourhood Planning Bill

My Lords, I will say a few words which I think will help the House in the context of my noble fri...

My Lords, I should declare at the start of Report that I am a vice-president of the Local Governm...

My Lords, I apologise to the House for not having taken part in the Bill so far: every time I wan...

My Lords, I speak in support of the spirit of what my noble friend Lady Cumberlege is trying to a...

My Lords, I start my remarks by making my usual declarations. I refer the House to my register of...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on this amendment, particularly...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. I agree very much with my no...

Moved by

Baroness Cumberlege

2: Clause 3, page 5, line 7, at end insert—

“(3C) ...

My Lords, the amendments in this group concern the position of the examiner. An awful lot of anno...

My Lords, Amendment 2 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, concerns phasing condit...

My Lords, I was not going to speak in this debate, but having listened to the noble Baroness, hav...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for moving the amendment in the second group, and the noble Lor...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for his support throughout this. It seems to me t...

Moved by

Baroness Cumberlege

3: Schedule 1, page 43, leave out lines 24 to line 8 on ...

My Lords, the amendments in this group concern the examiner. The examiner comes into the scene qu...

My Lords, I want just to add a brief comment, but not to repeat what the noble Baroness, Lady Cum...

My Lords, I was not going to intervene but this is a very important conversation in relation to t...

My Lords, Amendments 3 and 4 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, carry on the sam...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in this part of the debate. I shall deal brie...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. I was interested in what the nob...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

5: Clause 7, page 8, line 14, at end insert—

“(1CA) The d...

My Lords, this is the second last amendment to Clause 7. It is striking that in a piece of legisl...

My Lords, I support Amendment 5, which contains an admirable list of the documents that a develop...

My Lords, perhaps I may interject on this group, although not in relation to Amendment 5. I am su...

Like my noble friend Lord Lansley, I will speak to Amendment 8, not to support it but as an oppor...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who participated in the debate on the amendments in this group....

Before my noble friend sits down, will he undertake to at least look at defining rather better th...

Before the noble Lord responds to that, could he also say a little about the reimbursement proces...

Following on from that point, on the basis that district councils are not getting paid for carryi...

My Lords, I cannot help but stand up at this moment. It seems to me that the solution to this who...

My Lords, in response to that last intervention, the answer is no. However, if my noble friend wo...

My Lords, there was a brief debate a moment ago about who would pay the bills where a county coun...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and I apologise to my noble friend Lord ...

We do not want the county council network deciding on arbitration.

My Lords, I am still recovering from the shock of the support of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, fo...

My Lords, it is very clear. The option is available at the moment for the Secretary of State to t...

That is an option of what might be called undemocratic centralism, which is not to be relished.