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Debate on bill on Monday, 31 March 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Iain Wright. The answering member was Grant Shapps.

Housing and Regeneration Bill

Housing and Regeneration Bill. Ways and means resolution agreed to on question. Report stage. New Clauses 11 and 14 debated and added to the Bill. New Clauses 12, 13 and 15-28 added to the Bill. New Clause 1 negatived on division (263 votes to 210). New Clause 8 negatived on division (259 votes to 74). New Clause 32 negatived on division (278 votes to 186). New Schedules 1-3 added to the Bill. Queen's consent signified. Prince of Wales's consent signified. Third reading debate agreed to on question. Bill passed.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
474 c441-574 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Legislative stage
Third reading
Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Ways and means resolutions
Prince of Wales's consent
Queen's consent
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Greater London Authority Act 1999
Thursday, 11 November 1999
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Housing Act 1996
Wednesday, 24 July 1996
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Wednesday, 8 November 2006
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Proceeding contributions
Lembit Opik | 474 c442 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with the motion, but it is ironic that time is allocated for that one item but not...
Iain Wright | 474 c441-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Housing and Regeneration Bill, i...
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Iain Wright | 474 c501 (Link to this contribution) The review will be completed by spring 2009; I anticipate that recommendations arising from it will ...
Iain Wright | 474 c500 (Link to this contribution) I should also like to dispel the myth that registered social landlords are evil incarnate; I do not ...
John McDonnell | 474 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) A number of the issues that the Minister has just raised are straw men to be knocked down; no one ha...
Iain Wright | 474 c500 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way, let me quote from my right hon. Friend's written ministerial statement. These are...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c500 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way; he is being very generous. My point is simply that councils sho...
Iain Wright | 474 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) I have just explained the initiatives that we are putting in place. We cannot implement or change so...
Iain Wright | 474 c499 (Link to this contribution) Let me address that point, which relates to the central point of the debate, about what system we sh...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c499 (Link to this contribution) I only wish I could. However, I do not believe that what the Minister has described will happen; it ...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c498-9 (Link to this contribution) We need to shift the argument back to the Minister's point that the Government were not underfunding...
Graham Stuart | 474 c498 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, and I hear his points about investment in the housing ...
Speaker | 474 c497 (Link to this contribution) Order. Not me again. The hon. Gentleman should get his nomenclature right.
Iain Wright | 474 c498 (Link to this contribution) It sounds as though you have been very busy, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I want to dispel the myth that the...
Grant Shapps | 474 c498 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister share my dismay that the Government have built less council housing every year in ...
Iain Wright | 474 c498 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) made the excellent point ...
Lembit Opik | 474 c495 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, I should have said that I will not let the Conservative party off the hook. The hon. Me...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) That is a bit rich, coming from a party which, like the governing party, promised a referendum on th...
Iain Wright | 474 c496-7 (Link to this contribution) This is the first time that I have sparred over the Dispatch Box with the hon. Member for Peterborou...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c497 (Link to this contribution) Could the Minister therefore explain why your own study—the Department's own study published two wee...
Simon Hughes | 474 c495 (Link to this contribution) They are not the Opposition—they are just the Tories.
Lembit Opik | 474 c495 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to enter into a dialogue, but I cannot let the Opposition off the hook. [Hon. Members:...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c495 (Link to this contribution) It is appropriate to stick to our position. We are prepared to give the Government the benefit of th...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. We are prepared to support new clause 1, as we accept that there is consens...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c494 (Link to this contribution) That is quite untrue. I gave no such intimation, and I had no such thought. It is a gross misinterpr...
Alistair Burt | 474 c493 (Link to this contribution) May I make a bid to help matters along? Does my hon. Friend agree that no matter what the history ma...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) Sheffield is obviously hit by a plague of locusts on a regular basis, because the hon. Gentleman tak...
Lembit Opik | 474 c495 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may have forgotten that, two weeks ago—this was mentioned in the debate—the pilot...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c494 (Link to this contribution) I am happy fully to support new clause 1, given the hon. Gentleman's clarification. I pay tribute to...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c494 (Link to this contribution) If new clause 1 was accepted and we had an open, honest, democratic ballot, it would still say, ““Yo...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c492 (Link to this contribution) I shall make some progress and give way to the hon. Lady shortly, even though she has only just join...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c493 (Link to this contribution) I am proud that with the right to buy we gave ordinary working people a stake in their future. We ga...
Margaret Moran | 474 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) While the hon. Gentleman is still on the historical facts it would be interesting to know which loca...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) I think we have already established that unity is not necessarily in evidence among members of the p...
Paul Truswell | 474 c492 (Link to this contribution) It is no use the hon. Gentleman quoting statistics. Labour Members, like most Members of the House, ...
Speaker | 474 c492 (Link to this contribution) Order. Just for the record I did not do any of those things.
Paul Truswell | 474 c492 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c492 (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt your universal powers, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I probably agree with you on that poin...
Iain Wright | 474 c509 (Link to this contribution) I will, but let me say how disappointed I am to see the hon. Gentleman on the Back Benches rather th...
Alistair Burt | 474 c508 (Link to this contribution) Will the Under-Secretary give way?
Iain Wright | 474 c508 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that. The approach reflects the way in which the hon. Gentleman worked in Committe...
Iain Wright | 474 c508 (Link to this contribution) I am keen to reassure the hon. Gentleman. I reserve the right to consider the matter as flexibly as ...
Simon Hughes | 474 c510 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Am I right that, if we want to press new clause 1 or new cl...
Iain Wright | 474 c509 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I hope that I have made the Government's position ...
Iain Wright | 474 c509 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I hope he acknowledges that I have been keen throughout...
Alistair Burt | 474 c509 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Under-Secretary for that kind remark. It is now quarter past eight and we have ...
Simon Hughes | 474 c505 (Link to this contribution) North Southwark and Bermondsey.
Iain Wright | 474 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I disagree slightly with my right hon. Friend about that because all local authorities now have a cl...
Jeremy Corbyn | 474 c505 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way, and for the meeting that he held with a number of colleagues co...
Iain Wright | 474 c505 (Link to this contribution) Never mind. On new clause 29, I agree with the hon. Gentleman that sinking funds are a sensible ide...
Lembit Opik | 474 c508 (Link to this contribution) I offer the Under-Secretary a deal—I am not playing games with him. I do not believe that the Govern...
Iain Wright | 474 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I agree that it would be undesirable if a landlord or tenant ...
Simon Hughes | 474 c506 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Minister's considered response, but the problem is that some leases do not all...
Iain Wright | 474 c506 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point and during my time in the Department I have tried to deal wi...
Lembit Opik | 474 c507 (Link to this contribution) To finish the sentence, ““not press the amendments.”” I would love to comply, but I want clarificati...
Iain Wright | 474 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) I would certainly be happy to look at the matter on that basis because I am keen to ensure that we d...
Iain Wright | 474 c503 (Link to this contribution) That is a difficult one to answer, but I will be open and up front with the House. In the regulatory...
Iain Wright | 474 c503 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will therefore forgive me for moving on quickly. I would say that there are two s...
Lembit Opik | 474 c503 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right to spend time on this, because it is one of the key elements in the Bill. Can ...
Iain Wright | 474 c503 (Link to this contribution) I will give way for one last time, and then I want to move on to new clause 1.
Frank Dobson | 474 c504 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that everyone welcomes the idea of free and fair elections—not just in Zimbabwe, but in th...
Iain Wright | 474 c504 (Link to this contribution) Certainly on my hon. Friend's first two points, I am keen to work with him and think that he has a f...
Iain Wright | 474 c501 (Link to this contribution) I am keen to move on. I give notice that this is the last time I will give way on this point.
Iain Wright | 474 c501 (Link to this contribution) I also share that sense of urgency; that is why I am keen to see the Homes and Communities Agency on...
John McDonnell | 474 c501 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Minister needs to take this message back elsewhere. What he has said means that our cons...
Iain Wright | 474 c501 (Link to this contribution) Given my hon. Friend's importance with regard to the new clause, I will certainly give way.
Iain Wright | 474 c502 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my hon. Friend is saying and respect his views. I would point out to him that in t...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c501 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend. Another view is that 2.8 million people in council housing are...
Iain Wright | 474 c502 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I am making it clear to my hon. Friend that I am not saying that councils do not have a ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 474 c502 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend appreciate that the amendments are in line with Labour party policy as passed at...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c489 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. We keep being told that we should empower people to take control of their own lives, yet...
Lembit Opik | 474 c489 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend therefore agree that it was ironic that the right hon. Member for Greenwich and ...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) In fact, the Government have quite a clear view on that. The Department's own guidance, which was co...
Mike Hancock | 474 c489 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being extremely generous in giving way. Has he ever seen the Government's indicati...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to do so. Of course, it is hard to prove in some ways, because if tenants have ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c491 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. What is not to like about the hon. Gentleman when he responds to the latest big policy initi...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c490 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Paul Holmes), who makes his predecessor...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c490 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain exactly which part of my comments he found distasteful or extreme? W...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) I would not want to give the House the impression that I found anything distasteful or extreme. I ju...
Mike Hancock | 474 c488 (Link to this contribution) During my hon. Friend's comments, the former Housing Minister, the right hon. Member for Greenwich a...
Kelvin Hopkins | 474 c486 (Link to this contribution) I agree with hon. Gentleman. Does he accept that many housing associations now amalgamate into large...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c486-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point, which was next in my scribbled notes. In the shotgun wedd...
Adam Price | 474 c483 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with the hon. Gentleman. I have seen the figures for England. I do not believe that a ...
Paul Truswell | 474 c483 (Link to this contribution) Is that not the crucial point? Even if we are talking about a plurality of provision, 2,500 council ...
John McDonnell | 474 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) There is no accountability for many of my constituents, because they are so desperate in their homel...
Adam Price | 474 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Clearly there are means of deepening tenant participation in all di...
Adam Price | 474 c483 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. As the hon. Member for Great Grimsby said, the Government's study, base...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c478 (Link to this contribution) Surely the right hon. Gentleman is being somewhat churlish about, for instance, my right hon. Friend...
David Leslie Taylor | 474 c478 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend, whose knowledge and reputation on this subject are without parallel in the Hou...
Nick Raynsford | 474 c478 (Link to this contribution) If that were the Government's policy, I would agree with my hon. Friend; but it is not their policy,...
Lembit Opik | 474 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Perhaps the Minister is getting some sense of the cross-party con...
Nick Raynsford | 474 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) I start by agreeing with the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) on his opening remarks, i...
Lembit Opik | 474 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. As the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire—a Labour Member—points out, on the basis of...
Lembit Opik | 474 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) The Minister violently agrees with that assessment. My hon. Friend, in common with others who have s...
David Leslie Taylor | 474 c475 (Link to this contribution) On a point of clarification, the situation is worse than that. The average number of council houses ...
Dai Havard | 474 c481 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman has mentioned my constituency, may I just say that while much of the provision...
Adam Price | 474 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Gentleman. I do not wish to embarrass him politically by saying...
Lembit Opik | 474 c482 (Link to this contribution) As there is a coalition in Wales between Labour and Plaid Cymru, what does the hon. Gentleman imagin...
Adam Price | 474 c482 (Link to this contribution) I do not have a crystal ball to give me greater understanding of the views in the Labour party in Wa...
Nick Raynsford | 474 c479 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the position varies from area to area, and that Government should listen to the views o...
Lynne Jones | 474 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend talks about an injection of private funding as if that is somehow cost-free. Is...
Nick Raynsford | 474 c480 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not going to defend the housing record of Birmingham city council, which is very unsa...
Adam Price | 474 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) I rise to add my voice to the polyphony of support from all parts of the House for new clauses 1 and...
Nick Raynsford | 474 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had waited a little longer, he would have heard me say some very nice things a...
Simon Hughes | 474 c479 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the picture is mixed, in that tenants in different places ...
Speaker | 474 c442 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Under-Secretary can do that when we move on to the Bill.
Iain Wright | 474 c442 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but I take issue with him on several matters. First, we...
Nick Raynsford | 474 c449 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for those kind remarks, and may I return the compliment by...
Iain Wright | 474 c449 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my right hon. Friend, but first may I pay tribute to him on the Floor of the Hous...
Iain Wright | 474 c449 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was anxious to answer the question that time, but I will ...
Simon Hughes | 474 c448 (Link to this contribution) I have had a hint, but it would be helpful if the Minister could tell us the answer. Also, how many ...
Speaker | 474 c448 (Link to this contribution) I would not like the Minister to be led astray, so before he answers, let me say that that is not th...
Simon Hughes | 474 c448 (Link to this contribution) I am not trying to delay the Minister—he knows we think he is a good bloke—but he is beginning to em...
Grant Shapps | 474 c448 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will know that we had a good debate in Committee on all 242 clauses but, to our amazeme...
Iain Wright | 474 c448 (Link to this contribution) I take the point that the hon. Gentleman and others are making. I am proud of the Bill, so I am keen...
Simon Hughes | 474 c447 (Link to this contribution) Just to be clear, so that we can save time later, can the Minister tell us how many Opposition amend...
Iain Wright | 474 c447 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, which I will mention when I speak to Gove...
Iain Wright | 474 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) Those are two important questions. On the first, there was detailed—forensic, I would say—scrutiny o...
Lembit Opik | 474 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) I hope that you will bear with me, Mr. Speaker, while I make my final procedural point about the tim...
Iain Wright | 474 c447 (Link to this contribution) I reiterate the point that I have already made: we are not amending major parts of the Bill out of t...
Bob Spink | 474 c447 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for generously giving way. New clause 11 refers to the ““status of exi...
Iain Wright | 474 c443 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 474 c443-6 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 12—Shared ownership...
Iain Wright | 474 c446 (Link to this contribution) You rightly pulled me up, Mr. Speaker, on my inappropriate and somewhat hasty answer to the point th...
Mike Hancock | 474 c462 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this is virtually the last chance for some local authorities? If ...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Money is being taken out of the pocket of council tenants and out of the ho...
Lynne Jones | 474 c461 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about the amount of money that has been stolen out of counci...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) Enormous amounts of money have been spent. I do not wish to make a judgment on Birmingham—that is up...
John Hemming | 474 c465 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's concern about children growing up in homeless, rather than roofless, ci...
John McDonnell | 474 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) The House sometimes gets a bit nauseating in its self-congratulations, but my right hon. Friend the ...
Robert Syms | 474 c462-4 (Link to this contribution) In introducing the debate and the programme motion, the Minister talked about the Public Bill Commit...
John Hemming | 474 c460 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's concern about the ludicrous way in which one-sided arguments are made i...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c458-60 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to new clause 1, amendment No. 5 and new clause 8. My hon. Friend the Minister told ...
Iain Wright | 474 c449 (Link to this contribution) I should like to move on, but I will give way to the hon. Gentleman first.
Iain Wright | 474 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made an important point. I shall try to make that clear throughout my speech....
Lembit Opik | 474 c450 (Link to this contribution) I am going to help the Minister to move on. I agree that the Government seem to have listened to som...
Lord Young of Cookham | 474 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) In response to what the Minister said at the beginning of his speech, may I say that it might have b...
Michael Meacher | 474 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept that, and it is the background to the point I am about to make. Given the huge and sw...
Lembit Opik | 474 c472-4 (Link to this contribution) No. The carrot comes before the stick. New clause 11 stands, somewhat incongruously, at the centre ...
Lembit Opik | 474 c472 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by giving the Minister some support.
David Drew | 474 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) I do agree. I helped to set up Home-Start, and I appreciate its value as an alternative to Sure Star...
John Hemming | 474 c471 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way at this late stage in his speech. He mentioned th...
David Drew | 474 c471 (Link to this contribution) This is the last time that I shall give way in what was to have been a very short speech.
David Drew | 474 c471 (Link to this contribution) I shall take that as a rhetorical question. I have given way so often that what was to have been a v...
David Leslie Taylor | 474 c471 (Link to this contribution) What does my hon. Friend think is the reason for the overt hostility to council house building? In t...
David Drew | 474 c471 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I have to say that I have always found there to be an element of insider trading, becau...
David Drew | 474 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) I was not here to hear what my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby said, and he is not here to ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c470 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a distinguished record on discussing such issues on behalf of his constituent...
Kelvin Hopkins | 474 c471 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with everything my hon. Friend says, but does he not accept that without the arm-tw...
David Drew | 474 c469 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief because much, if not all, of what I want to say has been said. I am afraid that the...
David Drew | 474 c469-70 (Link to this contribution) I will not go into how we feel about the Conservatives. The easy way for them to achieve what they w...
John McDonnell | 474 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) It has catastrophic effects for children, their families and the wider community. There is a continu...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 474 c467 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful case, but surely he would not want inadvertently to mislead the ...
Mike Hancock | 474 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) is not alone in his experience in his surg...
Iain Wright | 474 c572 (Link to this contribution) May I point out to the hon. Gentleman that he has not once mentioned the creation of Oftenant? Are t...
Grant Shapps | 474 c572 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to take up other Members' time. I will simply say that it is difficult to understand w...
Iain Wright | 474 c570 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend has mentioned that. She is a champion of trying to prevent and minimis...
Grant Shapps | 474 c570-2 (Link to this contribution) The Bill initially contained more than 300 clauses, and on Second Reading I mentioned its size; litt...
Simon Hughes | 474 c574 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance as a result of frustration. I apprecia...
Speaker | 474 c574 (Link to this contribution) In all these matters, the initiative lies with the Government. There may be occasions on which they ...
Lembit Opik | 474 c572-3 (Link to this contribution) I enjoyed serving on the Committee with the Minister. I think that he has genuinely listened. Above ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 474 c573-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Minister on a very sure-footed performance. I say that while his boss, the Minist...
Grant Shapps | 474 c524 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the Minister's consensual approach to the Bill—we had the same approach in Committee—bu...
Iain Wright | 474 c568 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Before I begin my substantive remarks, I t...
Simon Hughes | 474 c568 (Link to this contribution) I will ask a question that I tried to ask previously because the Under-Secretary will now be allowed...
Iain Wright | 474 c568 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the information to hand at the moment, but I am sure we can tally that up at some poin...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 474 c568 (Link to this contribution) The Minister took on board the most important amendment, which dealt with including sustainability a...
Iain Wright | 474 c569 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend and the valiant manner in which she battled about that conc...
Iain Wright | 474 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) For my part, I thank my right hon. Friend for all the personal assistance that he has given me on th...
Nick Raynsford | 474 c569 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend personally for the extremely careful attention that he gave to those issues a...
Margaret Moran | 474 c570 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that the debates in Committee were useful. One of them was about potenti...
Grant Shapps | 474 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made an excellent point. It should be possible for community land trusts to c...
Margaret Moran | 474 c518 (Link to this contribution) I am a little confused. Could the hon. Gentleman be a little more explicit about the obstacle in tha...
Grant Shapps | 474 c518 (Link to this contribution) I accept that entirely. They also enable people to shape their communities as they wish. The CLT tha...
Simon Hughes | 474 c518 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that, along with friends, I have supported his proposal. We are keen fo...
Grant Shapps | 474 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman's comments. I have to let the Minister know that I am kee...
Jeremy Corbyn | 474 c519 (Link to this contribution) A number of interventions have drawn attention to the very good principle behind housing co-operativ...
Martin Horwood | 474 c516 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has put his finger on one of the key problems with the Bill. In trying to reassure the ...
Iain Wright | 474 c516 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely certain whether the hon. Gentleman was in the House when I mentioned the issue in ...
David Drew | 474 c517 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right about the Labour support for community land trusts. As someone who has w...
Grant Shapps | 474 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) I should like to sing the praises of new clause 32, which I think will have some backing in all part...
Margaret Moran | 474 c523-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's passion for and commitment to community land trusts is in no doubt. Will he underta...
Iain Wright | 474 c524 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give that pledge, because I am passionate about ensuring that CLTs work. I do not thin...
Dan Rogerson | 474 c524 (Link to this contribution) I was hoping to make a speech, but it seems that time is against us this evening. The situation in m...
Iain Wright | 474 c524 (Link to this contribution) I am keen to meet the hon. Gentleman to talk about that, because I want these things to work. My con...
Iain Wright | 474 c522-3 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point. The presumption is always to have brownfield development, and we have be...
Jeremy Corbyn | 474 c521-2 (Link to this contribution) On the sustainability of sites, which the Minister has referred to a number of times, I am concerned...
Iain Wright | 474 c523 (Link to this contribution) I reiterate what I said about my respect for my hon. Friend on this matter. I am keen to see CLTs wo...
David Drew | 474 c523 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his comments, and I would ask him to bear something in mind if it is poss...
Iain Wright | 474 c521 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for the sensitive manner in which he advanced his case in Commit...
Nick Hurd | 474 c521 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been passionate about the sustainability requirements on the HCA. May I press him t...
Iain Wright | 474 c521 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way to the hon. Gentleman, I shall rise to the bait: the hon. Member for Montgomeryshi...
Iain Wright | 474 c521 (Link to this contribution) Placing sustainable development at the heart of what the agency does by including that in its object...
Iain Wright | 474 c520 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to be ruled out of order—that sounds like a speech on Second Reading—but we have not been...
Lembit Opik | 474 c520-1 (Link to this contribution) That would mean an increase of 239,840 a year on what is being built at the moment. Hon. Members sho...
Martin Horwood | 474 c520 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree that homes should not be just plonked in fields, but I warn the Minister that that...
Iain Wright | 474 c520 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Although the rhetoric has been about 3 million new homes, I...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 474 c520 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for accepting my amendment in Committee. It is indeed important to align housin...
Iain Wright | 474 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) I had not intended to speak to this group of amendments, as I wanted right hon. and hon. Members to ...
Grant Shapps | 474 c519 (Link to this contribution) There would be no direct impact one way or the other, but I pay tribute to the work of co-operatives...
Martin Horwood | 474 c513-5 (Link to this contribution) I should like to speak in support of new clauses 32 and 33, amendments Nos. 175, 229 and 233 and any...
Iain Wright | 474 c515 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for taking up the hon. Gentleman's time. I am listening to his arguments closely and I a...
Speaker | 474 c511-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 32— Definition of ‘community l...
Speaker | 474 c510 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct. When we get to nine o'clock, the Chair will have to decide exactly wh...
Iain Wright | 474 c511 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Lembit Opik | 474 c515 (Link to this contribution) To respond to what the Minister said, I see that my hon. Friend has assiduously read the reports of ...
Martin Horwood | 474 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support; that is exactly the point that I am making. If we f...
Martin Horwood | 474 c515 (Link to this contribution) My principal concern is about powers that are exactly analogous to those held by other quangos—power...
Iain Wright | 474 c498 (Link to this contribution) I expected better of the hon. Gentleman, whom I respect a lot. People in social housing had to conte...
Lembit Opik | 474 c508 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the Under-Secretary is saying that we will have a statutory instrument Committee, ...
David Leslie Taylor | 474 c483 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was talking about accountability. Is not a pitiable deception often peddled durin...
Simon Hughes | 474 c455-8 (Link to this contribution) I, too, shall be brief, although these are large matters that affect huge numbers of people. I belie...
Simon Hughes | 474 c454 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that some councils have supported their tenants in remaining co...
Lembit Opik | 474 c469 (Link to this contribution) How did the hon. Gentleman feel when he heard the hon. Member for Poole (Mr. Syms)—a Conservative Me...
Speaker | 474 c509 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have been fairly tolerant for a little while. Perhaps the Under-Secretary should now return...
Lynne Jones | 474 c502 (Link to this contribution) Given my hon. Friend's assurances, would he care to hazard a guess as to how many additional council...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c504 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend; it is good to find that he is listening. He did a good job of ...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c484-6 (Link to this contribution) The fact that I wish to address my comments to new clauses 1 and 8 will come as no surprise, given t...
Paul Robert Holmes | 474 c476 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to let the Government off the hook too easily there. There was a huge peak in building...
Austin Mitchell | 474 c462 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Another year's delay is a pistol held directly to the head not only of tenants but of ma...
Michael Meacher | 474 c452-4 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of sympathy with what the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George...
Iain Wright | 474 c449 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that contribution. My right hon. Friend makes the point well that we have been a l...
Mike Hancock | 474 c467-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that intervention. I had not reached Tony Blair's part and his appalling treatment of loca...
Iain Wright | 474 c524-5 (Link to this contribution) I reiterate the need to future-proof the Bill to ensure that innovative products that will be introd...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Audit Accountancy Companies Construction Council housing Housing Finance Domestic abuse Landlord and tenant Local government Ownership Low incomes Sustainable development Victims Social rented housing Repairs and maintenance Tenancy agreements Tenants' rights Subsidies Regeneration Possession rights Homes and Communities Agency Tenant Services Authority
Legislation
Housing and Regeneration Bill 2007-08
Housing Act 1985
Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
Housing Act 1988
Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
Link
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