Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

I remind the Committee that we are still debating the group beginning with Amendment 313, if any ...

My Lords, I am sorry to move ahead of my noble friend. The amendments in this group go to the hea...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 332, 333 and 341. I am extremely grateful to the noble Lo...

My Lords, I add my voice to Amendments 332, 333 and 341 from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Eth...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the names of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, and...

Forgive me; I may be mistaken, but I do not think that the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, was here ...

I was.

I apologise; the noble Lord is not in my notes. I will accept his word that he was.

Citizens Advice and others have pointed to provision of rural housing being a growing problem and...

I want briefly to refer to the clause stand part notice tabled by my noble friend Lord Young of C...

My Lords, Amendments 313 and 317 propose to make the levy voluntary for local authorities or to i...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister. She has given a number of examples. Will the biodiversity n...

I think I have just said that we are currently consulting on what will be in those. I would prefe...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who took part in this debate—over two days, because we...

My Lords, we remain with the question of the infrastructure levy in this part of the Bill. The pu...

My Lords, this may be the third occasion on which we have discussed the infrastructure levy, whic...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for initiating this clause stand part debate, bec...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Lansley for tabling these amendments.

As we have dis...

The issue about regional inequalities is really important. This is supposed to be a levelling-up ...

I am not sure that is right. To take affordable housing, in an area with lower housing-cost needs...

The noble Baroness makes a very interesting point, but the problem is that construction costs are...

I take that point. We have talked about the different rates from different development typologies...

The Minister makes a very important point about the infrastructure levy, as opposed to Section 10...

I will look to the evidence but, as I have clearly stated many times, we are expecting the same i...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

355A: Schedule 11, page 365, line 22, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

357A: Schedule 11, page 365, line 38, after “oblig...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

361A: Schedule 11, page 366, line 36, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

364B: Clause 127, page 158, line 34, after “the...

My Lords, we move on to Part 5, “Community land auction pilots”. This was not in the Bill when it...

My Lords, I shall speak to the proposition in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Lansley th...

My Lords, I cede everything to my noble friend Lord Young when it comes to experience and wisdom ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, very much for the best explanation of co...

My Lords, in addition to the levy we have been debating, the Government are interested in testing...

My Lords, maybe it is because it is Thursday afternoon, but I am slightly more confused now than ...

My Lords, the process will not be as my noble friend has described. The simplest way I can descri...

I am very grateful to my noble friend the Minister for the very patient way he dealt with the arg...

The extent to which those financial benefits can be taken into account will be set out, as I ment...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting discussion. This is probably one of the cases where th...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

367: Clause 138, page 169, line 26, leave out “may...

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group. I will not go into detail on all of them b...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 384. Before I start, as there has been some gap between my...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge, and I am sur...

My Lords, I will speak to three amendments in my name in this group: Amendments 378A, 378B and 38...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 372A in this group. Previous speakers have invested a huge...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment, which has been coupled with this group. We are now moving...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 384, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbrid...

My Lords, having listened with care to what has been said on these amendments on this important p...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their thoughtful consideration and hope that, in addre...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her thorough and detailed response. I also thank all noble Lor...

Moved by

Viscount Trenchard

372ZA: Clause 138, page 169, line 37, at end insert—

My Lords, I apologise that I have not participated at Second Reading or earlier in Committee on t...

My Lords, I very much support what my noble friend has just said, having grown up in that part of...

My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to support every word that the noble Viscount has just said—...

My Lords, I too am not always in agreement with the words of my noble friend, but I strongly supp...

My Lords, briefly, I join all those who have supported my noble friend’s amendment. I think that ...

My Lords, how sensible it was of my noble friend Lord Trenchard to degroup this amendment from th...

There is an enormous number of amendments, and I somehow did not spot it. If I had spotted it, my...

Take that back!

If I were a fisherman on one of the Dorset rivers now with the mayfly hatching, I would have caug...

My Lords, I support Amendment 372ZA in the name of the noble Viscount, Lord Trenchard, to which I...

My Lords, I am delighted to see the Minister in his place because it gives him the opportunity to...

My Lords, I refer to my entry in the register. Amendment 372ZA seeks to amend the definition “env...

I am sure that my noble friend’s comments are absolutely acceptable and I see perfectly well why ...

I will have to have discussions with colleagues and officials to see whether there are other area...

My Lords, the Minister mentioned the Kennet case. Is he satisfied that enough legislation is in p...

A decade ago, we provided a mechanism whereby overextraction would require action to be taken, in...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have participated in this debate. I am greatly heartened by...

There was no need for riling.

If it should be necessary for me to bring back this amendment on Report, I shall be happy to rece...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

373A: Clause 139, page 170, line 36, at end insert...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

374A: Clause 141, page 173, line 16, after “(4)” i...

Moved by

Lord Randall of Uxbridge

387: After Clause 151, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, the Government have set themselves a tremendous triple task: by the end of the next Par...

My Lords, before speaking to the amendment, which I strongly support, I remind the Committee of m...

My Lords, I have Amendment 471 in this group, which is on a different point. It would insert a ne...

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

My Lords, I support and shall speak very briefly to Amendment 471 in the name of the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as per the register. I apologise to the Committee that I have not...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on their 30 by 30 target. It is an enormous and ambitious...

My Lords, I support Amendment 387 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge.

...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, for letting me add my name to his Amendment 471 concerning ...

My Lords, I offer support to my noble friend Lord Randall on protected landscapes. We need to kno...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 387 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge, to wh...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge, very much for his introduction to his...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Randall of Uxbridge for tabling Amendment 387, and my nobl...

I am grateful to my noble friend for the news of a five-year extension. Could his department try ...

I thank my noble friend. He and the noble Baroness made very important points, but this is a ques...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I have a point of clarification. The term “recreational acce...

I understand the campaigning point that the noble Baroness makes. That is perhaps for another occ...

My Lords, we have had a very interesting debate. I thank all those who have supported my amendmen...

Moved by

Baroness Willis of Summertown

390: Clause 153, page 182, line 9, at end inse...

My Lords, Amendment 390 in my name, supported by the noble Baronesses, Lady Parminter and Lady Jo...

My Lords, apart from the Government, I have the bulk of the other amendments in this group so I t...

My Lords, Amendment 393ZA is in my name and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, fo...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Willis, in her Amendment 390, to which I have added ...

I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions. I will come to the various points but, firs...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords and Baronesses who have participated in the debate, particularl...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

393A: Clause 153, page 187, line 18, leave out fro...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

393B: Clause 155, page 190, line 36, leave out fro...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

403: Clause 156, page 193, line 11, at end inse...

My Lords, although it is not a matter for the register of interests, I declare a particular inter...

My Lords, this short group is actually very important. Clause 156 in Part 8 is an introduction by...

My Lords, I support what the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Stevenage, said, as well as what my n...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, has explained, this group of amendments concerns de...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Earl for giving us a detailed and thorough response, in spit...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

412A: Clause 168, page 213, line 21, leave out sub...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

412B: Before Schedule 15, insert the following new...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

412C: Clause 171, page 216, line 3, at end insert—...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

412D: After Clause 175, insert the following new C...