Building Safety Bill

My Lords, I start by declaring my interests as they appear in the register. I am the honorary pre...

My Lords, my contribution to this debate relates to the new homes ombudsman, the scheme that will...

My Lords, I welcome today’s debate, and I thank my noble friend the Minister for his commitment t...

My Lords, I am pleased to join others in welcoming the Building Safety Bill to the upper House an...

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

My Lords, I welcome the Building Safety Bill, and its provisions to implement the recommendations...

My Lords, like others, I welcome the introduction of this Bill, which will help restore confidenc...

My Lords, I agree very strongly with what the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, said. First, I r...

My Lords, like other noble Lords, including the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, I commend the Bill and ...

My Lords, by the end of the 19th century, there had been a significant evolution in the quality o...

Hear hear!

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My Lords, I count it a great privilege to speak following the valedictory speech of my right reve...

My Lords, I declare my interest as recorded in the register.

I am delighted to be making a ...

My Lords, Grenfell was, and still is, a safety scandal and a tragedy. The subsequent wrangling as...

My Lords, I declare my interest as set out in the register. I congratulate the Minister on his pa...

My Lords, I also warmly welcome this Bill and the Minister’s introductory words. I am also very g...

My Lords, it has been my privilege to be involved in public and private housing for over 50 years...

My Lords, I begin by again offering my condolences to the friends and family of those who died in...

My Lords, I believe I can make this a full cross-House welcome for the Bill—rather a rare occurre...

My Lords, I too welcome the Bill. I say to the Minister opposite that if he takes on board all th...

It would be a very long one.

That is okay, we have the time.

I want to illustrate a number of issues by bringing the act...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the Bill. I am not a housing expert, but I have been motivated to speak...

My Lords, I feel privileged to follow that speech but also somewhat at sea, so I will default to ...

My Lords, all these wonderful speeches are a hard act to follow. I declare that I am a fellow of ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure, though daunting, to follow the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, who has been ...

My Lords, the next speaker, the noble Baroness, Lady Harris of Richmond, is taking part remotely....

My Lords, never again must we be faced with the shocking sight of a tower-block of flats being co...

My Lords, I declare conflicts of interest in owning two buy-to-let flats in London and as a membe...

My Lords, first, I declare a personal interest as a leaseholder of a flat near here, which will q...

Oh!

Ahem. We will also need some Henry VIII clauses to make those changes to existing Acts of Parliam...

My Lords, this Bill was born out of a disaster—one that saw many people killed and injured in the...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate on a Bill that is widely supported across the House. ...

My Lords, it is not normal for the Opposition Chief Whip to respond to a Second Reading debate, b...

My Lords, I really enjoy the tutorials I get from the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy. I shall do my bes...

Oh!

I am only joking; that is not fair.

It was the 1970s.

The 1970s, okay. One of the things it taught you was to really distil your arguments down and to ...