Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

HL Deb 13 February 2003 vol 644 c883

Lord Williams of Mostyn

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

Moved, That the draft Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 laid before the House on 20th January be approved.—(Lord Williams of Mostyn.)

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville

My Lords, as the noble and learned Lord knows, I was unable to attend the Grand Committee that debated the order. I had an outstanding question which I put to him this morning in writing. I would have raised it this evening if he had not replied in the interim. I thank him most warmly for the courtesy and comprehensiveness of his reply. The only loss out of the exchange is that any PhD student writing a thesis on housing in Northern Ireland between 1970 and 2005 will now not know what my question and the Lord Privy Seal's answer to it were.

Lord Williams of Mostyn

My Lords, I am grateful for the noble Lord's courtesy. If there is a PhD thesis lurking, I shall incorporate it into a government dossier.

On Question, Motion agreed to.