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Housing and Planning Bill. Committee stage seventeenth sitting (afternoon).

New clause 9 (Duty to promote lending to small and medium sized house builders) withdrawn. New clause 10 (Planning obligations in respect of apprentices) withdrawn. New clause 12 (Tenants' rights to new management in property sold under LSVT) withdrawn. New clause 13 (Conversion of leasehold to commonhold for interdependent properties) withdrawn. New clause 21 (Planning obligations: local first-time buyers) withdrawn. New clause 22 (Security of tenure) withdrawn. New clause 24 (Local authorities and development control services), discussed with new clause 31 (Local authority planning fees cost recovery schemes) negatived on division (7 votes to 11). New clause 25 (Implied term of fitness for human habitation in residential lettings), discussed with new clause 26 (Requirement to carry out electrical safety checks) withdrawn. New clause 27 (Description of HMOs) withdrawn.New clause 28 (Reporting of housing benefit paid) withdrawn. New clause 29 (Accreditation and licensing for private landlords) withdrawn. New clause 30 (Restrictions to granting permission in principle) withdrawn. New clause 34 (Extension of the Housing Ombudsman to cover the private rented sector) withdrawn. New clause 35 (Cover for money received or held by lettings agents in the course of business) withdrawn. New clause 36 (Restriction on permitted changes of use) withdrawn. New clause 37 (Removal of limit on debt where an authority has a housing revenue account) withdrawn. New clause 38 (Extension of Help to buy schemes to tenants receiving support for the voluntary Right to buy) withdrawn. New schedule 2 ( Default powers exercisable by Mayor of London or combined authority: schedule to be inserted in the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004) agreed to. New schedule 3 (Right to enter and survey land: consequential amendments) agreed to. New schedule 4 (Secure tenancies etc: phasing out of tenancies for life) agreed to. Schedule 5 (Succession to secure tenancies and related tenancies) agreed to. Bill, as amended, to be reported (Bill 108). Written evidence reported to the House.