Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 15 in the names of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of ...

My Lords, at Second Reading, I remember applauding, broadly speaking, the ambitions of the White ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 20 in this group, calling for the provision of safe and affor...

My Lords, my Amendment 21 joins a queue to add, amend or clarify missions. This queue can feel a ...

My Lords, I am very glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, who has given us a ve...

My Lords, I will speak first to Amendment 31 in my name. It aims to ensure that initiatives and f...

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We are laughing but in the end, it is no joke. It means that people are isolated and unable to ge...

The contributions we have heard in Committee this afternoon get to the heart of the question as t...

I want to know who measured that.

My Lords, as I have set out in earlier debates, it has always been the Government’s intention tha...

My Lords, this has been a really important discussion, not just more broadly around the missions ...

Moved by

Lord Shipley

10: Clause 1, page 1, line 14, at end insert—

“(2A) A sta...

My Lords, this could be a brief debate on this group of amendments. I agree with the noble Barone...

My Lords, it is rather a shame that this Bill appears to have become a bit of a Christmas tree Bi...

My Lords, I want to talk briefly about the granularity of data, the choice of data and its use, a...

My Lords, I am beginning to think that eight days is not enough for Committee. I am sorry about t...

My Lords, I support Amendment 10 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Shipley and Lord Foster of...

My Lords, as this is my first time speaking in Committee, I lay out my interests as in the regist...

My Lords, three issues have been raised by this small group: defining geographies—we talked a lot...

My Lords, this group of amendments addresses the assessment of levelling up. Amendment 10 was tab...

The noble Baroness read out a list of eminent people and said that their voice is important. If t...

No one has said that those views cannot be taken when the missions are scrutinised by both Houses...

That is really important but I should like clarification on who is collecting the data, how it is...

There may be more questions but I am coming on to some of that.

That is why my department h...

Is the Minister willing to consider her department publishing for each local authority area the g...

I would like to go back on that specific issue because we would need to work with the Department ...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend. I am coming back to a point that she raised a moment ago...

I do not know, but the council is already in train and working. On the fact that it has not come ...

I am sorry to interrupt because I know that the Minister wants to get on, but can she tell us at ...

I do not know whether it has any views on it at the moment, but I will ask that question.

A...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the Minister’s response, but the more I learn, the more worried ...

On the deep-dive teams, of course they are working with local people. I have said that this combi...

I would be very happy with that, but I did not know about, and I think that no one else in this C...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

39: After Clause 2, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, I am assuming, optimistically, that local government will be a key partner in levelling...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Stevenage, has raised some significant points in her...

My Lords, this group of amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Stevenage, looks ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Earl for his thoughtful response. On the first amendmen...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

42: After Clause 3, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, first, I declare an interest as a leaseholder. Secondly, these are issues that I have r...

My Lords, I have added my name to the probing amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, which ...

My Lords, I commend the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, for keeping the issue of the probl...

My Lords, I declare my residential and commercial property interests as set out in the register. ...

I accept entirely that when the noble Lord was a Minister, we got that first stage of ground rent...

My Lords, good debate. I agree.

My Lords, I was concerned that, after quite a sky-level discussion of missions and strategy and t...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Kennedy of Southwark for introducing his ever-helpful amen...

My Lords, as we have heard loud and clear from the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, in his introduction ...

Would the best way to achieve the ambition my noble friend has just set out not be to publish the...

My Lords, we fully understand the desire for urgency in this area. The Minister, my noble friend ...

Can the noble Earl confirm whether there is a draft Bill? That would be useful. Can he also maybe...

I do not think I can add to what I have already said. I shall endeavour to ascertain the state of...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has spoken in this debate. I also —I should have done this when I ...