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Debate on bill and Committee proceeding on Wednesday, 11 June 2008, in the House of Lords.

Housing and Regeneration Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding
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702 c197-248GC 
Session
2007-08
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Department for Communities and Local Government
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Committee stage
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House of Lords Grand Committee
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Filkin | 702 c200-1GC (Link to this contribution) I support what the noble Lord, Lord Best, said and the thrust of what the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwe...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c209-10GC (Link to this contribution) The letter proposing the amendment to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, of which...
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Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 702 c216GC (Link to this contribution) A question occurs to me, so I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, can illuminate me. Where there ...
Earl of Onslow | 702 c226-7GC (Link to this contribution) I do not begrudge the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, her nanosecond of glory in the slightest. She is ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c226GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 99A: 99A: Clause 81, page 38, line 21, at end insert— ““( ) are public authori...
Earl Cathcart | 702 c236GC (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend Lord Eccles and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. The chairman plus three d...
Lord Haskel | 702 c197GC (Link to this contribution) If there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as th...
Lord Best | 702 c197-200GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 97PA: 97PA: After Clause 61, insert the following new Clause— ““Power to exten...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c200GC (Link to this contribution) I have two amendments in this group at the more extreme end of the matter. They delete the ineligibi...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c202-4GC (Link to this contribution) I start by welcoming Members of the Committee to Part 2 of the Bill. We have looked forward to this ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c208GC (Link to this contribution) That answers the short point. I am sorry that this has taken eight minutes; I had hoped that it coul...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c208GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister, but I did send a note saying, ““This is to probe what is meant by ‘mainly’; is...
Lord Whitty | 702 c214-5GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 98A: 98A: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause— ““Extension of rem...
Lord Greaves | 702 c216GC (Link to this contribution) Briefly, I support everything that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, said. Sometimes that is true where y...
Lord Greaves | 702 c210-1GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 97Q: 97Q: Clause 70, page 34, line 16, leave out paragraph (b) The noble Lord...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c216-8GC (Link to this contribution) I look forward to my noble friend answering that difficult question. It is a relief when the questio...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c224-5GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord was not wrong, but I want to go further than that and make the simple point that the ...
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 702 c221-2GC (Link to this contribution) It gives me great pleasure to be associated with the amendment of my noble friend Lord Graham, and I...
Earl of Onslow | 702 c229-30GC (Link to this contribution) I know this is terribly important and screamingly complicated for anybody to understand. Before the ...
Earl of Onslow | 702 c232-3GC (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, withdraws her amendment, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady An...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c233GC (Link to this contribution) As the noble Baroness knows, a large number of local authority homes have been transferred to housin...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c239GC (Link to this contribution) It means that it is quite open to previous members of the Housing Corporation to be members of both ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c239GC (Link to this contribution) For the avoidance of doubt, how does membership of the Housing Corporation affect applicants for cha...
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 702 c237GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness. I am not suggesting that it should be a bar. It may look odd, but it giv...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c233-4GC (Link to this contribution) That is a slightly different point. Where does the remedy lie? I do not seek to argue—at least, not ...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c242-3GC (Link to this contribution) I am impressed by the interest this group of amendments has aroused. I thank everybody who has taken...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c243GC (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 101A to 10...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c239-42GC (Link to this contribution) I am pleased. Amendment No. 101C of the noble Lord, Lord Dixon-Smith, and the noble Earl, Lord Cath...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c246-7GC (Link to this contribution) I shall probably be the one who has to stop mid-sentence. I have a good deal of sympathy with the n...
Lord Mawson | 702 c247-8GC (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 104ZA seeks to encourage the Minister and her colleagues to look carefully at how the ...
Baroness Wilkins | 702 c245-6GC (Link to this contribution) Amendments Nos. 102A and 108A are in my name, and I shall speak to them briefly. Amendment No. 102A ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c201-2GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Best, has introduced what I would call the uninvited guest to the feast. Whethe...
Lord Best | 702 c205-6GC (Link to this contribution) I am enormously grateful to colleagues on all sides for their support. The only word of dissent revo...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c209GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness talked about powers, which I understand, but the clause is actually about transfe...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c208-9GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 97PE: 97PE: After Clause 68, insert the following new Clause— ““Transitional a...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c208GC (Link to this contribution) I am extremely sorry. I did not mean to imply that in the tone or content of what I said. We underst...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c206-7GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 97PC: 97PC: Clause 63, page 31, line 23, leave out ““or mainly”” The noble Ba...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c210GC (Link to this contribution) I do not have a precise timetable for this process, so I will have to write to the noble Viscount. W...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c212-3GC (Link to this contribution) I greatly enjoyed the restrained contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, on what he describe...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c223-4GC (Link to this contribution) In replying to this amendment, I think that I have been cast as the unwitting curmudgeon and I am no...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c223GC (Link to this contribution) A few months ago I met a gentleman whose daughter had given land to be used by a community land trus...
Lord Whitty | 702 c219GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the support of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves. I am particularly grateful to the Min...
Baroness Whitaker | 702 c227-8GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Earl, Lord Onslow, reminds me of my days on the Joint Committee on Human Rights, when righ...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 702 c225-6GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister and his colleagues, who have clearly taken the issue seriously. I read...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c237-9GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to Members of the Committee who have spoken in this debate, and I have drawn on their ...
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 702 c236GC (Link to this contribution) It has been quite complicated following the amendments through this group. The noble Baroness, Lady ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c235-6GC (Link to this contribution) I have seven amendments in the group. I shall start by sharing a message that I have just received o...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c243GC (Link to this contribution) This is a serious point and I know that I am being tedious today. On declaration of interest and the...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 702 c243GC (Link to this contribution) I will write on this important point. It is, I think, somewhere in Clause 81. It is a matter of proc...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c242GC (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Viscount replies, I thank the noble Lord for those comments. As regards the misbeha...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c248GC (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry to interrupt the noble Lord but the Division Bell has sounded. I suggest that the Hous...
Lord Colwyn | 702 c248GC (Link to this contribution) The Committee stands adjourned until Monday 16 June at 3.30 pm.
Baroness Whitaker | 702 c202GC (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to be a bit cold waterish about the amendment, particularly as I strongly support the pri...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c204-5GC (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the parallel with emergency powers holds good because we are in the middle of a ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c204GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is an instance of this having being done on the emergency powers Bill. Draft regulat...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c207-8GC (Link to this contribution) This amendment, in the context of Welsh housing, probes the extent of the Bill and the separation be...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c209GC (Link to this contribution) ““Functions”” includes ““powers””; I was using the words interchangeably as I spoke. I may well be a...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c216GC (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the proposal but add a word of caution. I heard what the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c214GC (Link to this contribution) I have no objection to the clause standing part subject to the typos being corrected. A cross-refere...
Lord Greaves | 702 c213-4GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that careful reply. It is probably true that these amendments are technical...
Lord Best | 702 c222GC (Link to this contribution) My name is added to Amendments Nos. 111 and 112 which, at the very least, gives us the satisfaction ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 702 c222-3GC (Link to this contribution) The poor noble Lord, Lord Bassam, is having a very hard time because we are all suspecting his motiv...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 702 c219-21GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 99: 99: Clause 80, page 37, line 38, after ““England,”” insert— ““( ) a commun...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c228-9GC (Link to this contribution) This is an important debate. I am grateful for the way in which it was opened, in competition, by th...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c230-2GC (Link to this contribution) The simple answer is that we have never considered that housing associations performed functions of ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c233GC (Link to this contribution) In Grand Committee, I have no alternative but to withdraw my amendment, but I want to make a couple ...
Baroness Hamwee | 702 c236GC (Link to this contribution) It is very difficult to probe the reasons for something. The words, ““membership of the Housing Corp...
Viscount Eccles | 702 c234GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 101: 101: Clause 83, page 39, line 1, leave out ““3”” and insert ““6”” The no...
Baroness Andrews | 702 c243-4GC (Link to this contribution) Before I address whether Clause 87 should stand part of the Bill, I should say that, since we are ex...
Earl Cathcart | 702 c244-5GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 102ZD: 102ZD: Clause 88, page 40, line 17, leave out subsection (1) and insert...
Subjects
Council housing Housing Land Human rights Housing associations Housing Corporation Landlord and tenant Local government Ownership Low incomes Public appointments Registration Standards Regulation Wales Social rented housing Transitional arrangements Rented housing Regeneration Homes and Communities Agency Tenant Services Authority
Legislation
Housing and Regeneration Bill 2007-08
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