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Lords Chamber
Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 02 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) the head when he said in the evidence sessions that we looked in vain for references for money and lending - Speech Link
2: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) investment and business efforts and, in the end, very likely a quasi-socialist economic system.The alternative - Speech Link
3: Lord Turnbull (XB - Life peer) much focus on the narrative that interest rates needed to be kept low and so little attention to an alternative - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) I would be keen to hear the Minister’s thoughts on these alternative options.The real importance of this - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) From the start, it was, as the noble Lord said, intended as a simple and cost-effective alternative to - Speech Link
3: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) not require involvement from a third party.We will reinvigorate commonhold so that it is a genuine alternative - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Mortgage lending on buildings under 11 metres is still inconsistent. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) The Government amended the Bill in the other place to make it explicit that the costs of alternative - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The alternative is that the Government implement the recommendations so clearly set out in the report - Speech Link
2: None authority leaseholders have no right to decide on the scope or timing of proposed works or to request alternative - Speech Link
3: None They are not required by law to find alternative quotes, and with only one tender there is no incentive - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) Unlike big freeholders, they will not have lending facilities, so would be unable to pay legal costs - Speech Link
5: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Conveyancing and lending transactions, which are already under stress, would be paused as there would - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) Many buy-to-let mortgage lenders also require a minimum six-month tenancy agreement when lending to - Speech Link
2: None for possession of supported accommodation (Ground 5F) to require that the landlord must have sought alternative - Speech Link
3: None which the tenant’s dwelling-house forms part and the landlord used reasonable endeavours to identify alternative - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flood Recovery Framework - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) I am grateful to him for bringing this debate to the Chamber and lending his expertise on flooding, I - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) As I have already said, however, I have asked for alternative geographical boundaries to be considered - Speech Link
3: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) What he said in his concluding remarks about the “alternative geographical boundaries” and looking at - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) to block the process.Secondly, successive Housing Ministers have championed commonhold as a viable alternative - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It may be unpopular with developers but I believe it offers a realistic alternative to the flawed leasehold - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) those who control and manage blocks in which anything not expressly forbidden is fair game, mortgage-lending - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) London’s housing strategy calls on the Government to introduce alternative tenures, such as commonhold - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) and Lord Bailey and many other noble Lords regarding a lack of commonhold measures as a meaningful alternative - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, for lending her support to Amendment 2. - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) emergency lairage facilities that can be used to provide animals with appropriate rest periods; using alternative - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: John Baron (Con - Basildon and Billericay) place, Baroness Altmann, Baroness Bowles and others are supporting a private Member’s Bill called the Alternative - Speech Link
2: Damian Green (Con - Ashford) the tax on renewable liquid fuels in the Budget would have reduced their cost and made them a viable alternative - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the tax on renewable liquid fuels in the Budget would have reduced their cost and made them a viable alternative - Speech Link
4: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) Supply not meeting demand is the cause of all of this: an unbalanced lending environment in which bank - Speech Link
5: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Also, a new alternative provision free school was announced in the Budget. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) This means that employers are obliged to offer a suitable alternative vacancy where one is available, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lampard (Con - Life peer) I am, of course, referring to payday lending and gambling. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) school runs a breakfast club because so many children were going without, and it has also set up a lending - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) initial £105 million over the next four years in building new special free schools, and 20 successful alternative - Speech Link