Building Safety Bill
Thursday, 20 January 2022
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House of Lords
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
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Moved by
Lord Blencathra
13: Clause 38, page 39, leave out lines 21 to 23
My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 13 and to speak to Amendments 14 and 15 standing in my name. F...
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In the absence of others, I rise to speak to Amendments 94A, 94B and 97A, which seek to strengthe...
My Lords, we were waiting for the government Minister to introduce his amendments, so that we can...
Sorry, my Lords, I am just learning as we go, as they say. I really admire this House because, ob...
Could the Minister slow down a little? I do not know where I am any more. Could he start that gro...
I am sorry; I will slow down. Amendment 23 is a drafting change to Clause 52 and should be read a...
After that rapid run-through of about 40 amendments in this group, I shall respond to all of them...
My Lords, I will just pick up on one or two things. Before I do so, hearing other people’s declar...
My Lords, it has been a very interesting debate so far. I do not intend to prolong it at all but,...
My Lords, this debate has been really interesting and slightly longer than I was expecting, so it...
Forgive me butting in at the end but before the Minister responds, I thought that I should make a...
My Lords, I had not thought that this debate would take quite so long, but it has been worth list...
My Lords, as an aside, I was going to say that we are sitting in a bit of a chilly draught here, ...
Moved by
Baroness Pinnock
15A: Clause 41, page 41, line 29, at end insert—
“(4A...
My Lords, in his response just now the Minister talked about raising the competence of the constr...
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is taking part remotely, so I invite her to speak now...
My Lords, I declare my interests as a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Fire Safety and R...
My Lords, we will also hear from the noble Baroness, Lady Harris of Richmond.
My Lords, I will be brief and I, too, wish to speak to the amendments in the names of my noble fr...
My Lords, I obviously support what my noble friend Lady Pinnock said in relation to the training ...
My Lords, I am very sympathetic to this group of amendments, but I have a number of queries that ...
My Lords, I speak in particular to the amendments in this group in the names of the noble Barones...
My Lords, I will first respond to the noble Lord, Lord Khan, and say that I agree with absolutely...
I thank the Minister for giving way. I have understood her line of argument very clearly, but she...
No, what I am saying is that a higher-risk building, or any building which has certain issues, wi...
I thank the Minister for her very full response to the issues raised, particularly on Amendment 1...
Moved by
Lord Greenhalgh
17: Clause 41, page 51, line 21, at beginning insert “Sectio...
Moved by
Lord Greenhalgh
23: Clause 52, page 77, line 9, leave out “public body’s fin...
Moved by
Lord Young of Cookham
24: Schedule 5, page 166, line 16, at end insert—
<...My Lords, in moving Amendment 24 in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Blencathra, I will a...
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is taking part remotely, and I invite her to speak.
My Lords, I wish to speak briefly to the amendments in this group, particularly in relation to th...
My Lords, before I get my bearings, it is always good to have a few Latin phrases. “Quis custodie...
My Lords, as your Lordships will know, I have three amendments in my name in this group. I will s...
My Lords, since it seems de rigueur to start with a quote, I suggest we start with Jean-Baptiste ...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 35. I was expecting others to speak to it first, but I shall...
Does the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, want to speak next?
I am happy to do so. I was assuming that the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, wanted to speak to the ...
Then I will speak to my amendment, as I stood up first. As noble Lords have said, this has been a...
I put this amendment forward originally to your Lordships’ wonderful team of parliamentary clerks...
Perhaps someone should table some amendments to change the word “polluter” in the Bill to “perpet...
I know we have a fuel crisis, but it is bracing in here; I should be used to it, coming from York...
That is worse.
Yes. “Drectly” is what they say in Cornwall, which means “This year, next year, some time never”....
My Lords, this has been a very good debate. I have enjoyed listening to virtually every speech, i...
My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have contributed to this long and important debate. I no...
Housing is ring-fenced.
I know that housing is ring-fenced; I introduced the housing revenue account.
I think we had better move on from that.
My noble friend mentioned a group that we have so ...
Moved by
Lord Greenhalgh
25: Schedule 5, page 166, line 28, leave out paragraphs 38 a...
Moved by
Lord Greenhalgh
31: Clause 57, page 79, line 4, leave out from “on” to end o...
Moved by
Lord Greenhalgh
36: Clause 57, page 79, line 24, leave out from “that” to en...
Moved by
Lord Greenhalgh
40: Clause 57, page 80, leave out lines 3 to 5 and insert—
Moved by
Lord Greenhalgh
41: After Clause 57, insert the following new Clause—
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