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Commons Chamber
Illegal Waste: Organised Crime - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) We want councils to work with the police and use the latest technology, such as drones, to help catch - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) We want councils to work more closely with the police, and to use the latest technology. - Speech Link
3: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) I praise Bromsgrove district council for its work to clear up illegal fly-tips. - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) It includes representatives from a number of councils, the Environment Agency and the National Crime - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It showed the scale of the problem and the finance available. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Chris Vince (LAB - Harlow) The use of temporary accommodation, which we have discussed before, costs local councils millions of - Speech Link
2: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) In the Cotswold district, 80% is protected landscape and of the remaining 20%, half is floodplain. - Speech Link
3: John Milne (LD - Horsham) It is something that applies only to my district and a couple of neighbouring areas. - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) I mentioned district-level licensing of great crested newts, which is an example of where a strategic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biodiversity and the Countryside - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) For example, over five years, data across more than 50 local authorities under the current district licensing - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) Strengthening, monitoring, supporting councils, and integrating BNG with broader ELMS and Landscape Recovery - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) certainly not a fan of nature bashing.I remind noble Lords that we also have a clear role for green finance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Supporting High Streets - Tue 04 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) should extend the initiative that we have back home in Northern Ireland, in my council area, to councils - Speech Link
2: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) You oversaw 14 years of decline for our high streets and our district centres; this Labour Government - Speech Link
3: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) Will she join me in praising the work of my local councils in providing training for small businesses - Speech Link
4: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) Given that borough councils levy business rates and that businesses have an expectation that the money - Speech Link
5: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) The concentration of social pressures in town centres and district centres is having a real impact on - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage - Mon 03 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) The state alone will not be able to build these new settlements; neither will councils, nor, as noble - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) from the Peak District at the Cheshire Plain, Adlington is in the foothills. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) to seek finance from the widest possible range of sources. - Speech Link
4: None development proposals, with the option of doing so through private finance. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Local Government Reorganisation - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) simplify local government by ending the two-tier system and establishing new single-tier unitary councils - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
Committee stage: 11th sitting - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) As we spoke about in a previous debate, the abolition of district councils means that town and parish - Speech Link
2: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) We know that most of the district councils will not exist anymore, and the strategic authorities will - Speech Link
3: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) We want to keep high-quality finance directors in local authorities. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) that support those neighbourhood plans—and the district councils that support such work in the local - Speech Link
2: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) Councils are essentially mini Houses of Commons and mini democratic forums. - Speech Link
3: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) There are no reporting requirements on councils and there are no waiting time limits for councils to - Speech Link
4: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) The District Councils’ Network in its general election prospectus, London Councils, the Association of - Speech Link
5: None . (2) The ‘constituent councils’ are any county council, district council, town council or parish council - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Black History Month - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) action plan, and reviewed the work with the British Business Bank and others on tackling barriers to finance - Speech Link
2: Marie Goldman (LD - Chelmsford) Working with UK Government Departments, the NHS, local councils and sports organisations, O5BM now has - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) Prostate Cancer Support Organisation recently held an event in my patch with the East Grinstead and District - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Building Safety Regulator - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Chris Curtis (Lab - Milton Keynes North) Time and again, developers and councils tell me exactly the same story: that schemes are stuck in the - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) one in England, but we are strengthening building safety regulations, which are enforced by local councils - Speech Link