Local Government White Paper

Lords statement on the local government White Paper (Cm 6939).

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

685 c1313-27

Session

2005-06

Department

Chamber / Committee

Strong and prosperous communities: the local government white paper in 2 volumes.
Thursday, 26 October 2006
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 685 c1321-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, local government is about the community of place; therefore local government is about loca...

Baroness Andrews | 685 c1319-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the welcome given to the White Paper. I have sympathy with the pressures...

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Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 685 c1318-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we live in one of the most centralised states in western Europe and, after the effects of ...

Baroness Hanham | 685 c1315-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement made by the Secretary of State in the oth...

Baroness Andrews | 685 c1323 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend. She has enormous experience in local government and...

Baroness Andrews | 685 c1313-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by the S...

Baroness Hamwee | 685 c1326 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Liberal Democrats are very happy for the Government to take up our ideas, but we want ...

Baroness Andrews | 685 c1325-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords, I can. The tone of the White Paper is proof of the fact that we bow to the expert and...

Lord Grocott | 685 c1327 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am required by procedure to adjourn the House for the lunch-break business. I beg to mov...

Lord Greaves | 685 c1323-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the key words in the Statement which the Minister has kindly repeated are ““strong directi...

Baroness Andrews | 685 c1324 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, I do not agree at all. If the noble Lord reads the introduction to the White Paper and...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 685 c1324-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association, although I ...

Baroness Andrews | 685 c1327 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are not imposing strong leadership; we are suggesting that there are three models which...

Subjects

Accountability

Councillors

Local government

Public participation

Standards

Reform

Unitary councils

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