Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 21 Nov 2017 Social Housing
"My Lords, will the Minister accept that the Government’s commitment to raising standards in education rings hollow when so many families with small children live in temporary accommodation? I refer to my own experience as chair of education in Lancashire. These children cannot settle and have the good early years …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, when does the Minister expect to get back from the 2015-16 figure of fewer than 1,000 new starter homes in the social sector to the 40,000 started in 2009-10? I declare my interest in that I got into local government in the 1970s in Preston, when we had …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, I would not dream of asking the Minister a question about how many EU citizens are involved in building houses because he is very proficient and I am sure he would not have that information. However, would he agree with my observation that many houses—for both incoming and …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, would the Minister care to answer the second part of my noble friend Lord Beecham’s question, which he did not answer at all?..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, I was unable to be present for the whole debate, but with the leave of the House, I would like to speak in the most reverend Primate’s debate today. I wish to ask: who are we, the British, our national group of people? I speak as someone who …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, perhaps I may just add that recently, I went to a funeral at the local Catholic church in Ribbleton. One of the men I referred to, whom I had spoken to as a child, turned to me and said: “You know, our population was going down. They’ve saved …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, will the Minister please take back to his colleagues in government the fact that one of the major problems of underachievement by children is the underachievement of those who do not live in settled homes, who move around and whose education is disrupted? Returning to the 11-plus will …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, can the Minister explain his comment that the Government will be working on the report? Surely a report is either published or not published and it is then for others to look at its conclusions. What did the Minister mean?..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare an interest as a Lancashire resident. Will the Minister care to take away and reflect on the fact that there is great concern and anger at government suggestions that local people should be taken out of the decision-making process for future fracking? Will he care to …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech
"My Lords, the Minister, in answering my noble friend Lord West, agreed with the importance of the security and staffing element and said, I think, that no decisions had been made to cut the budget for those staff. Am I right in thinking that that means it could be cut …..." Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton - View Speech