To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help ensure that landlords comply with improvement notices issued by local authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help ensure that landlords comply with improvement notices issued by local authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) improvement and (b) prohibition notices were issued by Health and Safety Executive inspectors to operators of offshore oil and gas installations in each year since 2016-17; and how many of those notices were related to safety maintenance...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) improvement and (b) prohibition notices were issued by Health and Safety Executive inspectors to operators of offshore oil and gas installations in each year since 2016-17; and how many of those notices were related to safety maintenance...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of March 2019 research by Generation Rent which found that local authorities surveyed had issued improvement notices to private landlords in only 5 per cent of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of March 2019 research by Generation Rent which found that local authorities surveyed had issued improvement notices to private landlords in only 5 per cent of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the rate of prosecution for failure to comply with a notice issued under section 35 of the Housing Act 2004.

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To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the rate of prosecution for failure to comply with a notice issued under section 35 of the Housing Act 2004.

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I thank the Minister for his reply. I shall certainly read very carefully what he said and will weigh it up and see how it works when we come to debate Amendment No. 51, which concerns primates as pets. That will allow us to test in reality whether Clause 9, as currently drafted, has...

I thank the Minister for his reply. I shall certainly read very carefully what he said and will weigh it up and see how it works when we come to debate Amendment No. 51, which concerns primates as pets. That will allow us to test in reality whether Clause 9, as currently drafted, has...

moved Amendment No. 47:"Page 7, line 41, at end insert—" ““(   )   The recipient of an improvement notice may, within 21 days of its issue, lodge with the inspector’s appointing authority a statement of the provisions that he feels are unreasonable; and such a statement will not preclude attempts to meet those provisions but may be...

moved Amendment No. 47:"Page 7, line 41, at end insert—" ““(   )   The recipient of an improvement notice may, within 21 days of its issue, lodge with the inspector’s appointing authority a statement of the provisions that he feels are unreasonable; and such a statement will not preclude attempts to meet those provisions but may be...

I shall deal with the amendments in reverse order. Amendment No. 48 proposes that we should adopt in the Bill a similar approach to that in existing farm animal legislation for both farmed and non-farmed animals, making it an offence not to comply with an improvement notice. That situation was explored at the...

I shall deal with the amendments in reverse order. Amendment No. 48 proposes that we should adopt in the Bill a similar approach to that in existing farm animal legislation for both farmed and non-farmed animals, making it an offence not to comply with an improvement notice. That situation was explored at the...

moved Amendment No. 50:"After Clause 10, insert the following new clause—" ““OFFERING ANIMALS AS PRIZES (1)   A person commits an offence if he offers or gives an animal to another person as a prize. (2)   Subsection (1) does not apply where the prize is offered or given in a family context.”” The noble Baroness...

moved Amendment No. 50:"After Clause 10, insert the following new clause—" ““OFFERING ANIMALS AS PRIZES (1)   A person commits an offence if he offers or gives an animal to another person as a prize. (2)   Subsection (1) does not apply where the prize is offered or given in a family context.”” The noble Baroness...

I have learnt one thing in your Lordships’ House; that is, never to answer technical questions about where a law will and will not apply. I will most certainly write to the noble Baroness about it. I am advised that there are no grandfather rights. The duty of care will take immediate effect....

I have learnt one thing in your Lordships’ House; that is, never to answer technical questions about where a law will and will not apply. I will most certainly write to the noble Baroness about it. I am advised that there are no grandfather rights. The duty of care will take immediate effect....

I hate the phrase ““hobby farmers””. Hobby farmers do not exist—they are either farmers or they are not farmers.

I hate the phrase ““hobby farmers””. Hobby farmers do not exist—they are either farmers or they are not farmers.

There is another group—domestic individual members of a non-domesticated species. I shall try to deploy the argument around that and show that the amendments do not add anything to the Bill. I understand the concern expressed by the noble Baroness in proposing her amendment. For example, a giraffe that is born and...

There is another group—domestic individual members of a non-domesticated species. I shall try to deploy the argument around that and show that the amendments do not add anything to the Bill. I understand the concern expressed by the noble Baroness in proposing her amendment. For example, a giraffe that is born and...

Can the Minister, in adding to the list, consider the position of alpacas and llamas? At the moment, they are outside being considered as farmed animals, although there are a lot of alpacas in our country. I know that when the foot and mouth outbreak occurred, there was great concern because...

Can the Minister, in adding to the list, consider the position of alpacas and llamas? At the moment, they are outside being considered as farmed animals, although there are a lot of alpacas in our country. I know that when the foot and mouth outbreak occurred, there was great concern because...

I can add goats to that list, because a lot of people keep a couple of goats in their back garden and they are not registered.

I can add goats to that list, because a lot of people keep a couple of goats in their back garden and they are not registered.

Presumably the costs would be recoverable only if the person won the case.

Presumably the costs would be recoverable only if the person won the case.

I am grateful to the Minister for his response. On Amendment No. 48, to which I spoke on behalf of my noble friend Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, I will obviously have to let my noble friend read what the Minister has said. The Minister referred to the discussions in another place. I remember that...

I am grateful to the Minister for his response. On Amendment No. 48, to which I spoke on behalf of my noble friend Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, I will obviously have to let my noble friend read what the Minister has said. The Minister referred to the discussions in another place. I remember that...

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

It has been interesting to listen to noble Lords and their convictions. I wonder whether the noble Lord, Lord Bilston, will consider moving his amendment, because it seems to me that the prohibition on goldfish exists in the Bill as it stands, let alone in the amendment. We have five amendments grouped...

It has been interesting to listen to noble Lords and their convictions. I wonder whether the noble Lord, Lord Bilston, will consider moving his amendment, because it seems to me that the prohibition on goldfish exists in the Bill as it stands, let alone in the amendment. We have five amendments grouped...

I understand the noble Baroness’s heart-tugging concerns about primates. Primates are like us in so many ways. However, the thought of reciprocal nit-picking is a stripe beyond which I would perhaps be prepared to go. The noble Baroness said that the codes of practice would not be legally binding. I will be interested...

I understand the noble Baroness’s heart-tugging concerns about primates. Primates are like us in so many ways. However, the thought of reciprocal nit-picking is a stripe beyond which I would perhaps be prepared to go. The noble Baroness said that the codes of practice would not be legally binding. I will be interested...

moved Amendment No. 51:"After Clause 10, insert the following new clause—" ““PROHIBITION ON KEEPING CERTAIN ANIMALS (1)   The appropriate national authority shall by regulations prohibit the keeping at— (a)   domestic premises, or (b)   other premises, of any animals of a kind specified in the regulations, which shall include primates. (2)   For the purposes of subsection (1)(b),...

moved Amendment No. 51:"After Clause 10, insert the following new clause—" ““PROHIBITION ON KEEPING CERTAIN ANIMALS (1)   The appropriate national authority shall by regulations prohibit the keeping at— (a)   domestic premises, or (b)   other premises, of any animals of a kind specified in the regulations, which shall include primates. (2)   For the purposes of subsection (1)(b),...