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

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) the private rented sector and the social rented sector, the commonly acknowledged solution is to increase - Speech Link
2: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) social rented homes. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) For 4.2 million of these—around 1.6 million households—social rented housing would be the most appropriate - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) that does not benefit tenants will not benefit landlords in the long run either. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) It will not benefit landlords, but it will certainly not benefit tenants. - Speech Link
3: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) this issue must reflect the differences between the social and private rented sectors. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) What steps he is taking to reform the private rented sector. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) abolishes section 21 evictions, moves the sector to a system of periodic tenancies and introduces a private rented - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) the necessary improvements and that the delay has caused immense suffering to people in the private rented - Speech Link
4: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) Lady talks about housing. - Speech Link
5: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) On the other hand, social housing providers received only £200 million, which is about 10% of the amount - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) However, Shared Ownership Resources have said that shared owners will not benefit from the leasehold - Speech Link
2: None can be retained for the benefit of the local community. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) leaseholders.We must understand that leaseholders do not want a landlord; that is why they have left the private rented - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) We would benefit from having draft Bill committees. - Speech Link
5: None already questioned whether its 105,000 acres of land could be better used, in part, to provide the social - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Con - Life peer) from London—an ex-soldier in the First World War who managed to get 10 acres of land in Holbeach and rented - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We have just come out of a debate on housing and the environment. - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) of costly pesticides and fertilisers, improve yields, productivity, and air and water quality, and benefit - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Housing: Right-to-buy Sales - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) That has pushed up the housing benefit since 1991 from £9 billion to £29.6 billion. - Speech Link
2: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) in rents, costing billions in increased housing benefit? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) , large numbers of households are now forced to live in expensive and insecure homes in the private rented - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LD - Life peer) is talking about social housing? - Speech Link
5: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) When they generate social housing to accompany their private sector developments, that social housing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) The Finance (No. 2) Bill builds on these improvements by seeking to reward work, boosting the housing - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) evidence that the relief is meeting its original objective of supporting investment in the private rented - Speech Link
3: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) conclude, this Finance Bill absolutely rewards hard work, supports our vital industries, boosts the housing - Speech Link
4: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) At a bare minimum, the Bill could have ushered in legislation for a long overdue energy social tariff - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) Do they not want people to benefit from cheaper travel? - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) It is important that local areas benefit from hosting net zero infrastructure. - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) this country do not even have an energy performance certificate, and of those that do in the private rented - Speech Link


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