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HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillThat is slightly separate from my point about NDMPs, but the right hon. Gentleman gives me an opportunity to respond to the Government’s announcement on housing targets. The…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI disagree with the right hon. Gentleman’s analysis. We do not know precisely what the Government have in mind for local housing targets, but my reading of their announcement is…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillIncreasing the supply of affordable housing, which is at pitifully low levels, is a laudable aim. I agree with the hon. Member on that, and I therefore hope he can support our…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and she is not the only hon. Member for whom this is an acute problem: I have heard Members say in several debates over the past year that this…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI want to make some progress, so I will not give way. We take issue with the Government making local housing targets unenforceable in the absence of a viable alternative to try to…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillThere is a point to what the right hon. Gentleman says. It is partly about the distribution of who can buy the houses that come online, but it is also partly about supply. The…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI will give way one final time, and then I will make some progress.13 Dec 2022HANSARDSoutheastern Railway Timetable ChangesIt is an absolute pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Harris, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) on securing this important debate and…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSoutheastern Railway Timetable ChangesI want to probe the Minister a little further on levels of demand. Southeastern approached the Department for the derogation on 22 June, so were using demand data from that time.…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)We recognise that Ministers meet tenants and tenant representatives frequently. My concern is that if tenants on the advisory panel have an issue that they feel is sufficiently…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank the Minister for that helpful response, and I take on board the concerns she raised about the amendments. I am slightly concerned about the lack of what we would consider…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)For all its technical complexity, the Bill is ultimately about those who live in social housing and overhauling regulation to ensure that they are treated fairly by landlords who…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)I appreciate the Minister’s concern about binding the regulator too rigidly. I push back slightly against the point made by the hon. Member for Erewash: I think it is wrong to…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I beg to move amendment 14, in clause 2, page 1, line 18, at end insert— “(2A) The Panel may provide information and advice to the Secretary of State about, or on matters…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)I thank the Minister for that response. I am somewhat reassured by it, to the extent that she has laid out—in considerable detail, in some cases—the ways in which some of the…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)Absolutely right. We finish with an important new clause. It relates to what comes under the rubric of consumer standards as defined by the Bill. Since its initial publication in…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. In rising to speak to the final new clause, I thank hon. Members for their indulgence. They have listened to me a lot today.29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)I thank the Minister for that useful response and the hon. Member for Walsall North for his contribution. The Minister touched on an interesting issue when exploring the details…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)Amendment 17, in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Luton North, is extremely straightforward, and I will therefore be very brief in speaking to it. Clause 31…29 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)Before we suspended, the hon. Member for Walsall North pressed me on what he felt was an inaccuracy in my statement that journalists were not covered by the provisions. The…29 Nov 2022