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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Yvette Cooper. The answering member was Grant Shapps.

Housing and Regeneration Bill

Housing and Regeneration Bill. Second reading debate. Amendment negatived on division (151 to 339). Main question agreed to on question. Programme motion for proceedings in Committee, Report, Third Reading and other proceedings agreed to on question. Money resolution agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
468 c145-253 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2007-0265
Friday, 7 December 2007
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House of Commons
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Proceeding contributions
John Bercow | 468 c148 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister of State both for her generosity and for her concern for my physical h...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c148-9 (8MC) (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I obviously cannot comment on the details of the south-east plan, whic...
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Mike Hancock | 468 c152 (Link to this contribution) I am enthused by the idea that the Government are going to give more help to local authorities, perh...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c152 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. She will know that the Housing Corporation is tasked to del...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c153-4 (Link to this contribution) I will not; I need to make some progress. I apologise to hon. Members. The Bill sets out an importa...
Clive Betts | 468 c153 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Yvette Cooper | 468 c154 (Link to this contribution) I ask Opposition Members even now to reconsider and back our plans for 240,000 new homes and for a b...
Paul Beresford | 468 c154 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
David Winnick | 468 c152 (Link to this contribution) What can my right hon. Friend do to encourage local authorities to ensure that, when planning applic...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c152 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may want to look more carefully at the Bill, because it includes proposals to mak...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c153 (Link to this contribution) I have taken a huge number of interventions and I really need to make some progress. There are a s...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c152 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made an important point and I will certainly look at what can be done to help loc...
Karen Buck | 468 c151-2 (Link to this contribution) Since his election, the Mayor of London has hugely increased the supply of affordable housing—by 10,...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c149 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my right hon. Friend but then, if Members will allow me, I shall make a bit of pr...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c151 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. If one simply cuts stamp duty and does not build more homes...
David Chaytor | 468 c151 (Link to this contribution) On affordability, the typical starter home in my constituency costs between £80,000 and £100,000. Th...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c151 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, the Homes and Communities Agency has to operate within the framework of the planning system...
Joan Walley | 468 c151 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. I think that the whole House welcomes the...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c150-1 (Link to this contribution) I have taken several interventions and I will happily take more later on, but I hope that Members wi...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c149-50 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right: critical to delivering additional homes is the bringing into use of a...
Andrew Smith | 468 c149 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister; she has been generous. I warmly welcome the Bill, but how does my ri...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c149 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We must not simply build more homes, but better homes. That includes cuttin...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c148 (Link to this contribution) The Bill already makes changes that will support those who leave the armed services so that they can...
Mark Pritchard | 468 c148 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. I have an important question, and am certainly desperate for an...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c148 (Link to this contribution) I am worried that the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) will topple over the Bench, so I will...
Dan Rogerson | 468 c149 (Link to this contribution) What provision does the Bill make for housing options for groups of people with specific needs, such...
Jim Cunningham | 468 c149 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is talking about the building of houses for rent, particularly for the low-paid...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c149 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the supporting people budget has substantially increased the a...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c147 (Link to this contribution) Some Opposition Members are so desperate to get in that I cannot resist taking their interventions. ...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c147 (Link to this contribution) I need to make some progress, but I will take a couple more interventions, first from my hon. Friend...
Jeremy Corbyn | 468 c147 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Yvette Cooper | 468 c147 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. My constituency is also a coalfield area, and we support the building of mo...
Dennis Skinner | 468 c147 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. The Meden valley ““Making Places”” scheme in the Bolsov...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c147 (Link to this contribution) The Bill allows councils to offer council tenancies. We need that change in the legislation, otherwi...
Andrew Love | 468 c158 (Link to this contribution) I have taken the opportunity to read the amendment, which makes no mention of homelessness—a major p...
Grant Shapps | 468 c158-9 (Link to this contribution) Given the hon. Gentleman's interest in homelessness, he will know that the week before last I issued...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c157 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell us how many new homes the Conservative party thinks that we need to bui...
Grant Shapps | 468 c157 (Link to this contribution) I will come on to that in just a moment, if the hon. Lady is patient. I want to tell her about the P...
Nick Raynsford | 468 c156 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Gentleman read the Cave report, which recommends the creation of an independent, domain...
Grant Shapps | 468 c156 (Link to this contribution) As I was explaining to the House, the problem is not the Housing and Regeneration Bill. The problem ...
Richard Burden | 468 c157 (Link to this contribution) Just so we know whether we need to remind him, will the hon. Gentleman let us know when he will answ...
Grant Shapps | 468 c157-8 (Link to this contribution) When will this Government actually meet a target that they have set? They have tried targets in heal...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c155 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I cannot comment on individual planning applications or on any proposa...
Grant Shapps | 468 c156 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Housing and Regeneration Bil...
Paul Beresford | 468 c155 (Link to this contribution) May I explain to the Minister that in my area both of my Conservative local councils are meeting the...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend does not need the help!
Lord Redwood | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) Over the period of the planned 3 million homes, what is the Government's forecast of how many additi...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman will know, the Office for National Statistics forecasts the growth in po...
Bob Russell | 468 c145 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that in 10 years of Labour Governments only 5,000 council houses have been...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, the majority of the investment through the Housing Corporation in n...
Dennis Skinner | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Yvette Cooper | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman is lucky not to need additional jobs in his area but, given the press...
Lord Garnier | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) I am speaking to the Minister, not the hon. Lady. In my constituency, the Co-op owns about 5,000 acr...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c145 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. This is a serious and urgent issue for those families who do not have adequ...
Speaker | 468 c145 (Link to this contribution) I have to inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Leader of the Oppos...
Lindsay Hoyle | 468 c145 (Link to this contribution) I made the point in Question Time earlier that never before has Chorley had people in bed-and-breakf...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c145 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill will help to turn our ambitions fo...
Adam Price | 468 c209-11 (Link to this contribution) If people want to find the devolution dividend—the social gains from devolution—they should look no ...
Michael Meacher | 468 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) We will have to see whether those targets are met. With regard to national parks, there is a serious...
Mike Hancock | 468 c213 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady obviously knows a lot about affordable rents. I would be grateful if she could tell us...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c211-3 (Link to this contribution) I have been advised that I should declare an interest before participating in the debate. I refer ho...
Speaker | 468 c214 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady is getting a little carried away. Let us remember that temperate language is th...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I have let the hon. Gentleman intervene once. The Bill establishes the Homes and Communities Ag...
Tim Farron | 468 c207 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman acknowledge that, even though the figures that he refers to may be ins...
Mark Pritchard | 468 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to embarrass the right hon. Gentleman as a former Environment Minister, but is it not ...
Michael Meacher | 468 c207 (Link to this contribution) I entirely disagree with that. Of course voids are a problem, but the hon. Gentleman's suggestion th...
Julie Morgan | 468 c201-3 (Link to this contribution) The Bill proposes the same restrictions as apply to other mobile homes, but I agree that such matter...
Anne Main | 468 c201 (Link to this contribution) The Bill allows Gypsies and Travellers—or their family members—to purchase the sites on which they r...
Julie Morgan | 468 c200-1 (Link to this contribution) This is a wide-ranging and complex Bill and I welcome it. I shall address my remarks specifically to...
Anne Main | 468 c198-200 (Link to this contribution) I agree that high density schemes can be well designed. Indeed, some of our wonderful Georgian and V...
Michael Meacher | 468 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill as being the first serious attempt for perhaps three decades to seek to address t...
Richard Younger-Ross | 468 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) Vinyl is making a comeback. There is more need for space, so we should not have abolished Parker Mo...
Richard Younger-Ross | 468 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) When we debate housing, I often think about the two great leaders whose statues stand outside the Ch...
Margaret Moran | 468 c228-9 (Link to this contribution) I, too, believe that this Bill gives us cause for great optimism, notwithstanding the depression tha...
Andrew Gwynne | 468 c227-8 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend, and I think that that is the way the general public want us t...
Alistair Burt | 468 c230 (Link to this contribution) I am stunned by just how long the lead-in period has to be for a Government to deal with the success...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c226 (Link to this contribution) Do we not also need to strike a balance between ensuring that there is sufficient provision of priva...
Andrew Gwynne | 468 c226 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. As always, she has some imaginative ideas, and I hope that we shall be ...
David Wright | 468 c227 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is crucial that these estates should not be mono-tenure? They need...
Austin Mitchell | 468 c223-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not surprised, but amazed that that is happening. There is no reason for it. However, my main ...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 468 c226 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that we need to modernise the whole of the private rented sector and to fi...
Andrew Gwynne | 468 c224-6 (Link to this contribution) I should like to draw hon. Members' attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests, as ...
David Leslie Taylor | 468 c223 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend as surprised as I am by the proposal to give the new regulator powers to transfer ...
Austin Mitchell | 468 c223 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the point, with which I shall deal—at perhaps inordinate length—...
Austin Mitchell | 468 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) My speech follows a succession of very good and powerful speeches on this side of the House, all of ...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 468 c220-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I want more affordable housing in the public sector that owner-occupier...
David Leslie Taylor | 468 c219 (Link to this contribution) In light of the circumstances that my hon. Friend describes, is she concerned or alarmed that the Bi...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 468 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) It is not similar, in the main. However, I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her speech, because it ...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c218 (Link to this contribution) Is the experience of my hon. Friend's constituents similar to that of people in Islington, whereby t...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 468 c218 (Link to this contribution) Housing is of such fundamental importance to my constituents that I am absolutely delighted to be sp...
Brian Iddon | 468 c215-8 (Link to this contribution) In the north-west over the past decade the housing scene in our large cities and towns has changed f...
John Bercow | 468 c165 (Link to this contribution) I have regularly and publicly supported Aylesbury Vale district council when it has given the go-ahe...
Paul Beresford | 468 c164 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady pause for a moment and consider how her local voters will feel when they vote for...
Baroness Teather | 468 c167 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a desperate and urgent need to update the overcrowding crite...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c167 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman join me in condemning my local Liberal Democrat council? There are 13,000 pe...
Speaker | 468 c166 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps that was an ill-judged concession on the hon. Lady's part.
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c166-7 (Link to this contribution) The general intent of both the July Green Paper and the Bill, which seeks to make part of the Green ...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c165-6 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to support the hon. Gentleman, who—unlike some of his Conservative colleagues—does not tr...
Martin Horwood | 468 c166 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady referred approvingly to our Select Committee report. Does she agree with the following...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c161 (Link to this contribution) I assume that the hon. Gentleman has read the whole report. If so, he will have noticed that the Pub...
Grant Shapps | 468 c160-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: the issue of the day is the Government's competence—or lack of it. They say...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c163 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to continue. The second issue is that at the other end of the market—
Alistair Burt | 468 c163 (Link to this contribution) Why will the hon. Lady not take interventions?
Grant Shapps | 468 c161 (Link to this contribution) I assume that the Homes and Communities Agency will take over running the project. It has been run b...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c161 (Link to this contribution) We are happy to continue the investment in the Thames Gateway—indeed, to increase it and support the...
Grant Shapps | 468 c161-2 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey). I believed that we would...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c162 (Link to this contribution) I should like to remind the House of the report by the Select Committee on Communities and Local Gov...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c171-4 (Link to this contribution) It is very good that the Government are inching forward on such matters, but they are taking other p...
Margaret Moran | 468 c178 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman and I both spent time on the homes board in previous years. I agree with hi...
Lord Young of Cookham | 468 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) What I want is a provision in the Bill which obliges somebody to run a national mobility scheme. I h...
Nick Raynsford | 468 c174-7 (Link to this contribution) May I at the outset draw attention to the interests stated in my declaration in the Register of Memb...
Lord Young of Cookham | 468 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford), who has...
Lord Young of Cookham | 468 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree that if one is going to incentivise existing tenants to move out, it should be accompanied b...
Andrew Love | 468 c180 (Link to this contribution) One of the most interesting findings in the Hills report is that the number of re-lets in the public...
Lord Young of Cookham | 468 c180 (Link to this contribution) In the scenario that the hon. Gentleman has described, there would be a capital receipt, which could...
Lord Stunell | 468 c180 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed to the need to increase mobility, but surely someone wh...
Jeremy Corbyn | 468 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this opportunity to have another serious debate about housing needs. As one who represents...
Richard Younger-Ross | 468 c168 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend comment on the problem that a number of people on benefits face? When they try t...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c168-9 (Link to this contribution) This is a major issue for people who are on benefits. Traditionally, of course, councils provided th...
Baroness Teather | 468 c169 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Does he agree that the building of affordable housing for rent should i...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c170 (Link to this contribution) I understood that the Liberal Democrats had a national target for affordable housing provision. How ...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and that is related to the points that I intend to make about the general thrust of Governm...
Andrew Gwynne | 468 c171 (Link to this contribution) I listened to the answer that hon. Gentleman gave to the intervention from my hon. Friend the Member...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c170 (Link to this contribution) It is clear enough to me that one can make an estimate of housing needs and of what the construction...
Yvette Cooper | 468 c171 (Link to this contribution) May I point out to the hon. Gentleman that planning policy statement 3 came into force in April? It ...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c171 (Link to this contribution) The local authority in Stockport is trying to operate under controls put in place by the Government,...
Anne Main | 468 c195 (Link to this contribution) I share the right hon. Gentleman's concerns about the lack of family housing provided in many commun...
Mike Hancock | 468 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) It is for the hon. Lady to work that one out. I merely want to see the right thing done for people w...
Mike Hancock | 468 c192-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, or the girls for that matter. I am also curious to know who will set the punishments that will ...
Mike Hancock | 468 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, the standards have dropped, and most of the houses have been sold. We must examine the real ...
Richard Younger-Ross | 468 c198 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady talks of high density as if it is a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with high densit...
Anne Main | 468 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a delight to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds, West (John Battle). He mentioned density,...
John Battle | 468 c195-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Lady's intervention, because she reminds me that the Conservative Governm...
Maria Miller | 468 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to take part in this debate, because housing is probably one of the most important issu...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c186 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady please enlighten us as to how many new homes she thinks Basingstoke needs and how...
Maria Miller | 468 c186-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for such a useful intervention. I can tell her exactly how many new homes Basi...
Ken Purchase | 468 c188-90 (Link to this contribution) I hope that no one with any experience and knowledge of the conditions in their constituencies would...
John Battle | 468 c183 (Link to this contribution) On that point, would my hon. Friend not agree that even some housing associations have rents so high...
Jeremy Corbyn | 468 c183-5 (Link to this contribution) I was going to come on to housing associations in a moment, but I accept my right hon. Friend's poin...
Ken Purchase | 468 c190 (Link to this contribution) I never speak in order to offend, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was, in fact, quoting tenants' leaders. I ...
Speaker | 468 c190 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure that the hon. Member made an inadvertent remark. He may wish to reconsider that des...
Mike Hancock | 468 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) Let me first declare an interest as a member of a local authority that is still, fortunately, a hous...
Grant Shapps | 468 c159 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We all know that local communities can deliver affordable homes,...
Grant Shapps | 468 c159 (Link to this contribution) I am fascinated by the hon. Lady's intervention. References have been made to my ““No Way To 10k”” c...
Nick Hurd | 468 c159 (Link to this contribution) What is sad is that my constituents support the need for more affordable housing, but feel increasin...
Anne Main | 468 c160 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend is aware, the Minister came before the Select Committee at the end of October and ...
Iain Wright | 468 c245 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely correct, but I want to tackle the wider point about means-testing and rationing a...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c245 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Under-Secretary for that attempt to clarify the issue, but will he go a little further? ...
Alistair Burt | 468 c242 (Link to this contribution) Well, I joke from time to time. We might all have been fooled in 1997, but not any longer.
Iain Wright | 468 c243-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) for the kind words at the beginn...
Alistair Burt | 468 c242-3 (Link to this contribution) Ten wasted years, as my hon. Friend says—I wonder how long it will be before that phrase crops up. ...
Lynne Jones | 468 c241 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alistair Burt | 468 c242 (Link to this contribution) No, because of the shortage of time. I am opening up the debate about the relative places of renting...
Iain Wright | 468 c248-9 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. Let us contrast the Conservatives' attitude with the measures in the Bill. The...
Iain Wright | 468 c247-8 (Link to this contribution) The Bill already requires the agency to act as a partner to local authorities for development of the...
Iain Wright | 468 c245-7 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, but I have not got much time, so I shall not give way. My hon. Friends the Members for...
Alistair Burt | 468 c247 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for extending me a similar courtesy. If that is the case, will he look...
Margaret Moran | 468 c230-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that our aspiration for all our constituents is more affordable rented housing, but we mus...
Lynne Jones | 468 c230 (Link to this contribution) I empathise with the concern that my hon. Friend has raised, as many hon. Members would because of t...
Margaret Moran | 468 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has most articulately demonstrated my point: we cannot afford to have Tory-run counci...
Andrew Gwynne | 468 c231 (Link to this contribution) Is that not precisely why it is crucial that we have in place the new Homes and Communities Agency, ...
Margaret Moran | 468 c232 (Link to this contribution) The headline in the august journal Inside Housing is ““Homelessness High on Tories' Housing Agenda””...
Andy Slaughter | 468 c232 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill. The Chair of the Select Committee—it seems a long time ago now—noted the breadth...
John McDonnell | 468 c235-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, not for its contents, but for the opportunity it gives us to explain the housing...
Andy Slaughter | 468 c232-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that the Opposition have offered only the most trivial spin imaginable. They...
Lynne Jones | 468 c237 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may well be accused of advocating a vast increase in public expenditure, but does he ...
Alistair Burt | 468 c241 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has his time coming up, but I will give way.
Iain Wright | 468 c241 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alistair Burt | 468 c239-41 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with targets up front. Conservatives without targets built more houses than Labour with ...
Andrew Love | 468 c239 (Link to this contribution) Immediately after his speech rejecting the Mayor of London's 50 per cent. target, the hon. Member fo...
Alistair Burt | 468 c241 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Lady's interpretation of the word, but that is not what I meant. People feel t...
Lynne Jones | 468 c241 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about ““aspiring”” to home ownership as if it is somehow a more worthy thin...
Alistair Burt | 468 c241 (Link to this contribution) I accept entirely what the Minister has said. It would be helpful to clarify that point in Committee...
Iain Wright | 468 c241 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman comment on the comments that I made to Inside Housing, which appeared on las...
John McDonnell | 468 c237-8 (Link to this contribution) A number of hon. Members have mentioned the housing benefit that is being poured into the pockets of...
Alistair Burt | 468 c238-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell), who has finally put us in a posit...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c193 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wants to ensure that Labour remains in power, he is welcome to help with my ca...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c164-5 (Link to this contribution) The Milton Keynes partnership—a joint committee comprising the local authority and English Partnersh...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c167 (Link to this contribution) Many councils around the country have enormous problems with affordable housing, not least when coun...
Phyllis Starkey | 468 c163-4 (Link to this contribution) I would simply point out to the hon. Gentleman that, as he knows, only two interventions can be take...
John Battle | 468 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) I, too, warmly welcome the Housing and Regeneration Bill. I liked the emphasising of the word ““rege...
Jeremy Corbyn | 468 c147 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. New council houses are desperately needed all over Lond...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 468 c159 (Link to this contribution) I accept that the hon. Gentleman has some difficulty with being called a nimby. In order for us not ...
Andy Slaughter | 468 c158 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that this debate is not about HIPs, his local hospital or Thames Wate...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker. Opposition Members are not in the Chamber to listen to this impo...
Emily Thornberry | 468 c213 (Link to this contribution) I do not know, off the top of my head. [Interruption.] I am being prompted by one of my hon. Friends...
Andrew Gwynne | 468 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed I do. We talk a lot about rights and responsibilities, but unfortunately the tenants in the p...
David Wright | 468 c222 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about local authorities being the main providers of social rented housing. I do...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree that there is a huge problem. One of the reasons is that the regulations that decide what co...
Grant Shapps | 468 c159-60 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is on to something here, because the key point is that we all want more homes. The ar...
Paul Beresford | 468 c159 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Love) failed to note is the key point about local authorities...
Lord Garnier | 468 c146 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way. May I help her to help the hon. Member for Chorle...
Grant Shapps | 468 c158 (Link to this contribution) I have to inform the hon. Gentleman that it is a debate about the Housing and Regeneration Bill, so ...
Margaret Moran | 468 c230 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to say that this Government have got somewhere in the past 10 years. They have addresse...
Subjects
Construction Council housing Housing Finance Environment protection Infrastructure Landlord and tenant Low incomes Planning Social rented housing Regeneration Homes and Communities Agency
Legislation
Housing and Regeneration Bill 2007-08
Contains statistics
Yes
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