Speeches by Francois.

“(2) In section 101 (The standard of MOD accommodation), after “service family accommodation”, in each place it occurs, insert “and single living accommodation”.”

“(3) In subsection (10), at the appropriate place insert—”

“““single living accommodation”” means any building or part of a building which is provided for the use of a person subject to service law or a civilian subject to service discipline as living accommodation, but which is not service family accommodation;”.” —(James MacCleary.)”

“This new clause amends the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 to ensure defence housing standards apply to single living accommodation.”

“Brought up.”

“Question put, That the clause be read a Second time.”

“(4) References to the Ministry concerned are to be read as references to the Secretary of State.”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. We would all like to know when we are going to have it, but the reason we do not have it is simple. It is not that the staff work has not been completed—it has. It is not that the programmes have not been costed—they have. The fundamental problem is that while Ministers say t…”

“See the explanatory statement for Amendment 10.”

“(5) Paragraph 5(1)(b) applies as if both references to the powers conferred by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 were to the powers conferred by section 343H(1A) of this Act.”

“No, the hon. Gentleman has had his go. The Committee may remember that we were promised that the DIP would be published in the autumn; then, we were faithfully promised it by Christmas; and then we were absolutely, definitely going to get it in the new year. But here we are in June—and, incredibly, still no DIP.”

“As a matter of fact, that is not how I interpret what the NAO said—not at all.”

“Amendment 56, page 80, line 39, at end insert—”

“In a moment. The plan allowed industry to make rational decisions about where to invest, helped to improve the morale of our armed forces by letting them know about the new equipment they could expect to come into service, and had an important deterrent effect on our potential adversaries by laying out exactly what we …”

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““by Defence Housing Service or Secretary of State: England and Wales”.”

“(3) References to the council which proposes to acquire land otherwise than by agreement are to be read as references to the Defence Housing Service.”

“(6) Paragraph 6(2) applies as if, for the words from ‘fund out of which’ to the end, there were substituted ‘funds of the Defence Housing Service (in this Schedule “the compensation fund”) and discharged by payments made by the Defence Housing Service’.”

“It is extremely sad that the hon. Gentleman is seeking to conflate two completely different issues, and I suspect that anyone who actually served on Operation Telic would understand that. Having made that point, let me turn to the Opposition’s new clause 2, which would require the Secretary of State for Defence to lay …”