Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for the introduction to his amendments. We fully ...

My Lords, I will take this opportunity to speak to my Amendments 270A and 270B, which are amendme...

My Lords, I shall speak to the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lady Bennett, and in min...

I just want to say that my purpose was to incorporate into the legislation what are existing stat...

I thank the noble Lord; ambitious is good.

On Amendment 226, we need to define “mitigation”...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the LGA. I apologise for my late arrival a...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 504 in this group, standing in my name and that of the noble ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bellingham. He says that he canno...

My Lords—

My Lords, can I briefly follow my noble friend Lord Teverson? There is no need to replicate what ...

My Lords, speaking in this debate is fraught with danger: you either follow the noble Baroness, L...

My Lords, I will say a few words in support of my noble friend Lord Caithness. I can well underst...

My Lords, I speak in general support of this group of amendments. I agree with those who have sai...

My Lords, there is a lot to unpick in that rather meaty debate. I applaud all noble Lords for the...

Before the noble Baroness moves on, will she address the issue of why, if everything is already f...

As I mentioned, this summer there will be a review of the whole framework, based on the responses...

Obviously I put an amendment to that amendment, which was about viability assessments for propose...

I turn next to Amendment 273A in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, which ind...

The Minister mentioned the habitats regulations. Can she remind me whether the Government intend ...

That is my understanding; if that is wrong, I will certainly put it right on the record.

I ...

Before the Minister moves on, I am very grateful for her full explanation on this amendment, but ...

Since this is a Defra lead, I will commit to write to my noble friend and share the answer with t...

My Lords, I know this is the standard format—we put forward improvements and the Government bat t...

Of course the Government are doing that, but we have to consider everything in the round, and we ...

My Lords, before I come back to my Amendments 270A and 270B, and Amendment 270 in the name of the...

I dispute that, but I do admit that I overstated the case. It was a struggle, and it still is a s...

I knew that would get a rise out of the noble Baroness.

Coming back to my amendments, I thi...

I do not underestimate the serious concerns that wildfires increasingly present to local authorit...

Very briefly on flooding, there was no mention of flooding in the Environment Act, and it is not ...

Absolutely, we are very happy to meet on all these issues.

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for her full response to this debate, which admirably ...

Moved by

Lord Best

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My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, and the right reverend Prelate ...

I will speak to Amendments 215 and 218, tabled by me and my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham. T...

My Lords, I will speak to all the amendments in this group. I support them all, with the exceptio...

My Lords, I like this group of amendments. We have just had a group of amendments in which we tal...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 219A, which has been attached, rather inelegantly, to this...

My Lords, I will speak to this group of amendments, doing so as a property professional. For very...

I shall speak very briefly in support of the group of amendments, on none of which would I dare w...

My Lords, I was going to make the shortest speech in this debate, but the right reverend Prelate ...

My Lords, this is an extremely important debate with a large number of amendments of great import...

My Lords, this group of amendments exposes the conundrum at the heart of planning for housing. At...

My Lords, this group of amendments—and the subsequent group on social housing, which we will prob...

My Lords, as we have heard, these amendments relate to housing need and the homebuying process.