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HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baronesses, Lady Neville-Rolfe and Lady Fox. I pay tribute to the efforts of the Secretary of State and the Minister to…26 Apr 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, your Lordships will of course know that I have one principal abiding fear about this Bill, which is exactly the point that has been made by the noble Lord, Lord…04 Apr 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, this amendment is leading the charge here. I refer noble Lords to Grand Committee, when the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, in particular, questioned why only buildings of…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI wish to test the opinion of the House.29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I will test the opinion of the House on Amendment 115 in a minute. However, before I do so, I will say how much I appreciate the contributions from all noble Lords. It…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, as it is my first contribution in this part of the Bill, I must necessarily declare my interests as a practising chartered surveyor, a member of the RICS and a patron of…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI, too, commend the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, on this amendment. Given the circumstances of the Bill, the number of variations in it and the sheer number of moving parts…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Aberdare. The matter of retentions comes right at the end of this series of Grand Committee sessions, but it is part of a culture. It is…02 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I will probably disappoint the noble Baroness a little, but I hope that I can also give a bit of explanation. I say that with particular feeling because she chairs the…02 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I think the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, has done a considerable service, because she has highlighted quite a number of things. You might say balconies represent important…02 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I should perhaps explain that, while I am a RICS member and fellow and a registered valuer, I do not actually deal with this particular thing. But, as a valuer, I…02 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillThe Minister answered a query I raised in connection with Amendment 72; I apologise for jumping a group. It was to do with commercial developers. I think I used the term…28 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I will try to be brief. I will just pick up on the last point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, who has been a doughty campaigner on all this. We have the…28 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI said commercial developers, but I meant to say “developers of commercial property”. However, I will leave that point for the next debate.28 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I will try to be brief here. This is an extremely valuable group of amendments, and I entirely relate to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and the noble…28 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, as your Lordships will know, I have three amendments in my name in this group. I will speak first to Amendment 115 and then to Amendments 118 and 119, collectively now…24 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI put this amendment forward originally to your Lordships’ wonderful team of parliamentary clerks, who did not like the term “polluter”. They felt that pollution as a term of art…24 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I will just pick up on one or two things. Before I do so, hearing other people’s declarations of interests, particularly that of the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, makes…24 Feb 2022