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Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) Disability Rights UK has said:“The housing sector is a dangerous mess for Disabled people”, who contend - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) Government reforms apparently include short-term proposals to tighten the work capability assessment - Speech Link
3: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) industries or contract work.Expanding the definition of disability may be helpful for some people, but just lets - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) There is a long answer I could give, but the short answer, which I think I have given in the House before - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Airbnb or similar ultra-short lets. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) We know that much supply has been lost to short-term lets, which was expanded on very well by the noble - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) lets, and introducing a new planning use class for short-term lets.On the suggestion by the noble Lord - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Brexit is doing its damage to Edinburgh’s trade and talent in that sector, too, but services is a sector - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The conduct by the NUS, and by particular students in it, is nothing short of grotesque, and I am sure - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) holiday lets, and to stop landlords coming in and purchasing properties that should be used for family - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She is absolutely right: in this sector, as in most, it is women who deserve the greatest praise. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 07 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Friend the Chancellor to revisit his decision to change the tax arrangements of furnished holiday lets - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) The problem was that there was not a level playing field with long-term lets. - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) What support will the Government give to people who rent in the private sector? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Furnished Holiday Lettings: Taxation - Wed 01 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) let sector, PASC can find no quantitative data to support that conclusion. - Speech Link
2: Anne Marie Morris (Con - Newton Abbot) going back to the private rented sector, which they wanted to leave and are leaving in droves. - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) policy intention is to align the tax treatment of furnished holiday lets and the private rented sector - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) I have heard owners of pubs, bars and restaurants complain that the large number of short-term lets and - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) lets, rather than long-term lets. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) Simply put, the amendment is a short cut to being able to take control without such complexities and - Speech Link
2: Lord Thurlow (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It is very short but very important.Much of this Bill is designed to protect leaseholders from freeholders - Speech Link
3: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) For example, there may be instances where a leaseholder who privately lets their flat needs to take their - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) might be perfectly reasonable in terms of the person instructing the management, but still fall well short - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) Given the substantial price difference between short-term lets and long-term lets in constituencies like - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) My constituency has the highest number of second homes and short-term lets of almost anywhere in the - Speech Link
3: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) We are making an enormous mistake, which will reduce long-term lets in favour of short-term lets and - Speech Link
4: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) over short- term lets. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) It would also have lots of implications for the Government’s policies on public sector pay, the minimum - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) We see second homes and holiday lets gobbling up the homes that local people—or people who might become - Speech Link
3: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) by the Migration Advisory Committee and, even at that point, it said that 45% of people would fall short - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) talked about people in the hospitality sector and other - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) We would like to see devolution in the short term, and full control over the immigration system in the - 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: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) another example of the Scottish Parliament delivering for the people while Westminster dysfunction only lets - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) south-west and elsewhere are very keen to see some of the reforms that the Government are introducing on short-term - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) He said that a short paper on the topic of the Union was prepared by officials and presented to the UK - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Medical Student Places - Mon 22 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) Is that not a tragic loss, at a time when we are really short of doctors? - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) If he has any specific cases of students not getting a place and lets me know about them, I will look - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) Student drop-out is not unique to the medical sector. - Speech Link