Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, I begin by reassuring the House that my noble friend Lady Harris of Richmond is not lea...

My Lords, we have had a survey of the vast canvas set out by this Bill, especially from the Minis...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble and right reverend Lord, who has already stolen some...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate, who has made some powerful...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bourne. As we have heard, levelli...

My Lords, I remind the House that I am a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I ag...

My Lords, the challenge for any large organisation, whether in the public or private sectors or w...

My Lords, in the brief time available, I will address health inequalities between the north of En...

My Lords, it is a real pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Carlisle. I ag...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register and note that I am co-chair of the Mi...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on the Front Bench on introducing this large Bill. I sli...

My Lords, it is still with some astonishment and a great deal of trepidation that I rise, for the...

My Lords, it is a great honour for me to follow my noble friend and to thank her for an extraordi...

My Lords, first, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, on her excel...

My Lords, I add my voice of welcome to the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, and c...

My Lords, it is good to be here considering this much-awaited piece of legislation. I declare my ...

My Lords, I have a few criticisms of the Bill, not least the fact that it does not mention climat...

My Lords, it is an honour and a privilege to address your Lordships’ House for the first time. I ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, on her maiden speec...

My Lords, I also congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson, and the noble Lord, Lord Jackson...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate both maiden speakers on excellent and powerful contributions.

My Lords, I declare my interests, as on the register, and I have three points to make on the Bill...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Best, has just implied, there are few areas of public policy—in...

My Lords, I declare my professional and personal interests in this matter as a chartered surveyor...

My Lords, I will speak on three matters: pavement licences, local finance, and digital and financ...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Peers for the Planet. The planet is facing poten...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan, and my few remarks will b...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, in particular as a non-executive dir...

My Lords, I too congratulate the maiden speakers, and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of...

My Lords, I draw attention to my environmental interests in the register.

When I was a kid,...

My Lords, I remind the House of my position as a vice-president of the Local Government Associati...

My Lords, as we may be about to hear from the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, the inequalities which ...

My Lords, I hope I may be forgiven a certain sense of nostalgia: I was elected to another place i...

My Lords, I am delighted, as we all are, that my noble friend Lord Heseltine decided to speak in ...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Horam, with his strategic policy on la...

My Lords, I add my voice to those of other noble Lords who have outlined their severe disappointm...

My Lords, I want to raise three particular issues. First, how will the Bill enable levelling up? ...

My Lords, I will focus on levelling up, even though it forms but a fraction of this leviathan of ...

My Lords, I wish to focus my remarks on what I regard as the crucial role played by parish and to...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the two noble Lords who made their maiden speeches today, and I draw at...

My Lords, I declare my position as a vice-president of the LGA and the NALC. My noble friend Lady...

My Lords, to my mind, the missions are one of the crucial parts of the Bill and I want them to be...

My Lords, I remind the House of my interests as set out in the register.

I have just one as...

My Lords, rhetorically there is a lot to commend in this whopping piece of levelling-up legislati...

My Lords, I have to admit that I was quite favourable to the White Paper that came out about a ye...

My Lords, levelling up has become a much-used expression these days. It has somehow morphed into ...

My Lords, it is interesting to follow the noble Lord, Lord Haselhurst, and his comments on levell...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, particularly as he has drawn ...

My Lords, I come from Cumbria, where I chair the local enterprise partnership. It has been descri...

My Lords, the Bill is highly aspirational, but I am pleased that I have on the Front Bench someon...

My Lords, perhaps the Minister would have wished that this was my valedictory speech. I thank her...

I know that your Lordships will be uplifted to know that that was not in fact the valedictory con...

My Lords, this evening, the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, spoke persuasively of the need for more d...

My Lords, there is much to welcome in the Bill before us; however, I shall be seeking to scrutini...

My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as a member of the South Downs National Park Authority...

My Lords, I remind the House that I am a former police and crime commissioner for Leicester, Leic...

My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my registered interests. Most notably, I am president o...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. It was also a pleasure to listen t...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill’s laudable intentions, but great expectations, in my experience, are...

My Lords, first, I add my congratulations to our two excellent maiden speakers in this debate. I ...

My Lords, your Lordships will be relieved to hear that, as speaker 65, I will sidestep the big is...

My Lords, some five hours ago the first Government Back-Bench speaker was my noble friend Lord Bo...

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All right—I have knocked on nearly as many doors as all the noble Lords in this Chamber. I have n...

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My Lords, this has been an excellent debate on levelling up. What is good for ...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Anderson of Stok...

First of all, I give my sincere apologises to the noble Baroness, Lady Harris of Richmond. I am s...

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