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HANSARDHousing Benefit: Temporary AccommodationI thank the noble Viscount for his Answer. What my Question was really getting at was whether there has been an assessment of the adequacy of what is being allocated. Is it enough…28 Feb 2024HANSARDHousing Benefit: Temporary AccommodationI beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper and declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association.28 Feb 2024HANSARDHousing: Section 21 EvictionsMy Lords, I am very pleased to hear the Minister mention fairness. For renters, often struggling to make ends meet and facing losing their homes, access to a legal aid provider is…20 Feb 2024HANSARDLocal Authorities: Financial DifficultiesMy Lords, councils have been receiving money from the Government’s household support fund, which has provided many thousands of families with essential sharp-end help with their…14 Feb 2024HANSARDBiodiversity Gain Site Register (Financial Penalties and Fees) Regulations 2024My Lords, I will make just a short intervention as my noble friend will be leading on this. I have learned recently that some 20 councils have emerging plans or have adopted local…10 Jan 2024HANSARDSocial Housing: MouldI am pleased to see the noble Baroness back in her place; she has been missed. For this new legislation, the Government have sensibly constituted a Social Housing Quality Resident…10 Jan 2024HANSARDTributesMy Lords, I would love to join John in the rugby, for sure. It is a privilege to be asked to give these tributes on behalf of these Benches. The quality and professionalism of the…19 Dec 2023HANSARDRefugees: HomelessnessTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps, if any, they will take to mitigate the prevalence of homelessness among refugees, and its impact on local authorities, over the…13 Dec 2023HANSARDRefugees: HomelessnessI thank the noble Lord for that Answer. My concern was with recent Home Office data showing that around 90,000 outstanding decisions on older cases are forecast to be made before…13 Dec 2023HANSARDRefugees: HomelessnessI beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper and declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association.13 Dec 2023HANSARDLove Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report)My Lords, I am pleased to rise broadly to support what I consider to be the main thrust of the report commissioned by the most reverend Primates. I am not a good sleeper. Last…08 Dec 2023HANSARDHome-ownership RatesMy Lords, shared ownership is promoted by the Government and is designed to be a pathway to getting a secure home and a foot on the property ladder. Does the Minister agree with…06 Dec 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement 2023My Lords, amid such a body of economic expertise and experience, I intend to focus simply on some of the main headline-grabbing announcements on housing in the Autumn Statement.…29 Nov 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillI thank the Minister for his response to Motion L1, and particularly for reinforcing the weight and importance of NDMPs, so much so that he said that he felt they needed their own…23 Oct 2023HANSARDResidential Accommodation: Empty HomesMy Lords, there is ample evidence that the threshold for a council to prove that a home is empty is too high, either for compulsory purchase or, as the noble Baroness mentioned,…23 Oct 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I have listened to what the noble Earl has said today and what he put in his recent letter to us, and also to what was said by the Minister in the other place last week.…23 Oct 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillAt end insert “and do propose Amendments 44C, 44D and 44E as amendments to Amendment 44B—23 Oct 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, in view of the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, I will be much briefer than I intended, so we might ramble around a little. On Amendments 193 and 194 in the…06 Sept 2023HANSARDPrivate Sector Renters: Eviction ProtectionMy Lords, the system is just not working. It relies on the tenant applying for a fuel poverty grant and, as is clear from the statistics that my noble friend just gave, that…06 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, in the interests of balance, and despite the eloquence of the noble Lord, Lord Young, I am rising briefly to support street votes and commend the Government on staying…06 Sept 2023