Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, in this debate on transport, it is a pleasure to follow in the slipstream of the noble ...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak to a number of amendments in this group, to which my name is atta...

Could the noble Baroness explain whether rapid or fast is the faster of the two?

Rapid is faster than far, but that would not be obvious to the average local public sector employ...

My Lords, I guess I should rise at this point to follow with pleasure the noble Baroness, Lady Ra...

My Lords, my name is attached to Amendment 470 in this group, and it is a particular pleasure to ...

My Lords, I was reflecting that we have barely mentioned levelling up in the last two Committee d...

My Lords, I support Amendment 240 in the names of my noble friends Lord Berkeley and Lord Hunt, t...

My Lords, I am very pleased to make my debut on the LURB. I am sorry that it has taken so long, b...

I apologise to the Minister, but could she explain to the House where the balance lies between co...

I had better write with more details on that subject. As noble Lords will know, I have not been i...

My apologies for also interrupting the Minister. I know that she has not been part of previous di...

Indeed, I am aware that those conversations have been happening and, as a Transport Minister, per...

I am very pleased to hear about the Government’s commitment and that we will soon get details tha...

The noble Baroness would probably decline to make a comment on that at this moment, as that would...

I believe there was widespread consultation from the Welsh Government with Welsh local government...

That is fantastic to hear, and I am sure that all local authorities 100% agreed with the Welsh Go...

Would the Minister acknowledge that 30 miles per hour was, of course, the blanket applied by West...

I was about to come on to the fact that changing the speed limit on a blanket basis would be incr...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this excellent debate. Many of them are proba...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

241A: After Clause 93, insert the following new...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 241A, I shall speak also to my Amendment 500 and comment on other a...

My Lords, I shall speak in support of Amendment 242 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Stunell. ...

My Lords, I am very pleased that I chose to give way to the right reverend prelate the Bishop of ...

My Lords, before the noble Lord takes his seat, may I apologise for jumping the gun? Before he ha...

I think the spirit moved. It is good the right reverend Prelate spoke first in this case.

My Lords, I rise to speak particularly to my Amendment 438, but I will preface my remarks by sayi...

My Lords, I wish to intervene briefly to put this debate in an important context. Before I do so,...

My Lords, I have two amendments in my name that I wish to speak to briefly. However, prior to tha...

My Lords, before we conclude this group, I start by saying that I do not know how any Government ...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Does he agree that a compounding factor is that the calcul...

I thank the noble Lord for his comment. I agree entirely with what he says. Without being able to...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham for his explanation of the difficult deci...

The Minister is being extremely thorough. She has emphasised very much that she does not want to ...

I cannot give that assurance because we have not yet published them, but from everything I know o...

I am grateful to noble Lords for such an interesting debate on a crucial topic central to the Lev...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

242A: Schedule 8, page 327, line 9, at end insert—...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

243: Clause 95, page 102, line 35, at end insert—<...

My Lords, Amendment 243 is in the name of my noble friend Lady Taylor of Stevenage. Amendments 24...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 245—a probing amendment—in my name and that of my noble frien...

My Lords, this is an important group of amendments, and I have great pleasure in supporting them ...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendments that were so ably addressed and presented by the noble...

My Lords, I agree strongly with what the noble Lord, Lord Carrington of Fulham, just said about A...

My Lords, first, I simply put right a matter of record. I failed to declare my interests in our d...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to heritage, assets of community value and permitted d...

Could the Minister explain why he considers it appropriate for authorities to have this power but...

I am grateful to the noble Earl for his questions. If it is helpful, I am very happy to speak to ...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, and I thank the Minister for his thor...

Tabled by

The Earl of Lytton

245: Clause 98, page 108, line 19, at end insert—

...

My Lords, I will not move this amendment, but I look forward to meeting with the Minister about t...

Moved by

Lord Lexden

247: After Clause 98, insert the following new Clause—

“Pe...

My Lords, I move Amendment 247, brought forward by my noble friend Lord Northbrook, who sadly can...

My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy with the views expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Lexden, about...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lexden, for introducing the amendments in the name of the ...

My Lords, I would like to thank my noble friend Lord Northbrook for tabling these amendments and ...

My Lords, I thank the two noble Baronesses on the Opposition Front Benches for their valuable poi...

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

248: Clause 99, page 108, line 34, at end insert—

My Lords, we come now to the clause in the Bill dealing with street votes, which has generated a ...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young. I will speak to our Amend...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, and the noble Barones...

My Lords, I think we can say that there has been a less than enthusiastic response to the proposa...

My Lords, a range of questions have been asked on this group of amendments. It might be helpful i...

Does the Minister accept that as part of that consultation we should speak to the Local Governmen...

We want to engage in extensive consultation. I have every confidence that the Government will wan...

I thank the noble Earl for giving way. He has perhaps got the cart in front of the horse there. M...

I take the noble Lord’s point. This highlights again how important it will be to ensure that the ...

The noble Earl has mentioned, a couple of times now, independent examination of street voting. Do...

No, it most certainly does not. Our intention is to appoint the Planning Inspectorate to examine ...

I wonder if I could help the noble Earl. For neighbourhood plans, there is an independent examine...

That is a helpful suggestion, which I am happy to feed in.

On Amendments 252 and 253, in th...

I apologise. The noble Earl said that commercial developments in an area would have a vote, but h...

It is not that businesses would be on the electoral roll. If I misspoke, what I meant to say was ...

So could Tesco, for instance, have a vote, if there was a little Tesco Express on the street?

The intention is that, if there is a commercial business paying commercial business rates, it sho...

This gets more interesting by the day.

No doubt this will be the subject of further debate—

And consultation.

Yes, and consultation.

Before I speak to the government amendments, I will turn to Amendmen...

I hear what the noble Earl is saying. In that respect, our amendment was more to seek the views o...

My Lords, if I may say so, that is a very helpful intervention from the noble Baroness. She raise...

I thank the noble Earl for giving way—I realise he has a mammoth task this afternoon. Amendment 2...

I appreciate the noble Lord’s question and his interest in that amendment; I understand why he fe...

Near the beginning of my speech, I asked the Minister if he would be able to define a street. Cou...

I am so sorry I omitted to reply to the noble Baroness; I will write to her. It is a question I a...

My Lords, the hour is late, and we are less than half way through the targeted groups for the day...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

248A: Clause 99, page 109, leave out lines 12 to 1...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

256A: Clause 99, page 117, line 22, leave out subs...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

257A: After Clause 100, insert the following new C...

Moved by

Baroness Pinnock

257B: Clause 101, page 124, line 2, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, my Amendment 257B is to Clause 101, by which the Government will centralise to the Secr...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, for introducing her amendment. We agree with ...

My Lords, I have not participated in this Bill so far. I arrived today thinking seriously about t...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts. My concern i...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friend Lady Hayman, who performed an excellent destr...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. Before we hear from my noble friend,...

My Lords, looking first at this clause as a totality, I will begin by explaining briefly the purp...

I thank the Minister for his careful response to the concerns that have been raised. I said at th...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

258: After Clause 101, insert the following new Clause—

...

I rise to speak to Amendments 258 and 504GJI in my name. Both refer to issues to do with the Duch...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Berkeley for once again using his very detailed, particula...

My Lords, I will start by addressing Amendment 258 and then move on to Amendment 504GJI, tabled b...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving us a very interesting history lesson, which I certainly ...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

258A: Before Schedule 9, insert the following new ...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

258B: Clause 102, page 130, line 28, at end insert—

“(5A)...

My Lords, I remind noble Lords of my registered interest as chair of the Cambridgeshire Developme...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 268 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, to whi...

My Lords, there are two amendments in this group in the name of my noble friend Lady Taylor of St...

I just want to briefly say that I very strongly support the plea put in by my noble friend in rel...

Amendment 258B tabled by my noble friend Lord Lansley touches on the very specific matter of drop...

I apologise for intervening at this late hour. On that point, since the Minister has promised she...

I will certainly reflect on that question and see what we can do.

I thank the noble Lord, L...

I am grateful to my noble friend, particularly for the opportunity to have further discussions wi...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

260A: Clause 102, page 132, line 7, leave out from...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

261: Clause 104, page 135, line 13, at end inse...

My Lords, I rise to move my Amendment 261 and I am very pleased that government Amendment 261A is...

My Lords, I beg to move that the debate on this amendment be adjourned.