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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Apr 2018
Windrush

"I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new position. He will get the unanimous support of this House if he really does sort out the terrible legacy of the Windrush situation, but will he also look at the nitty-gritty of the immigration department? All Members who deal with immigration …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Feb 2018
City of London Corporation: Pensions

"I would rather not be here this evening speaking in this Adjournment debate, not because I do not care about the issue very much, and particularly about my constituent, Mr Clifford Bell, but because I believe that it is such a simple matter that it should have been resolved years …..."
Baroness Hoey - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Feb 2018
City of London Corporation: Pensions

"I thank the Minister for giving way—I know he is coming to the end of his speech—and for his thoughtful response. Does he accept that it should have been up to the City of London Corporation, a council hugely rich in personnel, to inform Mr Bell of his rights? It …..."
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Written Question
Hedges and Ditches: Scotland
Thursday 22nd December 2016

Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the operation of the amended high hedges legislation in Scotland which includes deciduous trees.

Answered by Lord Barwell

My Department has no plans to review existing high hedges legislation. Local authorities are best-placed to resolve private disputes about tall evergreen hedges and loss of light and visual amenity to neighbouring homes and gardens.

Written Question
Hedges and Ditches
Thursday 22nd December 2016

Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Matters Relating to High Hedges: notes to local authorities, published by the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2008, page 5, what the conclusions were of the review of high hedges legislation.

Answered by Lord Barwell

My Department has no plans to review existing high hedges legislation. Local authorities are best-placed to resolve private disputes about tall evergreen hedges and loss of light and visual amenity to neighbouring homes and gardens.

Written Question
Hedges and Ditches
Thursday 22nd December 2016

Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Matters Relating to High Hedges: notes to local authorities, published by the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2008, page 5, when the five-year review of high hedges legislation was carried out.

Answered by Lord Barwell

My Department has no plans to review existing high hedges legislation. Local authorities are best-placed to resolve private disputes about tall evergreen hedges and loss of light and visual amenity to neighbouring homes and gardens.