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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the noble Baroness for her comments and congratulate her on taking through the legislation. At the outset, when she was taking the legislation through your Lordships’…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 170 in the name of my noble friend Lord Gascoigne. As I indicated in the previous group, I sat on the CIL review 10 years ago with Liz Peace, whom…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I want to speak to this group of amendments and particularly to Amendments 145, 174 and 175. In so far as Amendment 145 is concerned, which requires there to be an…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I strongly support my noble friend Lord Banner in this amendment about proportionality. My experience of this come from my membership of the CIL review, to which I was…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillBefore the noble Lord sits down—11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I want to make a brief comment. I very much sympathise with the thrust of this amendment, but I am anxious about the term “members of the public”. Those noble Lords who…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have not been in your Lordships’ House for that long, but this is the most outrageous amendment possible. It is a baseless smear against somebody. The noble Baroness…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillAt the moment, some of these special stakeholders are not permitted to participate unless they are in the room. I take the noble Baroness’s amendment to say that they might be…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillBefore the Minister sits down, the clock says 10 minutes and for six of those minutes she was explaining how simple it was going to be. It took six minutes to explain that…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI had not realised what the noble Lord was going to say from the Dispatch Box, but I wish to support his Amendments 135HZG and 135HZH What he could have said—but did not—was that…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI may have misunderstood what he said, but I thought the Minister was saying they were reducing the power of certain statutory consultees. I know we are probably advancing the…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise to speak in support of Amendment 135 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, and declare an interest in that the sponsor of her amendment, Richard Bacon,…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am gravely concerned. Normally, of course, I agree wholeheartedly with my noble friend Lady Coffey, and perhaps I have misread her amendment, in which case I…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI strongly support my noble friend Lady Scott’s amendments, particularly the one in which she requires the asylum provisions to be implemented immediately on the passing of the…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillThe noble Baroness will know that I was interrupted on more than one occasion. I am on my last 50 words, so we are going to get there. Normally, interventions from other parties…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillThis is the Planning and Infrastructure Bill—the opportunity to have this sort of wider debate on asylum, borders and infrastructure was yesterday with the borders and asylum…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I will make two brief points. This debate has shown us that we need to charge fees for planning permission, and one has to understand the purpose. It is common ground…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Coffey in her Amendment 112. When I first read this, my mind immediately went to pubs—historic pubs. Of course, we are losing pubs as an…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 103, which was tabled in July but has risen to the top only today. The aim of this amendment is really simple, although I must congratulate…04 Sept 2025