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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 May 2020
Budget: Economic and Fiscal Outlook

"My Lords, eight weeks ago, several important announcements were made in the Budget about infrastructure investment. There was to be a significant rise in borrowing to fund this, to be paid for by future growth. That Budget was said to represent an end to austerity.

Just eight weeks later, the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Freedom of Information Act 2000

"My Lords, I first remind the House of my interests in the register in connection with the Local Government Association. I thank my noble friend Lord McNally for tabling this Question for Short Debate and, like my noble friend Lord Scriven, I give him my full support.

The Freedom of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 04 Jul 2019
Councils: Funding

"My Lords, I also remind the House of my vice-presidency of the Local Government Association. Local government will be pleased that the Minister thinks that the sector is doing “remarkably well”. Indeed it is, but does he accept that local government is facing ever-rising costs in service provision at the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Affordable Housing

"My Lords, I refer the House to my interests in the register. A few days ago, at the Housing 2019 conference, the Prime Minister said that,

“we are delivering a whole new approach to social housing … Because this is a Government with a bold vision for housing and a …..."
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Written Question
Freedom of Information
Wednesday 3rd July 2019

Asked by: Lord Shipley (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to include housing associations and tenant management organisations.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

The Government agrees that landlords, including housing associations, should be accountable and transparent in their dealings with tenants and be responsive to their needs. However, we do not believe the extension of the FOI to housing associations is the best means of achieving that.

Housing Associations are already required to make a significant amount of information public. They are required to publish their accounts annually, including a strategic report covering issues such as the remunerations of key personnel.

The Regulator of Social Housing, which regulates the sector, also publishes information supplied by Housing Association at individual provider level, including details of their stock holdings, rent levels and evictions.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 May 2019
Public Procurement and the Civil Society Strategy

"My Lords, I should remind the House that I am a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McGregor-Smith, for enabling us to have this debate. She made a large number of important points in her speech. I was struck by her observation that the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 May 2019
Public Procurement and the Civil Society Strategy

"My query specifically related to whether it was simply advisory for local government or whether local government should be required to do what central government departments do...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 18 Mar 2019
Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019

"My Lords, I am not sure whether I declared my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I feel I should do so and remind the House of it...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 18 Mar 2019
Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019

"The Minister will be grateful for paragraph 8.1 in the Explanatory Memorandum, which states:

“This instrument does not relate to withdrawal from the European Union”.


It is the first statutory instrument today that does not have that status. However, as the Minister said, it is technical but important.

I …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2019

"My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation of these orders. I am supportive of them. They bring the regulations into line with the election of police and crime commissioners and of Members of Parliament. They also respond to the recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. …..."
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