Building Safety Bill

The noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is taking part remotely. I invite her to speak.

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

I ...

My Lords, I was not expecting to speak after the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, so I will not comm...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 4. In doing so, I thank the noble Lords who have put their na...

My Lords, as this is the first time that I have spoken at this stage of the Bill, I declare my in...

My Lords, I declare my interests: I am the president of the Local Government Association and, whe...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow on from what the noble Baroness has outlined. I stron...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster, for his clear introduction to his amendment...

My Lords, I was not expecting to be in what the Romans called a frigidarium for this stage of the...

Another problem at Worcester Park might have been the failure to implement the building regulatio...

I think we need to ensure the competence of enforcement and that it works, and the competence of ...

Oh!

I am the Minister with responsibility for fire as well as for building safety, and I will ensure ...

My Lords, we are at a very early stage of consideration in Committee of this Bill, but I have to ...

Moved by

Lord Stunell

3: Clause 3, page 2, line 22, at end insert—

“(3A) In exe...

My Lords, I apologise to noble Lords; my usually invisible hearing disability got in the way ther...

The noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, wishes to take part remotely. I now invite the noble Baroness t...

My Lords, I support both amendments in this group so helpfully introduced by my noble friend Lord...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 135 in my name, which was referred to a moment ago by my nobl...

My Lords, I will look briefly first at Amendment 3 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Stunell. A...

My Lords, I apologise: I was not here at the beginning of Committee due to flooding on the track....

My Lords, I want to say a few words on PDR. It has been well exercised. First, I should declare m...

My Lords, I think I should start by dealing with something that probably relates to the previous ...

Can the Minister give us clarification on Amendment 135? He said that new homes and buildings are...

I thank the noble Lord for giving me that get-out. He is absolutely right that this is a complica...

Permitted development rights are not about just the conversion of offices into homes. Where I liv...

I will combine the letter for the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock....

My Lords, we have had an interesting debate. It might be summarised by the Minister saying, “Don’...

Moved by

Lord Stunell

5: Clause 4, page 3, line 19, at end insert—

“(3A) In any...

My Lords, I will try to do a little better than last time, when I completely ignored my noble fri...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, will be participating remotely, and I invite her to s...

My Lords, just before I speak to the two amendments in this group, I ask the Minister whether I m...

My Lords, I will just say how important these amendments are. Although they are brief and innocuo...

My Lords, I speak very briefly to Amendments 5 and 10 in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Stunel...

I thank the noble Lord and the noble Baroness for raising this important matter. I am afraid that...

I thank the Minister for her reply and shall await the letters with the greatest interest. A cent...

Moved by

Lord Stunell

6: Clause 5, page 3, line 26, at end insert—

“(2) The reg...

With Amendment 6, we are in completely different territory. Second Reading produced many concerns...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is participating remotely, and I invite her to speak ...

My Lords, I shall speak specifically to Amendment 6 but I endorse the others, for reasons that wi...

Briefly, I support the idea of review clauses and of learning from mistakes. Obviously, I have no...

My Lords, Amendment 129 in my name proposes to add a short new clause to the Climate Change Act 2...

My Lords, Amendments 6 and 149 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Stunell, draw attention to tim...

My Lords, we come to the—I am sorry, it is the turn of the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock.

The Minister is far too eager.

During the course of the debate on this group of amendments,...

My Lords, I am getting used to the free-wheeling nature of these debates. I apologise that I stoo...

I have a question about flooding in London. I am sure the noble Lord is aware of an article in th...

My Lords, I have some experience of this, having led the council that includes Shepherd’s Bush an...

My Lords, I listened carefully to what the Minister had to say. Here we are, on the first day in ...

Moved by

Lord Stunell

7: Clause 9, page 4, line 20, at end insert “(and any other fun...

My Lords, this amendment relates to the operation of the building advisory committee itself and o...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Stunell, has eloquently outlined Amendment 7 and Clause 12 to the ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Stunell and Lord Khan, for raising these important points...

My Lords, I slightly got the impression that I might even have got a draw on one of those, and I ...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, and I apologise for interrupting. I merely wish to apologis...

Before concluding, can I say that the Minister, if I can speak on his behalf, was very sad to hav...