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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 25 April 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Yvette Cooper. The answering member was Lord Gove.

Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill

Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third Reading, and any other proceedings. Agreed to on division (322 to 107).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
445 c504-40 
Session
2005-06
Department
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Tom Brake | 445 c514-5 (Link to this contribution) The availability of affordable housing is certainly an issue in the local council election campaigns...
Tony Baldry | 445 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) The House recognises that it is desirable to bring this business to a close speedily, as I suspect t...
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Tom Brake | 445 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to thank the Minister for providing the briefing to the spokesman who leads on Office ...
Tony Baldry | 445 c514 (Link to this contribution) : There has been much speculation in the London borough election campaigns about the British Nationa...
David Leslie Taylor | 445 c516 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may talk about large-scale voluntary transfer, but in some recent cases it has be...
Mark Tami | 445 c511 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the number of Tory councils throughout the country that appear to...
Lord Gove | 445 c512-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for that necessary correction to the exuberance that both the hon. Lady and ...
Speaker | 445 c512 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are going wide of the business before us, which hon. Members should bear in mind.
Phyllis Starkey | 445 c512 (Link to this contribution) I draw the hon. Gentleman’s attention to Milton Keynes, where the Conservative hon. Member for North...
Lord Gove | 445 c511-2 (Link to this contribution) I have reflected long and hard on not only Conservative but Liberal Democrat and Labour councils and...
Yvette Cooper | 445 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) We have taken the matter seriously. We considered seriously whether we needed legislation at all or ...
Lord Gove | 445 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for her courtesy to Opposition Front Benchers in the discussion before the Bill...
Peter Bone | 445 c510 (Link to this contribution) We are being asked to pass retrospective legislation, which I always think is very dangerous. Does m...
Lord Gove | 445 c510-1 (Link to this contribution) I note my hon. Friend’s point. I admire his desire to lessen the burden of legislation that the Hous...
Tony Baldry | 445 c511 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend rightly trumpets the achievements of housing associations, but their work often depen...
Lord Gove | 445 c511 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful intervention and particularly for continuing to champion the ...
Peter Bone | 445 c507 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the number of board meetings. I believe that board members meet once a week for a...
Yvette Cooper | 445 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) It was not practice at the time to include such an express power. After its inception, the Housing C...
Grant Shapps | 445 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) The House takes retrospective legislation seriously—that might explain why a number of Members are p...
Yvette Cooper | 445 c507 (Link to this contribution) The board has to consider a series of things that it did not expect to consider under the previous u...
Peter Bone | 445 c506 (Link to this contribution) When Parliament originally set up the Housing Corporation in 1964, there was no intention that it sh...
Tony Baldry | 445 c505 (Link to this contribution) I would hate the Minister to think that we were not all listening. I am grateful to her for giving w...
Yvette Cooper | 445 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the need for social housing but also for shared eq...
Yvette Cooper | 445 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This is a short, two-clause Bill, which is ...
Greg Hands | 445 c530 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was going to list the litany of complaints from M...
Speaker | 445 c530 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should not argue with the ruling from the Chair; he should accept the guid...
Greg Hands | 445 c530-1 (Link to this contribution) The debate on this Bill is being watched closely in Hammersmith and Fulham. Notting Hill Housing Gro...
Peter Bone | 445 c531 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether my hon. Friend thinks that the delegated power assumed by the Housing Corporat...
Greg Hands | 445 c531 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may be right. There are some precedents on retrospective legislation—for example, the...
Phyllis Starkey | 445 c531 (Link to this contribution) I am having some difficulty in following the hon. Gentleman’s argument, because it is so wide rangin...
Greg Hands | 445 c531 (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill, but it could be more wide ranging. If it had been thought through properly, rath...
Speaker | 445 c531 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman will seriously test the patience of the House if he goes down that route.
Greg Hands | 445 c531 (Link to this contribution) You are right, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Nevertheless, the Labour council has delivered on all the things ...
Robert Syms | 445 c531-3 (Link to this contribution) This short debate has been more interesting than some of us initially expected. It has given Members...
Phyllis Starkey | 445 c528 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be approached by not as many private tenants with problems as council tenants...
Greg Hands | 445 c528 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a good and valid point, but my experience in Hammersmith and Fulham does not bea...
Anne Main | 445 c526 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but as you can see I am passionate about this, and I know that othe...
Greg Hands | 445 c526-8 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have been called in this debate as the Housing Corporation and the housing associa...
Peter Bone | 445 c529 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, with reference to the Housing Corporation, there are a great many om...
Speaker | 445 c529 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Bone) is trying to be of assistance to the ...
Speaker | 445 c529 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is beginning to spin out of orbit so far as the Bill is concerned. This is...
Greg Hands | 445 c529 (Link to this contribution) I accept your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was merely pointing out that great play was made in 19...
Speaker | 445 c530 (Link to this contribution) Order. The more I hear on this subject from the hon. Gentleman, the more I think it would be appropr...
Greg Hands | 445 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) I agree, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I merely point out that my Labour predecessor was right. People are bet...
Grant Shapps | 445 c522 (Link to this contribution) I have tried to confine myself to the two clauses in the Bill. In summary, there are, as I have outl...
Anne Main | 445 c522-4 (Link to this contribution) As other Members have pointed out, this is a very brief little Bill, which consists of a few lines. ...
Mark Tami | 445 c524 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Lady explain why she signed early-day motion 23, opposing house building in Hertfordshi...
Anne Main | 445 c524 (Link to this contribution) I most certainly can; I am opposed to inappropriate development. Fortunately, I chose to ignore the ...
Grant Shapps | 445 c521-2 (Link to this contribution) One thing that is quite obvious—it has happened since the formation of housing associations—is that ...
Speaker | 445 c522 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that tomorrow will be sufficient unto the day. The hon. Gentleman is trying to invite...
Anne Main | 445 c524-6 (Link to this contribution) I was carried away, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so let us return to the Hightown Praetorian housing associat...
Speaker | 445 c524 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I suggest that it would be inappropriate for that line of argument to continue?
Speaker | 445 c526 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Lady will accept the metaphor that she is stretching the elastic a littl...
Mark Tami | 445 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman will accept that sometimes things are wrong and have to be corrected, in the sa...
Peter Bone | 445 c519 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I do accept that. However, if the hon. Gentleman is saying that the Government of...
Tony Baldry | 445 c517 (Link to this contribution) With respect, the difficulty with section 106 agreements is that developers are having to come up wi...
Peter Bone | 445 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) I begin by drawing the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests, and to t...
Tony Baldry | 445 c516 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is mistaken. Certainly the housing associations in my part of the co...
Yvette Cooper | 445 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Gentleman asked his local council what section 106 negotiations they are having? It is ...
David Leslie Taylor | 445 c521 (Link to this contribution) : Would the hon. Gentleman care to contrast the model of accountability that he has just described, ...
Grant Shapps | 445 c520-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to make two brief but important points about this short Bill. The first has to do with accoun...
Peter Bone | 445 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that if we had longer time to scrutinise the Bill we would not p...
David Leslie Taylor | 445 c519 (Link to this contribution) : Does the hon. Gentleman agree that most drafting errors tend to emerge not during forensic debate ...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 445 c536-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point that the powers are clear and extensive, but the local authori...
Greg Hands | 445 c536 (Link to this contribution) But does the Minister accept that the scheme of delegation in the Bill is absolutely all-embracing c...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 445 c534-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that I shall disappoint the hon. Gentleman when I say no. I know that several of his colleag...
Peter Bone | 445 c534 (Link to this contribution) The Housing Corporation’s total running costs for the current year will be £40.3 million. Did the Go...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 445 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank hon. Members for their contributions to this valuable debate. Before I respond to specific p...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 445 c522 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is growing unrest in our communities about accountability or, m...
Subjects
Accountability Administration Committees Housing Housing associations Functions Housing Corporation English Partnerships Powers Membership Staff Social rented housing Tenants
Legislation
Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc Bill 2005-06
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