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Leeds City Council Meeting of The LEEDS CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL Held on Monday, 1 st July 2013 At THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, CIVIC HALL, LEEDS In the Chair: THE LORD MAYOR (COUNCILLOR T MURRAY) ----------------------------------------- VERBATIM REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- Transcribed from the notes of J L Harpham Ltd., Official Court Reporters and Media Transcribers, Queen’s Buildings, 55, Queen Street, Sheffield, S1 2DX -------------------------------------------- VERBATIM REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF LEEDS CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON MONDAY, 1 st JULY 2013 THE LORD MAYOR: Good afternoon everybody, and welcome to this July Council meeting. I am going to begin by giving the customary polite notice to Members about their mobile phones and other electrical equipment. Can you just check to make sure that they are switched off? Thank you for doing that. I am going to move on to announcements. The first announcement I would like to make is rather sad because it is with great sadness that I report the recent death, on 21 st May, of Honorary Alderman Peggy White, CBE. I attended the Memorial Service on Friday, 7 th June. Honorary Alderman White was the Chairman of Leeds City Council Social Services Committee between 1975 and 1980 and it was in recognition of her work in Social Services for this city for which she earned a national reputation and was made a CBE. I think all our thoughts are with her and her family. Can I please ask you to stand for a minute’s silence. (Silent tribute) THE LORD MAYOR: I will move on to some good news first. I would like to congratulate the following, who were honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List: Professor Nicola Cullum who got the Dame Commander; Linda Pollard, who got a CBE; Geoffrey Lister, a CBE; Tina Brown, MBE; Peter Latham, MBE; Mrs Quirk, MBE; Rosalind Savage, MBE; Sarah Williams, MBE; Pauline Gavin, OBE. Pauline is not from Leeds, she was awarded it for services to education as headteacher of St Bartholomew’s Church of England School, Armley. As Lord Mayor I have written to all of them, congratulated them and sent our best wishes. I would also like just to mention a letter I have had from the Major Rifles Secretary for Yorkshire about the Freedom of Leeds Parade that we had. The Rifles exercise the Freedom of Leeds, it was a truly successful event, he has written, thoroughly enjoyed by all who took part. He is thanking all the staff for the co- operation and professional manner in which they worked with the Rifles to co- ordinate all the detail which goes into such a cracking event to become a lovely event. I think that is the end of my announcements. ITEM 1 – MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON 20 th MAY 12013. THE LORD MAYOR: I would like to move on to the Minutes of the meeting held on 20 th May 2013. Councillor Harper. COUNCILLOR G HARPER: Lord Mayor, I move the Minutes be received. 2 THE LORD MAYOR: Councillor Latty. COUNCILLOR G LATTY: I second that, Lord Mayor. THE LORD MAYOR: I would like to call for the vote. (A vote was taken) That is CARRIED, thank you for that. ITEM 2 – DECLARATIONS OF INTERESTS THE LORD MAYOR: Item 2, which is Declarations of Interests. I would like to invite Member to disclose any disclosable pecuniary interests that they would like to make for this afternoon’s meeting. (Pause) I do not think there are any, so we will move on. ITEM 3 – COMMUNICATIONS. THE LORD MAYOR: I will ask the Chief Executive to report on Communications. THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE: No communications, Lord Mayor. ITEM 4 - DEPUTATIONS THE LORD MAYOR: Can we move on to Deputations then. THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE: Yes, to report that there are four deputations: first, Hands Off Our Homes, regarding spare bedrooms in Council homes; second, Save Primrose Hill Care Home Campaign, regarding Primrose Hill Care Home; third, Morley Against Reckless Construction (MARC), regarding the proposed building of 8,000 plus homes in the Morley area; and fourth, families of residents of Manorfield House Residential Home in Horsforth, regarding possible closure. THE LORD MAYOR: Councillor Harper. COUNCILLOR G HARPER: Lord Mayor, I move that all the Deputations be received. THE LORD MAYOR: Councillor Latty. COUNCILLOR G LATTY: I second that, Lord Mayor. THE LORD MAYOR: Can I call for the vote? (A vote was taken) That is unanimous and that is CARRIED. DEPUTATION ONE – HANDS OFF OUR HOMES THE LORD MAYOR: Good afternoon and welcome to today’s Council meeting. Please make your speech to Council, which should not be longer than five minutes, and please begin by introducing the people in your Deputation. MR I DALTON: My name is Iain Dalton, this is Carole O’Keefe, Jon Owen, Armardeep Singh Burde and Simon Conneff. 3 The Bedroom Tax, (or under occupation rule) was brought in three months ago today and affects more than 9,000 people across Leeds who are social housing tenants receiving housing benefit. People who are considered to have one or more spare rooms have had their housing benefit cut by between 14% and 25%. This cut is affecting thousands of families with children and is disproportionately affecting people with disabilities. We are a group of Leeds citizens, some of us employed, some unemployed, some social housing tenants, others home owners or private renters. Some of us are directly affected by these cuts but all of us have family, friends, neighbours who are affected and we have come together as Hands off our Homes to support those who have been hit, to defend homes and to campaign against this unjust tax. Since we formed just over a year ago we have held meetings and formed local groups across the city in those areas most heavily impacted - from Middleton to Gipton, Woodhouse and Armley. Our meetings have been attended by hundreds of people, we have spoken to hundreds more on estates in Hunslet and Seacroft and in high rise blocks in Cottingley, Little London and Lincoln Green. In April more than a thousand people marched through the centre of Leeds asking that you, our Councillors take a stand against this tax which, on top of Council Tax benefit cuts, rising food and fuel costs is forcing thousands in this city deeper into debt and poverty. We have talked to parents in Harehills and in Armley who have started to miss meals to feed their children and in winter will sacrifice heat to keep a roof over their family’s head; to a 56-year old man in Hunslet, who is confused and frightened by the cuts to his Council Tax and Housing Benefit and now refuses to leave his house; a young man living alone in a high rise in Lincoln Green who told us he was considering ending his life; a single father in Woodhouse whose children have now left home and has to find £20 out of his weekly allowance of £71 and is now cutting down on food, who is hungry and ashamed and isolated; a grandmother in Beeston whose home of 23 years is the only place that her grandkids can see their dad; a grandmother in Morley who looks after her disabled grandson to give her daughter some respite; a grandmother in Seacroft whose grandchildren stay over so their mum can work nights. 4 None of these are spare rooms. They are part of a home and all the different functions that a home plays in the life of families. Every case is an injustice. We are deeply concerned at the repeated stories from tenants of Housing Officers putting pressure on people to cut back on essentials in order to pay the rent, suggesting that one single father, a full time carer, uses his son’s disability benefit to pay the shortfall; refusing to give a woman with learning disabilities in Lincoln Green a Discretionary Housing Payment form; telling a woman with severe mental health problems that she will be out on the street if she does not pay up, that rent comes before food. These are not isolated cases we have been hearing the same thing across the city. In Armley, in Little London and in Woodhouse these issues have been taken to local Councillors who have said they will investigate. So far we have heard nothing. Tenants have been told they can downsize or increase their hours but we know that there are simply not enough jobs or houses to go round. In the last three years the Council has let only 1,500 single bed properties - 4,500 of those affected by the bedroom tax are looking for a one bed property. The biggest increase in people claiming housing benefit is from those in low paid work and in the last four years, Leeds has lost more jobs than any other major UK city outside of London. We are here to ask the Council to commit strongly to opposing this horrendous measure and to take responsibility for the way in which it is being implemented. We know that Leeds City Council did not introduce this tax but your hands are not tied. It is unacceptable that vulnerable, desperate, depressed people should feel harassed in their own homes by the behaviour of Housing Officers. It is unacceptable that this should continue and we are calling for the Council to investigate the training and practices of Housing Officers. We welcome the fact that the Council has already re-classified around 800 homes but this is just a drop in the ocean and needs to be expanded further.
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