Results 1-20 of 1,595 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Jacqui Lait

Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: I welcome the introduction of the first national policy statements, but may I press the Secretary of State on the timetable for ending consultation, both in the wider world and within Parliament? How does that fit in with Sir Michael Pitt's timetable inviting the energy producers to come forward with their plans?

[Ann Winterton in the Chair] — Abortion Law (Northern Ireland) (15 Jul 2009)

Jacqui Lait: Can the Minister explain why abortion is a criminal justice matter in Northern Ireland and a health matter on the mainland?

[Ann Winterton in the Chair] — Abortion Law (Northern Ireland) (15 Jul 2009)

Jacqui Lait: I have been involved in this debate for more than 40 years, and we have heard today all the arguments made throughout that time. If there is one plea, it is that we go to the barricades in the cause of toleration. Not many people do that. The compromise argument that the women in Northern Ireland who need and agonise over having an abortion should have it paid for in a hospital in Great...

[Ann Winterton in the Chair] — Abortion Law (Northern Ireland) (15 Jul 2009)

Jacqui Lait: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Business Rates Revaluation (7 Jul 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: What impact assessment his Department has conducted in preparation for the 2010 business rates revaluation.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Business Rates Revaluation (7 Jul 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: I am grateful to the Minister for that answer, and I am sure businesses will be grateful too. In a recent survey that I conducted in Beckenham, 46 per cent. of small businesses said that they needed help already with business rates. Given that the threshold for the supplementary business rate is only £50,000, and the effect that that will have on small businesses, does the Minister agree...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: With the leave of the House, may I congratulate the Minister on her mammoth speech, even though it was deeply unhelpful? The people affected by the problems that we have discussed are public sector leaseholders, who have come to me, to the hon. Members for Hendon (Mr. Dismore), for Brent, North (Barry Gardiner), and for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes), and, interestingly, to...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: As the right hon. Lady moves through her speech, will she differentiate between the rights that are given to private sector leaseholders and public sector leaseholders? The problems that I have raised occurred well before the 2002 Act and have continued since its introduction. The legislation certainly helped with the problems of the private sector leaseholder. If she would differentiate, I...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: What the Minister just said was carefully worded. Did she mean that the Tenant Services Authority will also be invited to take into consideration the interests of public sector leaseholders in both council housing and the housing associations?

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: I am hugely grateful to the Minister for giving way, and obviously I do not want to turn this debate into a dialogue, but a public sector leaseholder who bought their home would not regard themselves as living in social housing. That is the crux of my point.

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: Can the right hon. Lady explain how the leaseholder's right to obtain other quotations or other contractors' names, which she has described, sits with the five-year contract for whole of the works, and whether the contractor would have a legal right to compensation should one of the leaseholder's contractors be given the job? Also, as I said, one of the gateways used by RSLs and local...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: The Minister might remember my reading out the experience of the leaseholders of Orbit South, whose management charges have increased by 100 per cent. over recent years. She really needs to consider what is happening in the real world, as opposed to what is happening in the legislative world. Many public sector leaseholders experience a total disregard for any of the rights that she is...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: The right hon. Lady might like to know that Broomleigh had one or two blocks that were full of public sector leaseholders and it sold the flats as freehold. There are some enlightened RSLs, but not very many of them.

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: indicated assent.

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: I have cases where people have bought a property after having done all the searches and were then told that they have a five-year bill to pay.

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I start by declaring an interest. I am a private sector leaseholder and a director of the management company of the block of flats in which I live. I used to be chairman, but resigned because of a potential conflict of interest due to a planning application from the block next door. I congratulate the two Members who have got their Bills...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I promise that I am not planning to speak until he gets back—that would be totally unfair and would certainly take credit away from the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, the hon. Member for Gillingham (Paul Clark), for his marathon. I hope that we will still be discussing the matter, because I know that the hon. Gentleman has serious...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Leaseholders' Rights Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Jacqui Lait: I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I agree entirely. In fact, in due course I shall mention a letter that I have received from somebody who not only found themselves in that position but has been told how much they are paying compared with other tenants, which is way out of kilter. The hon. Gentleman and I are at one on this issue, and anyone who understands the problem knows that...