Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 81, which is the first of a number of amendments I have ta...

I rise to support Amendment 70, which was eloquently articulated by the noble Lord, Lord Foster, ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 81, spoken to so eloquently by the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Ne...

I rise to speak to Amendments 155 and 156 in my name. These are probing amendments because I thin...

My Lords, we have a couple of amendments in this group, one in my name and one in the name of my ...

My Lords, this is a very important group of amendments, which probes and challenges the membershi...

Does the noble Baroness agree that one of the other concerns is that such members cannot then be ...

That is my fundamental principle. Anyone who makes decisions about public money has to be voted f...

My Lords, as noble Lords have explained, this group of amendments considers various aspects of th...

I am finding some of this slightly confusing, so I wonder whether the noble Earl could clarify so...

It may be helpful if I cover the issue of district councils in a moment when I come to Amendments...

The Minister has given one example of a constituent council—a council outside the area of the CCA...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, and I am sure that we can cover those issues in more depth at th...

What could the value be in an outsider—someone who is not elected as part of the authority—having...

I gave one example, which was a district council that might have particular interests; another mi...

My Lords, the whole House is inordinately grateful to the noble Earl the Minister for genuinely l...

Moved by

Lord Shipley

77: Schedule 1, page 253, line 18, at end insert—

“(d) to...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 79, 82, 83, and 84. All these amendments relate to aud...

My Lords, I declare my interest in farming as set out in the register.

I rise to speak on A...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests in the register. I am a serving district and county co...

My Lords, I remind the House of my interest as a member of Kirklees Council and one who has serve...

My Lords, the amendments in this group relate to scrutiny of combined county authorities. I think...

I hope the Minister will excuse me. I find that response about the sharing of best practice a lit...

For a start, they will still be members of the Local Government Association, I assume, as will th...

I thank the Minister for her reply. I think the issues raised across the Committee on this group ...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

87: Clause 14, page 12, line 5, at end insert—<...

My Lords, with the current local authority funding gap running at over £7 billion a year and much...

My Lords, I think that these are three very important amendments, and my name appears on Amendmen...

My Lords, I apologise for not being present on the first group that the Committee discussed today...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to the budgets and funding of combined county authorit...

I think I said when I moved the amendment that our contention was that local government, includin...

In broad terms, yes. But if I can elaborate on that, I will certainly write to the noble Baroness...

I am very grateful for the responses from the Minister. As was said earlier in the debate, we kno...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

89: After Clause 16, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group, which ranges very far and wide; at points,...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 91 to which I have added my name, and to Amendment 469 in the...

My Lords, I start by congratulating the clerks who made up this group—it is an astonishing achiev...

My Lords, I rise very briefly to support the probing Amendments 89 and 90, in the name of the nob...

My Lords, very briefly, because time presses, my name is attached to the stand part debates on Cl...

My Lords, this is another really important group of amendments to do with the extent of devolutio...

My Lords, as others have said, this has certainly been a mixed bag of amendments, but clearly the...

Has the noble Baroness given any consideration to one of the provisions here about the statement ...

Absolutely; the noble Lord is completely correct. I was trying to get across that there should be...

My Lords, this group of amendments covers a number of matters relating to combined county authori...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister. I thank her for what she has said so far, but I want to ask...

My Lords, that is because, as I said, the role of the PCC does not impinge on the roles of the co...

Each district council has to have a community safety committee, which is made up of district coun...

I did not say it has nothing to do with the districts or the county—

I apologise to the Minister. I just thought I would add to the questions now and not interrupt fu...

In the interests of making life easier for the noble Baroness, perhaps I could add my question. W...

I did not say that the councils do not have any concerns or interest in the role of the PCC. Of c...

I do not know where that information has come from about councils not delivering community safety...

I think we are going to disagree on this, and there is a fine line. I also want to answer the que...

I am struggling with this logic. The combined authority mayor can appoint a deputy to be responsi...

That is not the logic. It is an opportunity for the directly elected mayor to be able to join up ...

Do the Government therefore suggest that, at a local level, a council leader could appoint their ...

That is not the logic. It takes the whole issue too far. Cabinet members will come from the elect...

The one thing that this has not answered is the issue of the politics, looking at the West Midlan...

No, I do not think so. I will make it very clear: these amendments are nothing to do with the Wes...

Following the Minister’s earlier remarks about the mayor being able to appoint a deputy to be res...

I do not know about buses, but I imagine that there may be the ability for a mayor to appoint som...

I have a question on the issue of buses. We have seen millions of bus miles removed from the syst...

This is the responsibility of the Department for Transport. I will be in touch with the relevant ...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. The Minister made an interesting comment at the en...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

92: Clause 19, page 16, line 11, at end insert—