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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) the road and other amenities but not, of course, council tax. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) The amendment would prevent freeholders being charged twice, first through council tax and then through - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) In Jean-Paul v Southwark London Borough Council in 2011 in the UK Upper Tribunal, Lands Chamber, reference - Speech Link
4: None Florrie’s law introduced a £15,000 cap on major works in London and a £10,000 cap outside London over - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) They are also suffering withdrawal or reduction of the in-house resident manager, who is frequently now - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) These economic benefits—GDP and tax revenue enhancement, and cost savings on temporary accommodation - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) The result of these trends is a big reduction in the pipeline of new affordable homes. - Speech Link
3: Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (LD - Life peer) You see that in London and the other cities around the UK. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The cost of this falls significantly on the taxpayer in housing benefit and, secondly, on council tax - Speech Link
5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) have listened to calls from councils to increase this cap, which some have said is making some build schemes - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None This amendment makes it clear that the reference to the Common Council of the City of London in the new - Speech Link
2: None in the amount of council tax payable in respect of the person’s current home under a scheme made by - Speech Link
3: None in the amount of council tax payable in respect of the person’s current home under a scheme made by - Speech Link
4: None tax discount under the billing authority’s reductions scheme or who already receive a reduction. - Speech Link
5: None This amendment makes it clear that the reference to the Common Council of the City of London in clause - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a body called the International Valuation Standards Council - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) We want them to attain greater security of tenure. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) I noted they were all London-based, no doubt because of land values in London. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) youth clubs, arts projects, emotional well-being initiatives, supplementary schools, parental support schemes - Speech Link
5: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) The Scillies have a council, a local authority, like any other area. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) housing service charges have risen exponentially, without, it seems, any recourse to an explanation or a reduction - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the elected Government of the day, whoever that is, the space and flexibility to decide on whatever schemes - Speech Link
3: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) I ask the Minister what has happened to that council. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bshp - Bishops) London was granted the manor. - Speech Link
5: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) current law so that non-litigation costs payable on enfranchisement do not attract stamp duty land tax - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) They include the community recovery grant, council tax reductions, the business recovery grant and business - Speech Link
2: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) We will therefore see either a reduction in available home produce or an increase in prices—or both. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Thirdly, can the suspension of council tax payments and business rates for the owners of flooded properties - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Here in London, the Tideway project is an incredible investment; we need to see that across the country - Speech Link
5: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Under the council tax discount and business rate relief the Government have reimbursed local authorities - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Spring Budget 2024: Welsh Economy - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) But make no mistake—these cuts in services and rises in council tax are a direct result of the way in - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Under the European funding schemes, Wales also got the highest per head of population contribution for - Speech Link
3: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) relief from five years to 10 years, providing greater certainty to businesses looking to invest, delivering - Speech Link
4: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Member that her local council, Gwynedd County Council, will be responsible for the almost £19 million - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Waste and Food Distribution - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Retailers need to adopt greater flexibility and specifications to utilise the whole crop, and as consumers - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) I find it bewildering that when I am up in London I have to put my food waste in the bin with everything - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) If anybody has not used that app yet, I can highly recommend it, especially in London, where you can - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) There is tax relief when businesses donate to charity.There will always be some waste that cannot be - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) They will accept the additional council tax generated by the new properties, but will not take on the - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) It is the largest independent funder of children and young people’s services in Greater London and, in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) London, or more than £1,000 inside Greater London, are to be deemed to be assured tenancies under the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) The same householders will also be paying council tax to cover such maintenance in other estates in their - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Transport: Carshalton and Wallington - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) , backed up by a Liberal Democrat council. - Speech Link