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Debate on bill on Monday, 21 July 2008, in the House of Commons.

Housing and Regeneration Bill

Housing and Regeneration Bill. Programme motion (No 2) on proceedings on consideration of Lords amendments and subsequent stages. Agreed to on division (253 votes to 175). Consideration of Lords amendments. Lords amendments considered and agreed to, the Commons being willing to waive their privileges in respect of Lords amendments Nos 27, 28, 31, 203, 228, 231, 238, 241, 245-250 and 267.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
479 c573-619 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Legislative stage
Lords amendments
Procedure
Programme motions
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
Thursday, 11 November 1999
Public acts
Housing Act 1996
Wednesday, 24 July 1996
Public acts
Proceeding contributions
Grant Shapps | 479 c584-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for taking on board some of the concerns that were raised in Committee and on R...
Lembit Opik | 479 c582 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Under-Secretary was busking it in his response to the right hon. Gentleman. I am no...
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Iain Wright | 479 c582 (Link to this contribution) There are several answers, which, I hope, will reassure the hon. Gentleman. First, he used the term ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 479 c582 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendment No. 8, to which the Under-Secretary referred, states that"““the Secretary of State m...
Iain Wright | 479 c582 (Link to this contribution) It will probably be the HCA in those circumstances. I hope that that reassures the right hon. Gentle...
Andrew Mackinlay | 479 c583 (Link to this contribution) Clause 45 allows the HCA to appoint an urban development corporation to act as its agent. Surely tha...
Iain Wright | 479 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I tend to disagree. What will happen will depend on the local circumstances of the area. It may ...
Grant Shapps | 479 c582 (Link to this contribution) I understand from the many amendments that we are considering that the Under-Secretary and his team ...
Iain Wright | 479 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) We are fairly happy with what we have achieved. The Bill already contained significant powers and co...
Iain Wright | 479 c580-1 (Link to this contribution) I disagree. As I said, there will be a close, strong partnership and a positive relationship between...
Iain Wright | 479 c594 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has raised an important point. As she will know, we recently announced that £200 mill...
Margaret Moran | 479 c593 (Link to this contribution) Many of us hark back to the good old days of Parker Morris standards. We know that good design has b...
Iain Wright | 479 c593 (Link to this contribution) I see that you are poised to pounce like a cat, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so I shall be careful to remain ...
Margaret Moran | 479 c593 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. In Committee, when we were discussing the establishment of this importa...
Iain Wright | 479 c593 (Link to this contribution) In many instances, we had to resolve to take amendments away and think about how they could be enact...
Grant Shapps | 479 c592-3 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Minister a little further? He has almost congratulated himself on listening, which i...
Iain Wright | 479 c592 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Gentleman has said and I respect his views, but I repeat that a fair prop...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 479 c592 (Link to this contribution) Surely the Minister will concede that it is deeply unsatisfactory that the bulk of the time availabl...
Iain Wright | 479 c592 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the hon. Gentleman, although I understand his comments with regard to the arcane fea...
Iain Wright | 479 c591-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall respond to hon. Members' comments about the amendments. The hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield...
Lembit Opik | 479 c588-9 (Link to this contribution) The fact that there are 717 amendments, as the Minister bragged before, means that there is more tha...
Lord Young of Cookham | 479 c591 (Link to this contribution) I hope to make the shortest speech on this group of amendments. When the Minister opened the debate...
Andrew Mackinlay | 479 c589-90 (Link to this contribution) I want to deal briefly with some amendments in the group. I particularly welcome the amendments that...
Lembit Opik | 479 c587 (Link to this contribution) Let me just say to the right hon. Gentleman that I love appropriate development. Our concern is that...
Nick Raynsford | 479 c586-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall perhaps surprise the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps) by saying that I agree w...
Lembit Opik | 479 c587-8 (Link to this contribution) There can be no more heart-warming sight than the admission by a Government Minister of his own huma...
Nick Raynsford | 479 c587 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman's view that local authorities should be genuine partners, ...
Grant Shapps | 479 c585-6 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has kindly corrected me. That is an extraordinary number. Perhaps a couple of new ones ...
Speaker | 479 c574 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No lobby.
Andrew Mackinlay | 479 c577 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I wonder whether you might be able to use your good offices...
Martin Horwood | 479 c579 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Under-Secretary for his comments. Let us take a hypothetical situation in which...
Iain Wright | 479 c579 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely certain what the hon. Gentleman is getting at. What is very clear, as I said in my...
Speaker | 479 c578 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendments Nos. 2 to 64, 201, 202, 205, 207, 208, 2...
Iain Wright | 479 c578-9 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments relates to part 1 of the Bill, which is concerned with the creation of the ...
Martin Horwood | 479 c580 (Link to this contribution) The Under-Secretary comes out with fine phrases, but the reality on the ground is different. Local a...
Lembit Opik | 479 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) I should like to press the point made my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood). Alt...
Iain Wright | 479 c580 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for clarifying that point. In this group of amendments, we are k...
Speaker | 479 c578 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House's attention to the fact that privilege is involved in Lords amendments Nos. 27, 28,...
Iain Wright | 479 c578 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
David Drew | 479 c606 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak narrowly to amendments Nos. 66 and 67, which I am delighted will be incorporated into ...
Dan Rogerson | 479 c605 (Link to this contribution) I bow to the hon. Gentleman's experience. He makes an important clarification of the situation we fa...
Andrew Love | 479 c605 (Link to this contribution) Although I agree in principle that a provision in the Bill will assist us, the hon. Gentleman might ...
David Drew | 479 c606 (Link to this contribution) I was about to thank my hon. Friend, but as she wants to intervene she can do her own song and dance...
Grant Shapps | 479 c602 (Link to this contribution) I understand and appreciate the right hon. Gentleman's comments, but does he agree that even though ...
Grant Shapps | 479 c605 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Gentleman if the message from my office about the visit did not get through....
Dan Rogerson | 479 c605 (Link to this contribution) There seems to have been an issue in that community land trusts know what they mean by that title, a...
Nick Raynsford | 479 c602-4 (Link to this contribution) I will not debate the adequacy of Report stage, given the large number of amendments. I have express...
Dan Rogerson | 479 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps) referred to the number of changes that we are see...
Iain Wright | 479 c595 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Iain Wright | 479 c594-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. As I said at the outset, the current framework provided ...
Iain Wright | 479 c595-9 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments is related to part 2 of the Bill, which establishes the new social housing ...
Speaker | 479 c595 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendments Nos. 66 to 168, 203, 204, 209, 211, 245,...
Grant Shapps | 479 c599-602 (Link to this contribution) Again, I broadly welcome this group of amendments, despite the fact that they come too thick and fas...
Iain Wright | 479 c594 (Link to this contribution) I am keen to proceed to the second group of amendments, but I will give way.
Andrew Mackinlay | 479 c594 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister's comments. Will he take this opportunity to encourage local authorities to t...
Iain Wright | 479 c617 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the hon. Gentleman's point. I have to say that on Report and elsewhere, my right hon...
Lembit Opik | 479 c617 (Link to this contribution) Without engaging in a detailed policy debate on the issue, does the Minister accept that whatever th...
Iain Wright | 479 c617 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in order to allow him to welcome it.
Iain Wright | 479 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I disagree. All local authorities can choose models that are appropriate to their circumstances,...
Lembit Opik | 479 c617 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the private investment for social housing achieved through the vehicle the Minister descri...
Iain Wright | 479 c618 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I have had questions and discussions with officials on...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 479 c618 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister liaise with his colleagues who are responsible for community cohesion, for instanc...
Iain Wright | 479 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) I will comment on some of the points raised by hon. Members. In general, I detect warm acceptance of...
Iain Wright | 479 c618 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Lembit Opik | 479 c613 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman says, the issue for my hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Paul Holmes) a...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 479 c613 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Under-Secretary on his epic, marathon handling of the Bill in the past few months...
Iain Wright | 479 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not expect that the guidance will prevent a local authority that has had a ballot on stock tran...
Bob Spink | 479 c612 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendments Nos. 169 to 171 allow local authorities to hold a ballot as soon as a notice is ser...
Lembit Opik | 479 c616 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. The 1.7 million people in need of housing—
Lembit Opik | 479 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, say that we feel some frustration that we cannot really consider the amendments in the g...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 479 c613-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. However, other hon. Members and I previous...
Lembit Opik | 479 c616 (Link to this contribution) The right to buy will not help the 1.7 million families in this country who are in need of social ho...
Iain Wright | 479 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for those comments; he makes an important point. If he will allow me, I...
Iain Wright | 479 c612 (Link to this contribution) Again, I appreciate what my hon. Friend is saying, and I respect his views on the matter. I reiterat...
Andrew Love | 479 c612 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his generosity. I want to follow up the comments of my right hon. Friend ...
Andrew Love | 479 c611 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Government have responded to this issue, which has been outstanding for ...
Nick Raynsford | 479 c611 (Link to this contribution) Let me pose to my hon. Friend a problem that may arise as a result of the new arrangement, which I w...
Iain Wright | 479 c611 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my hon. Friend says, and he makes some good points. However, as I am sure he agree...
Grant Shapps | 479 c612 (Link to this contribution) Following the interventions that the Under-Secretary has just taken, I wonder whether, in his curren...
Iain Wright | 479 c612 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point in connection with the A10 countries, and I will look i...
Linda Gilroy | 479 c608 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm what the Minister says; he has had a long-standing interest in ensuring that community...
Iain Wright | 479 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) May I finish my point? As I have discussed with my hon. Friend, whom I commend for her fantastic rep...
Iain Wright | 479 c607 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I shall comment briefly on some of the issues that have been raised. I ...
David Drew | 479 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) Of course I agree. It is important that we move on after quite a tortuous process, but it is better ...
Linda Gilroy | 479 c606 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, too, should accept some of the thanks for moving the matter forward. My thanks also ...
Speaker | 479 c608 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendments Nos. 170 to 200, 220 and 221, 223, 246 to 2...
Iain Wright | 479 c609-11 (Link to this contribution) Lords Amendments Nos. 169 to 171 address the concerns that Members of both Houses raised about the a...
Iain Wright | 479 c608 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for those kind comments. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew)...
Iain Wright | 479 c608 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 479 c618 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to consider Lords amendments Nos. 210, 213 to 219 and 222.
Iain Wright | 479 c618-9 (Link to this contribution) We come to the final group, which is made up of technical and minor amendments. I want to draw the H...
Lembit Opik | 479 c619 (Link to this contribution) Following the precedent set by the Minister, I should point out that he has now presented the House ...
Nick Raynsford | 479 c602 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the further amendments that we are considering, but I must correct the impression given by...
Lembit Opik | 479 c592 (Link to this contribution) I happen to agree with the specific concern of the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson). Will ...
Speaker | 479 c577 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not expect me to be able to explain what is happening and wh...
Subjects
Disability Construction Cooperation Council housing Design Audit Commission Housing Inspections Immigration Housing associations Homelessness Landlord and tenant Local government Planning permission Property transfer Older people Standards Regulation Social rented housing Trespass Tenants Tenants' rights Regeneration Homes and Communities Agency Tenant Services Authority Community land trusts
Legislation
Housing and Regeneration Bill 2007-08
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