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Debate on bill on Friday, 26 June 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Jacqui Lait. The answering member was Baroness Winterton of Doncaster.

Leaseholders' Rights Bill

Leaseholders' Rights Bill. Second reading debate. Motion that Bill be read a second time withdrawn. Bill withdrawn.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
494 c1069-97 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Leaseholders' Rights Bill.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1093-6 (496 3-4MC) (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for making that point, and I assure him that we would look into it—and, no do...
Andrew Dismore | 494 c1089 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has referred to big contracts, which I mentioned earlier. Barnet Homes has an e...
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Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) I certainly hear what my hon. Friend says, and I understand that there can sometimes be that difficu...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way to me again. She will appreciate that in the ca...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's point, and, as I have said, I will consider it. I presume that when a ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1089 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's point follows on from the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. D...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1090 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Lady explain how the leaseholder's right to obtain other quotations or other cont...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1092 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge the hon. Lady's point, but as I say, there is that distinction in the 2002 Act between...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1092 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady might like to know that Broomleigh had one or two blocks that were full of publi...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, the tribunal system is obviously meant to provide people with a form of red...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1091 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has been most generous in engaging in debate, and I hope that our interventions...
Simon Hughes | 494 c1096 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Deputy Speaker, I apologised to your predecessor in the Chair for having left the Chamber to att...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1093 (Link to this contribution) I rise simply to lay down a marker. Following the Custins v. Hearts of Oak court case, in 1967 a Lab...
Simon Hughes | 494 c1096-7 (Link to this contribution) The part that I heard was not very helpful; I can say that without having heard the other part. [Int...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I hope that some of the changes that I have outlined will help to improve the position.
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1097 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, may I congratulate the Minister on her mammoth speech, even though it w...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) In many senses, the Bill is a result of the failure of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002....
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1085-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) on her success in bringing the B...
Robert Neill | 494 c1082-4 (Link to this contribution) I see that she nods to confirm that, and so I think we can give it our "in principle" support, in th...
Willie Rennie | 494 c1081 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) was keen to participate ...
Robert Neill | 494 c1082 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) for promoting the Bill, and I c...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I have cases where people have bought a property after having done all the searches and were then to...
Andrew Dismore | 494 c1078-81 (Link to this contribution) That clearly should not happen. The social sector leaseholders working party was reconstituted by t...
Andrew Dismore | 494 c1077-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) on securing a place in the ballot and on in...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1086 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Lady moves through her speech, will she differentiate between the rights that are ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Lady's point, and I shall write to her with further details. Obviously, there ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1088 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, if there were a challenge the landlord would have to show that he had taken the ...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1088 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is most courteous in giving way again. I do not wish to press the matter, but i...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I would certainly be grateful for any further information that the hon. Gentleman can supply. I sho...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1087 (Link to this contribution) Our proposal is that the Tenant Services Authority should regulate property within the definition of...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I am hugely grateful to the Minister for giving way, and obviously I do not want to turn this debate...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly make every effort to do so. On the question that the hon. Member for Bromley and ...
Robert Neill | 494 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for her reference to the concerns about the 2002 Act, and I acknowledg...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I start by declaring an interest. I am a pr...
Simon Hughes | 494 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) I want to put on the record how supportive the hon. Lady was last year when my private Member's Bill...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I agree entirely. In fact, in due course I shall menti...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Lady not simply for introducing the Bill but for her work over many years....
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I promise that I am not planning to speak until he gets ba...
Simon Hughes | 494 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I was around at the time, just about, and I remember that people were given bad advice. The mood was...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right. I suspect that when the legislation was written, there was no con...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1073 (Link to this contribution) But I am happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is about to turn this into a political debate....
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not. I entirely agree with the hon. Lady that both private and public sector leaseholders...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) One of the problems of discussing leasehold is that we become involved in hugely complex and technic...
Robert Neill | 494 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for her plug for my past existence. I, too, have Broomleig...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. He draws a clear contrast between the treatment of peopl...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1075-7 (Link to this contribution) I sometimes wish that the ingenuity that goes into dreaming up these spurious charges was applied to...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1075 (Link to this contribution) Does it surprise the hon. Lady to hear of a situation concerning the Stadium housing association in ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. and hon. Friends in the Department of Energy and Climate Change will li...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c1088 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend elaborate, not for the benefit of the House but for the benefit of leasehol...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution) I will attempt to. I know that there are, for example, exceptions for large-scale contracts that are...
Andrew Dismore | 494 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) It is not just a question of local authorities. We could consider the matter in the context of the w...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1091 (Link to this contribution) The Minister might remember my reading out the experience of the leaseholders of Orbit South, whose ...
Jacqui Lait | 494 c1087 (Link to this contribution) What the Minister just said was carefully worded. Did she mean that the Tenant Services Authority wi...
Subjects
Costs Housing Leasehold Landlords Public sector Property Standards Social rented housing Repairs and maintenance Tenants
Legislation
Leaseholders' Rights Bill 2008-09
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