division_name: Housing and Planning Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="b.721.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.721.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">Every Parliament that is elected has a responsibility to the future and to do all that it can to ensure that the lives of the next generation are better than those of past generations. Nowhere is that more important than in ensuring that the next generation have the homes they need. Indeed, it is not just about the next generation. The impact of much of the public policy that we debate is on the here and now or the next few years ahead. If we look around any city, town or village in Britain, it is obvious that housing endures for many decades and, in some cases, for hundreds of years. Every home that is built is much more than a pile of bricks and mortar or concrete and glass. The homes that we build shape the lives, for better or for worse, of generation after generation of people who live in them.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.735.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from &#8220;That&#8221; to the end of the Question and add:</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.735.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this House, whilst affirming its support for helping more people, particularly young people, to own their own homes and welcoming measures in the Bill that restrict the operation of rogue private landlords and letting agents, declines to give a Second Reading to the Housing and Planning Bill because the Bill will not help most people struggling to buy their own home, will mean a severe loss of affordable homes for local communities across England, will centralise significant powers in the hands of the Secretary of State and deprive councils of the capacity to meet the housing needs of their communities and local people of a proper say in the planning process, and will weaken the obligation of private developers to contribute towards affordable homes for local people.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.827.7/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put, </i>That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.827.7/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.827.7/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 228, Noes 305.</p>