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Spring Budget 2024 - Motion to Take Note (18 Mar 2024)

Lord Horam: ...politician, I have always believed that the economy should work for everyone. As a northerner, I am also keen on levelling up, because I am conscious that the rest of the country has fallen behind London and the south-east over the last few decades. From that perspective, I thought it was a good Budget, and the points were made by my noble friend Lady Vere with her usual vim and vigour....

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Second Reading (17 Jan 2023)

Lord Horam: ...in that great city for what he did for it, as well as many other places in our country. I was a Member of Parliament for a northern constituency for 13 years and a Member of Parliament for a London constituency for 18 years. From both points of view, levelling up is absolutely necessary—in the north because there is too little activity and in London because there is in many ways too much...

Public Order Bill - Second Reading ( 1 Nov 2022)

Lord Horam: ..., I do not normally speak in debates on police Bills and bring no particular knowledge or background to this debate. However, I want to say a few words because I am aware, as someone who lives in London, of the sheer irritation—at times, fury—of ordinary people at some of the matters we are discussing. The noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, just now and the noble Lord, Lord Blair of...

Nationality and Borders Bill - Committee (3rd Day): Amendment 56 ( 3 Feb 2022)

Lord Horam: ...of reception centres of this kind. At the moment, first of all, people are visited on local authorities, which are asked to accommodate them. Inevitably, these are not local authorities in London and the south-east, where accommodation costs are very high, but in areas such as the Midlands, the north-west and the north-east. I come from the north-west, so I know it particularly well. Here...

Inequalities of Region and Place - Motion to Take Note (14 Oct 2021)

Lord Horam: ...got trivial consumer goods such as pet foods. However, in the 1960s and the 1970s, all that changed as the mills and the mines disappeared, and Britain became a service economy based on a booming London and south-east. Successive Governments, starting with Lord Hailsham with his rather risible flat cap, attempted to address this growing imbalance. Will the present effort fare any better?...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (4th Day) ( 9 Jan 2020)

Lord Horam: ..., as northerners will attest, have wonderful civic buildings from the time in the 19th and 20th centuries when they produced most of the wealth which we lived on at that time. It now comes from London, but back then it came from the north of England. Anyone who has not seen the Harris Library in Preston or Bolton Town Hall has not really lived—I thank my noble friend from Bolton for...

Affordable Housing - Motion to Take Note (25 Oct 2018)

Lord Horam: ..., and I know that to be true. We have a Secretary of State who is new to the job and whom I know—I was a neighbour of his when I was the MP for Orpington—understands the problems of outer London. We have a Minister for Housing who was leader of Fulham Council and therefore understands very well the problems of inner London. We have my noble friend Lord Bourne, who is also aware of the...

Brexit: Sanctions Policy (European Union Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note ( 3 May 2018)

Lord Horam: ...should clearly be a subset of foreign policy. There should be an overall strategic view that sanctions fit into successfully. They must also be co-ordinated properly. As one of the Russians in London said the other day, “If they push us out of London, we’ll just go to Paris”. If it is not co-ordinated, that is the sort of thing that could well happen. It was made clear to us by the...

Brexit and the Labour Market (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note ( 8 Feb 2018)

Lord Horam: ...National Statistics evidence projections, we will have 9.7 million more people by 2039 than we have now, raising the population to 74-75 million people. This will predominantly, I expect, come in London and the south-east and will affect the quality of life in our part of the world. As an economist I hate to admit that quality of life is about not only economics but a whole range of other...

Brexit: Trade in Goods (EUC Report) - Motion to Take Note (18 Jul 2017)

Lord Horam: ...that are distant and small by comparison with the trade arrangements we already have. Also, these countries extract a price. Look at what Aramco is now asking for to have its business listed on the London exchange. They all demand a price and want their pound of flesh. It amused me during the referendum campaign to see the slogan, “Bring back control”. If you weaken the economy, you...

Building More Homes (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note ( 2 Mar 2017)

Lord Horam: ...able politician, as my noble friend Lord Forsyth alluded to, but happens to be the MP for a Croydon seat next to my old constituency of Orpington and therefore understands the problems of London housing which are at the epicentre of the housing difficulties we face. I am delighted that he is there. We have also had the dafter ideas in the Housing and Planning Bill dropped along the way, or...

Autumn Statement: Economy - Motion to Take Note (29 Nov 2016)

Lord Horam: ...but I am afraid that those targets may not be adequate to deal with the situation that we face. However, I believe that we have a good team at the DCLG with Sajid Javid and Gavin Barwell, who is a London MP and therefore understands the situation. I hope that those two can bring about a Harold Macmillan/Ernie Maples solution to our housing problems and achieve a new 300,000 houses a year....

Bus Services Bill [HL] - Third Reading (23 Nov 2016)

Lord Horam: ...the gift of coming up with interesting and appealing ideas, and this is one of them. I think that obviously we are all sympathetic to the issue of safety on buses; some instances recently, even in London, have been a matter of concern. I think also of the cycling situation in London, which is a problem. However, on this occasion I have to agree—they might be surprised to hear this—with...

Housing - Motion to Take Note ( 3 Nov 2016)

Lord Horam: ...economist and former Treasury Minister, which is important in this context as he has the right sort of background to understand this issue, and Gavin Barwell who, as the noble Lord will know, is a London Member of Parliament and understands the problems that are particularly acute in our capital city. I am confident that they are the right team to tackle this. Thirdly, I praise ourselves...

Bus Services Bill [HL] - Committee (2nd Day) ( 4 Jul 2016)

Lord Horam: ...is no distinction, really, in accountability terms between a mayor and a councillor who is considering these matters. I strongly agreed with the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, about London and London franchising. I live in London and I can certainly attest that what she said about that is entirely correct. London buses are, frankly, marvellous. Whether you congratulate...

Housing and Planning Bill - Third Reading (27 Apr 2016)

Lord Horam: ...in England. Not only that but—this is the whole point of the debate—some of those houses are being sold off under the enhanced right-to-buy provisions that are already in place. As a former London MP, I went round London looking at the houses sold in each London borough and calculated that last year 3,805 council houses were sold off. So we are losing council houses, which are...

Housing and Planning Bill - Report (3rd Day) (18 Apr 2016)

Lord Horam: ...leaving one for someone on the waiting list. I understand that argument. It is an important one that we should not forget. However, this is not the greatest problem that we face. In the case of London, for example, where the housing crisis is most acute, 100,000 properties have been bought by secret offshore companies, pushing prices up for ordinary Londoners, who cannot get access in the...

Housing and Planning Bill - Report (1st Day) (11 Apr 2016)

Lord Horam: ...the noble Lord, Lord Taylor, said graciously that there has been a sea change in Government policy towards housing in the past year or so that recognises that there is obviously a severe problem in London and the south-east in particular, but also in other parts of the country. In debates on housing, we have heard occasionally from the noble Lord on the Liberal Democrat Benches about the...

Written Answers — Department for Communities and Local Government: Housing: Greater London ( 7 Apr 2016)

Lord Horam: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many homes were completed in each London Borough in the latest year for which figures are available; and how many homes were sold under the Right to Buy in each of those London Boroughs in the same year.

Housing and Planning Bill: Committee (9th Day) (23 Mar 2016)

Lord Horam: ...here watches the “Grand Designs” programme, but being an addict of property porn I watch it from time to time. Recently, there was an example of a small, typical mews house in a mews area of London, where the owner decided that he wanted to have a ballroom in the basement and, underneath that, it could be collapsed into a swimming pool. This was constructed, after immense difficulty...


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