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Division Votes
14 Oct 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and in line with the House One of 23 Crossbench No votes vs 23 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 192 Noes - 239
14 Oct 2025 - Business of the House - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and in line with the House One of 47 Crossbench No votes vs 10 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 211 Noes - 261
14 Oct 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and in line with the House One of 8 Crossbench No votes vs 36 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 204 Noes - 215
14 Oct 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and in line with the House One of 12 Crossbench No votes vs 19 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 169 Noes - 212
20 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and against the House One of 29 Crossbench No votes vs 11 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 216 Noes - 175
20 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and against the House One of 22 Crossbench No votes vs 15 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 227 Noes - 168
20 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and against the House One of 23 Crossbench No votes vs 18 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 235 Noes - 164
21 Oct 2025 - Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted Aye and in line with the House One of 17 Crossbench Aye votes vs 4 Crossbench No votes Tally: Ayes - 212 Noes - 144
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and in line with the House One of 5 Crossbench No votes vs 1 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 84 Noes - 113
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and in line with the House One of 26 Crossbench No votes vs 10 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 163 Noes - 236
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted No and in line with the House One of 5 Crossbench No votes vs 1 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 83 Noes - 113
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Best voted Aye and in line with the House One of 30 Crossbench Aye votes vs 15 Crossbench No votes Tally: Ayes - 246 Noes - 169

Speeches
Lord Best speeches from: Planning and Infrastructure Bill Lord Best contributed 4 speeches (1,134 words) Report stage: Part 3 Wednesday 22nd October 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Lord Best speeches from: Renters’ Rights Bill Lord Best contributed 1 speech (466 words) Tuesday 14th October 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Lord Best mentioned

Live Transcript
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14 Oct 2025, 5:35 p.m. - House of Lords "particularly admire Lord best ability to see into the mind of landlords who failed to sell their " Lord Cromwell (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript
14 Oct 2025, 5:32 p.m. - House of Lords "eviction so. Clearly outlined by the noble Lord best. And we do hear of " Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
14 Oct 2025, 5:24 p.m. - House of Lords ">> My Lords, first of all, I. Really also want to join Lord best in. >> Really praising. >> Lord. >> Young for his tenacity and " Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
14 Oct 2025, 5:25 p.m. - House of Lords "But I'm going to try and I'm going to say why we oppose this. Lord Best " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
22 Oct 2025, 9:25 p.m. - House of Lords ">> My. >> Nevill friend Lord best has given an empirical. >> And quantitative. " Lord Best (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript
22 Oct 2025, 9:28 p.m. - House of Lords "actually materialise. I know it's late and if the noble Lord best moves to a vote, we will be there " Baroness Grender (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
22 Oct 2025, 9:29 p.m. - House of Lords "very happy to sign the amendment 72. In the name of noble Lord Lord best I. I'm just going to give one " Baroness Grender (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
22 Oct 2025, 9:34 p.m. - House of Lords "figure on the face of the bill. As the noble Lord best is well aware, I am particularly interested in " Lord Jamieson (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
22 Oct 2025, 9:36 p.m. - House of Lords " I thank the noble Lord best for amendment 72. I have to say the last words of the noble Lord Jamieson. " Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript

Parliamentary Debates
Planning and Infrastructure Bill 64 speeches (13,010 words) Report stage: Part 3 Wednesday 22nd October 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Grender (LD - Life peer) affordable homes, the homes will actually materialise.I know it is late, but if the noble Lord, Lord Best - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Best, has rightly focused on one area of desperate need: homes for social rent. - Link to Speech 3: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) My Lords, we support the intentions behind Amendments 72 and 85 and thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, for Amendment 72. - Link to Speech
New Homes Target 17 speeches (1,558 words) Tuesday 21st October 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I sat last year on the Devon Housing Commission chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Best, and it found that - Link to Speech
Renters’ Rights Bill 67 speeches (13,119 words) Tuesday 14th October 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Grender (LD - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Best, and the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, have provided wisdom, backing - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) My Lords, first, I join the noble Lord, Lord Best, in praising the noble Lord, Lord Young, for his tenacity - Link to Speech 3: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I particularly admire the ability of the noble Lord, Lord Best, to see into the mind of landlords who - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 15th October 2025 Written Evidence - Health and Safety Executive (HSE) BSR0174 - The Building Safety Regulator Building Safety Regulator - Industry and Regulators Committee Found: Part M of the Building Regulations Lord Best asked about BSR’s role in relation to Part M of the Building

Written Answers
Estate Agents: Regulation Asked by: James Cleverly (Conservative - Braintree) Friday 17th October 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of property agents. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The government is committed to ensuring that those living in the rented and leasehold sectors are protected from abuse and poor service at the hands of unscrupulous property agents. Property agents must already belong to a government-approved redress scheme. This legislative requirement is currently enforced by local authorities and by the National Trading Standards’ Lettings and Estate Agency Team, who have the power to issue warnings and banning orders to rogue estate and letting agents. The previous government committed to regulate the property agent sector in 2018 and asked a working group chaired by Lord Best to advise them how to do it, yet it failed to respond to their findings from 2019. Managing agents play a key role in the maintenance of multi-occupancy buildings and freehold estates, and their importance will only increase as we transition toward a commonhold future, and so we are looking again at Lord Best’s 2019 report on regulating the property agent sector, particularly in light of the recommendations in the final Grenfell Inquiry report. On 4 July 2025, we launched a wide-ranging consultation on proposals to hold landlords and managing agents to account for the services they provide and the charges and fees they levy. This included a number of proposals recommended by Lord Best, including the introduction of mandatory qualifications for managing agents and estate managers on freehold estates. We are clear that this consultation is not the final step in the regulation of managing agents and we will continue to reflect on the various other recommendations made in the 2019 report. We will set out our full position on regulation of estate, letting and managing agents in due course.

Written Answers

Estate Agents: Regulation
Asked by: James Cleverly (Conservative - Braintree)
Friday 17th October 2025

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of property agents.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The government is committed to ensuring that those living in the rented and leasehold sectors are protected from abuse and poor service at the hands of unscrupulous property agents.

Property agents must already belong to a government-approved redress scheme. This legislative requirement is currently enforced by local authorities and by the National Trading Standards’ Lettings and Estate Agency Team, who have the power to issue warnings and banning orders to rogue estate and letting agents.

The previous government committed to regulate the property agent sector in 2018 and asked a working group chaired by Lord Best to advise them how to do it, yet it failed to respond to their findings from 2019.

Managing agents play a key role in the maintenance of multi-occupancy buildings and freehold estates, and their importance will only increase as we transition toward a commonhold future, and so we are looking again at Lord Best’s 2019 report on regulating the property agent sector, particularly in light of the recommendations in the final Grenfell Inquiry report.

On 4 July 2025, we launched a wide-ranging consultation on proposals to hold landlords and managing agents to account for the services they provide and the charges and fees they levy. This included a number of proposals recommended by Lord Best, including the introduction of mandatory qualifications for managing agents and estate managers on freehold estates. We are clear that this consultation is not the final step in the regulation of managing agents and we will continue to reflect on the various other recommendations made in the 2019 report.

We will set out our full position on regulation of estate, letting and managing agents in due course.

Lord Best - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Tuesday 4th November 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Regulators and growth At 10:00am: Oral evidence Professor Sean Ennis - Director at Centre for Competition Policy Dame Julia Black - Professor of Law and Regulation at Oxford University View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 25th November 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Private Meeting Subject: The Building Safety Regulator View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 18th November 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Regulators and growth At 10:00am: Oral evidence Dan Elliot - Founder and Director at Frontier Economics View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 11th November 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Regulators and growth At 10:00am: Oral evidence Ben Ramanauskas - Senior Research Fellow at Policy Exchange Anne Pardoe - Head of Policy at Citizens Advice View calendar - Add to calendar

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 15th October 2025 Written Evidence - Health and Safety Executive (HSE) BSR0174 - The Building Safety Regulator Building Safety Regulator - Industry and Regulators Committee
Tuesday 28th October 2025 Oral Evidence - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Building Safety Regulator, and Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government Building Safety Regulator - Industry and Regulators Committee