Information between 30th August 2025 - 19th October 2025
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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4 Sep 2025, 2:31 p.m. - House of Lords "a statutory basis. I agree with the case made for it by my noble friend, Lord Lansley and Lord Shipley and Lord Best. There is little I can add " Lord Carrington of Fulham (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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4 Sep 2025, 2:05 p.m. - House of Lords "in my name and in this group of amendments. I'm grateful to the noble Lord Best and the noble Lord Shipley who also signed that " Lord Fuller (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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4 Sep 2025, 2:52 p.m. - House of Lords "you Lord Shipley, Lord Best, Lord Carrington, Baroness Bennett and " Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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4 Sep 2025, 2:38 p.m. - House of Lords "noble Lords, noble Lord Lansley, Lord Shipley and Lord Best in " The Earl of Lytton (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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4 Sep 2025, 7:43 p.m. - House of Lords "printed on the marshalled List. >> Like Lord Best and in a similar position with Baroness Pinnock having gone for her train expecting " Amendment 114 - View Video - View Transcript |
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17 Sep 2025, 12:13 a.m. - House of Lords "Amendment 465, baroness Burton of Solihull, not moved, and amendment 466, Lord Best. " Baroness Blower (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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17 Sep 2025, 10:02 p.m. - House of Lords "on demand for housing. And both the noble Baroness Thornhill and the Noble Lord best played a crucial " Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 2:22 p.m. - House of Commons "or my old boss, Lord Best? >> He is right. There is something fundamental here about the " Rt Hon Priti Patel MP (Witham, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 5:49 p.m. - House of Lords "122, after clause 51, amendment 122, Lord Best. >> I rise with some trepidation after that terrific group on Green " Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6 p.m. - House of Lords "eloquently and coherently proposed by the Noble Lord Best, which I and other noble Lords have signed. It is " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6 p.m. - House of Lords "In addition to the figures already mentioned by the Noble Lord Best, " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:02 p.m. - House of Lords "Lord Best 142. This has to be possible and desirable, more so given that the Government is given " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:05 p.m. - House of Lords "and 151 from the Noble Lord Best. We " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:08 p.m. - House of Lords "much of the evidence on the housing provision. Amendment 122A moved by the Noble Lord Best will hold the " Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:09 p.m. - House of Lords "now provided under section 106 that seeks to maximise this resource. Lord Best explained what happens in " Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:09 p.m. - House of Lords "assessments. And as Lord Best says half of all affordable houses are " Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:35 p.m. - House of Lords "to rise, but I do feel compelled to support the noble Lord best. And " The Earl of Lytton (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:34 p.m. - House of Lords "the final point is about section 106, Lord Best said last year the " Lord Lansley (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:37 p.m. - House of Lords "the point. At -- Lord Best pointed out it's what we mean by affordable. 80 percent of the market price in " The Earl of Lytton (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 6:52 p.m. - House of Lords "The government is in agreement with the noble Lord best, that we need to significantly increase the number of affordable homes built each year, " Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 12:08 a.m. - House of Lords "Lord best in order to make this a reality, but on this I beg to withdraw. >> Is a geologic pleasure this amendment be withdrawn? Amendment is, finally, withdrawn. Amendment 135 a, Baroness Coffey. " Baroness Coffey (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 12:06 a.m. - House of Lords "the Noble Lord best. Very conscious in response to my Noble Friends Lord " Baroness Coffey (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 11:17 p.m. - House of Lords "such dwellings should have windows. Secondly and really close to our hearts and I'm looking at Lord Best " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 2:11 a.m. - House of Lords "Lord best in his second amendment makes that point that within the " Baroness Pinnock (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 2:12 a.m. - House of Lords "that is amendment 152 in the name of Lord Best. His first amendment, 139, " Baroness Pinnock (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 2:16 a.m. - House of Lords ">> Baroness Pinnock to great job of channelling Lord Best and I'm just going to make two very brief points in addition to what the noble Lady " Baroness Pinnock (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 2:15 a.m. - House of Lords "name of the Noble Lord best and I look forward to the noble Baroness " Baroness Pinnock (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 2:21 a.m. - House of Lords "independent lives. Turning first to amendment 139 tabled by Lord Best this seeks to ensure that new housing meets the needs of older and " Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 2:25 a.m. - House of Lords "communities, and Lord Best is not " Baroness Pinnock (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Sep 2025, 12:35 p.m. - House of Lords "427 by the Lord Best Manchester, if " Baroness Whitaker (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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11 Sep 2025, 5:52 p.m. - House of Lords "pleased to see Lord Best and my good friend Lord Lansley, I think this is something touched on top two days " Lord Gascoigne (Conservative) - View Video - View 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill
222 speeches (48,096 words) Committee stage part two Wednesday 17th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: None 2022 report on demand for housing, in which the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, and the noble Lord, Lord Best - Link to Speech |
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill
192 speeches (54,040 words) Committee stage Thursday 11th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) Lady Pinnock, would agree with that, given her Amendment 220.I am pleased to see the noble Lord, Lord Best - Link to Speech |
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill
101 speeches (34,622 words) Committee stage part one Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: None I was particularly shocked by the analysis from the noble Lord, Lord Best, that if the percentage of - Link to Speech 2: None This is why we all heartily support Amendment 141 from the noble Lord, Lord Best, which makes it very - Link to Speech 3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Best, said, since nearly half of all affordable houses are now provided under - Link to Speech 4: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Best, said that developers provided less last year by way of Section 106. - Link to Speech |
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill
113 speeches (26,912 words) Committee stage part two Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) dwellings should have windows.Secondly, and close to our hearts—I am looking at the noble Lord, Lord Best - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) noble Lords who have spoken—my noble friends Lord Fuller and Lord Lansley, and also the noble Lord, Lord Best - Link to Speech |
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill
170 speeches (52,648 words) Committee stage Thursday 4th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) My Lords, Amendment 162 in my name is in this group and I am very grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Best - Link to Speech 2: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) with the case made for it by my noble friend Lord Lansley and the noble Lords, Lord Shipley and Lord Best - Link to Speech 3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I agree with the noble Lords, Lord Lansley, Lord Shipley and Lord Best, in particular, that we need to - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I thank the noble Lords, Lord Shipley, Lord Best, Lord Carrington and Lord Banner, as well as the noble - Link to Speech 5: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) My Lords, I am in a similar position to the noble Lord, Lord Best, with the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock - Link to Speech |
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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 |
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Thursday 18th September 2025
Written Evidence - None BSR0168 - The Building Safety Regulator Building Safety Regulator - Industry and Regulators Committee Found: will require review and reapproval Finally, the review of the Approved Documents was mentioned by Lord Best |
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Wednesday 17th September 2025
Agendas and papers - Special Inquiry Committee proposals 2026 Liaison Committee (Lords) Found: Lord Young of Cookham, Lord Holmes of Richmond, Lord Liddle, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Lord Best |
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Tuesday 9th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Building Safety Regulator, and Building Safety Regulator Building Safety Regulator - Industry and Regulators Committee Found: September 2025 10.05 am Watch the meeting Members present: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (The Chair); Lord Best |
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Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Oral Evidence - Office for Product and Safety Standards, and Office for Product and Safety Standards Building Safety Regulator - Industry and Regulators Committee Found: September 2025 11.35 am Watch the meeting Members present: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (The Chair); Lord Best |
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Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Oral Evidence - Local Authority Building Control, and Association of Building Control Approvers Building Safety Regulator - Industry and Regulators Committee Found: 2 September 2025 10 am Watch the meeting Members present: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (The Chair); Lord Best |
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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. |
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Renters' Rights Bill 2024-25: Consideration of Lords amendments - CBP-10325
Sep. 02 2025 Found: One amendment, tabled by Lord Best (crossbench) and concerning compliance with the Tenant Fees Act |
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Sep. 10 2025
HL Bill 110-VI Sixth marshalled list for Committee Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD BEST BARONESS THORNHILL LORD CARLILE OF BERRIEW 151_ Clause 52, page 74, line 22, at end insert |
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Sep. 05 2025
HL Bill 110-V Fifth marshalled list for Committee Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD BEST BARONESS THORNHILL LORD YOUNG OF COOKHAM LORD CARLILE OF BERRIEW 122_ After Clause 51, |
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Sep. 03 2025
HL Bill 110-IV(Rev) Revised fourth marshalled list for Committee Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Planning and Infrastructure Bill 16 LORD BEST BARONESS THORNHILL LORD YOUNG OF COOKHAM LORD CARLILE |
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Sep. 02 2025
HL Bill 110-IV Fourth marshalled list for Committee Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD BEST BARONESS THORNHILL LORD YOUNG OF COOKHAM LORD CARLILE OF BERRIEW 122_ After Clause 51, |
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Sep. 02 2025
Renters’ Rights Bill 2024-25: Consideration of Lords amendments Renters’ Rights Act 2025 Briefing papers Found: One amendment, tabled by Lord Best (crossbench) and concerning compliance with the Tenant Fees Act |
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Tuesday 9th September 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Building Safety Regulator At 10:00am: Oral evidence Chris Griffin McTiernan - Deputy Director Operations at Building Safety Regulator Philip White - Chief Inspector of Buildings at Building Safety Regulator View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 16th September 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Private Meeting Subject: The Building Safety Regulator View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 9th September 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 14th October 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 21st October 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Private Meeting Subject: Regulators and growth View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 10 a.m. Industry and Regulators Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The Building Safety Regulator View calendar - Add to calendar |
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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 |