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

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) perform complementary but distinct roles, as demonstrated by the financial services sector and the social - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) deterrent to other breaches of the lease that are otherwise difficult to enforce, such as persistent anti-social - Speech Link
3: Lord Howard of Rising (Con - Life peer) Of those, almost two-fifths are owned by professional landlords and rented out. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) at the expense of another party, rent-seeking requires to be restrained if it is not to damage the social - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) Councils have a great track record of building more social housing, yet with more fiscal devolution, - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LD - Life peer) The council’s remit stretched from social services to education, housing, environmental improvement, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) rented sector.The noble Lord, Lord Shipley, brought up business rates. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Home Insulation: Health and Mortality Rates - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) bill payers and the environment and set more ambitious home installation targets, particularly for social - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) We have the oldest housing stock in Europe, but we are making progress. - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) We have a multiplicity of different housing types. - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) The more successful schemes, such as the social housing decarbonisation fund and others, are also multi-year - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) One finding is that, of the people receiving both universal credit and housing benefit in Arfon, 35% - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) people on low incomes in the private rented sector will be, on average, £800 a year better off come - Speech Link
3: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) What steps he is taking to tackle non-payment of housing benefit to district councils when the beneficiary - Speech Link
4: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) benefit payment to local charities, which are unable to become registered social landlords. - Speech Link
5: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Schools, general practitioners, social services, charities and housing associations can all refer their - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) So, we have this really weird world.What I want to talk about is social housing. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) Top of the list comes direct development of so-called “social rented housing”: this part of the housing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) all tenures but particularly affordable rented and social rented homes —makes matters far worse for - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) rented sector, we have enshrined in law, through the Social Housing (Regulation) Act, a rebalancing - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) the housing benefit costs of older people was a valid one. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning Reform - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Whatever we call it—social rented housing or public housing—we need loads more of it. - Speech Link
2: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) We will be gone, but those who follow us will benefit from the shade. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) rented homes, an issue the right hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Would he allow local authorities, and give them the finance, to once again build social rented homes, - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Maybe they will cut support towards the cost of social care, or end incapacity benefit or jobseeker’s - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) In Wirral, there are no legal aid contracts to support people on housing or social security matters, - Speech Link
4: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) The cuts to social security, benefit freezes and restrictive reforms shattered our agreed safety net - Speech Link
5: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Then, in 2013 we had the bedroom tax, which was a cut in housing benefit that had originally been calculated - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Social Housing Occupancy - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) It is about overcrowding in social housing, and indeed the housing crisis. - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) changes to the local housing allowance mean that councils are forced to use the dwindling private rented - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) For 4.2 million of those people, social rented housing would be the most appropriate tenure to address - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) That is why we are taking action to ensure that those who abuse the housing system should not benefit - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) We still have social housing waiting lists—absolutely we do—because we have been trying to undo decades - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) A growing proportion of people on low incomes live in the least secure private rented sector, are employed - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) When we do so, we will build social responsibility over time and enjoy greater social solidarity. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) for extra funding for the delivery of social housing and ended the policy of letting local authorities - Speech Link