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Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) You enumerated a list of three options: a code of conduct, which you said existed in the social sector - Speech Link
2: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) Our satellite TV dishes are rented in perpetuity; they were costing £240,000 a year, which is somewhere - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Housing and flat sales are falling through every single day because of the lease terms and service charges - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) I am not sure what that means, and it would benefit from some explanation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Long-term Plan for Housing - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) There is a desperate need for social housing to rent. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) there is the social housing decarbonisation fund. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) My Lords, I shall follow the theme of social housing. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) For example, the local housing allowance uplift will help with the affordability of the private rented - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum System - Tue 09 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) They have not admitted such a plan to their Back Benchers, and they certainly do not admit it in the social - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) What is the cost of accommodating asylum seekers who have entered the UK illegally in hotels or other rented - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) We can go online and see that Serco, which is responsible for housing asylum seekers in private housing - Speech Link
4: Katherine Fletcher (Con - South Ribble) We are working with the social media firms to make sure these—rude word—gangsters cannot sell absolute - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Service Accommodation - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) Images flooded social media of decrepit flats, mould, flooding and people with water dripping through - Speech Link
2: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) According to Ministry of Defence estimates, about 700 families promised mitigation work will not benefit - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) When housing stock falls into disrepair and their alternative is to rent in the private rented sector - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Executive operate the housing system purely on a points system, with criteria that housing applicants - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 13 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) The SNP asked for direct help for people: a £400 energy bill rebate, a social tariff on energy, a lower - Speech Link
2: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) leasing industry, because a completely different tax treatment is given where assets are leased or rented - Speech Link
3: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) We have also uprated benefits by 6.7%, and uprated the local housing allowance, which will benefit 1.6 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: George Howarth (Lab - Knowsley) The National Housing Federation says that 8.5 million people in England are in housing need, with 4.2 - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) That is completely stupid, and the only people who benefit are those on the Opposition Benches. - Speech Link
3: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) They expect to live in a nice street, and to benefit from the services that they pay for week in, week - Speech Link
4: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) That independent legal advice is for the benefit of all Members of Parliament and peers, which is why - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Former Afghan Special Forces: Deportation - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Ministers have failed to deal with the ballooning backlog of ARAP applications, broken housing promises - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (Con - Wells) is incredibly hard to say who is and who is not legitimate, given that often people are accessing on social - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) and Communities to ensure that housing is available for those who need to be relocated from Pakistan - Speech Link
4: Nigel Evans (Con - Ribble Valley) Reading (Standing Order No. 57)Fleur Anderson presented a Bill to require landlords in the private rented - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) that of landlords, leaving leaseholders stripped of the rights enjoyed even by tenants in the private rented - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) It simply is not right and it needs addressing.My final point is one that we raised on the private rented - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) experience of many leaseholders over the cladding scandal, and the welcome professionalisation of the social - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) leaseholders who have exercised their right to buy within the social housing sector and those within - Speech Link
5: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Westminster City Council.Time and again, I receive complaints from constituents living in private and social - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bshp - Bishops) Practical aid is essential, and that comes especially through basic needs such as good housing, social - Speech Link
2: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) example in our country but certainly not the only city across the world like this, and in the rented - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) The Labour Party plans to build 1.5 million homes over five years, including social housing, to provide - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) fund, which has seen scores of buildings taken back into public ownership by their communities for the benefit - Speech Link
2: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) What steps he is taking to reform the private rented sector. - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) The costs of statutory services such as adult social care and care for children are rising. - Speech Link
4: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) Meanwhile, only 9,500 homes for social rent were built last year. - Speech Link
5: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) It is fantastic that Stoke-on-Trent has been chosen as one of the 20 places to benefit from the National - Speech Link