My Lords, I am pleased to introduce this debate on the report The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator, which was published by the Industry and Regulators Committee in early December. As is often the case, we have to wait some time for these debates, but the issues that we raised a…
My Lords, how to follow that? It is not often that a Member of this House is heard in such silence and with such reverence. It is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy, and we are all delighted to see him back in his place. We regret that he is leaving. We congratulate him on his…
My Lords, how to follow that? It is not often that a Member of this House is heard in such silence and with such reverence. It is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy, and we are all delighted to see him back in his place. We regret that he is leaving. We congratulate him on his…
LordsCommittee Stage4 November 20253 contributions
I am very pleased to move that the committee takes note of our report and thank all those who have been involved in the writing of it, especially committee members—and especially those who have done a double shift today, because we had a very significant committee meeting this morning. I also thank …
My Lords, I congratulate the Select Committee on picking this topic: it is vital for the country. It is important to local communities, which is a theme of part of what I want to explore today. I am conscious that the committee identified a number of issues. As an aside, when one looks towards the e…
My Lords, I will be reasonably brief. The noble Lord, Lord Burns, covered most of what I was going to say on the technical stuff. We sent the Bill back, and I think everybody agreed it was not perfect. Then we got this list of amendments back, and my heart sank at the thought of another 12 hours’ de…
I thank the noble Baroness. It is a pity we are discussing football and not chess, where maybe the clock would have been stopped to give me the time I would need in view of that lengthy interruption. The noble Baroness has made my point. In life, one takes risks. The fact that we have in this countr…
My noble friend is right about that. In fact, as of May 2024, 84% of primary schools and 76% of secondary schools had one unfilled place or more. I know that people have been concerned about whether there would be an impact on state schools and the ability of parents to gain their first choice. I am…