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Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) in London for council tax, behind Tory-run Croydon and Liberal Democrat-led Kingston upon Thames. - Speech Link
2: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) Member believe that people who promise not to raise council tax should not raise council tax? - Speech Link
3: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) council tax being collected. - Speech Link
4: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) tax and wider council funding. - Speech Link
5: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) The settlement will place a significantly greater expectation on council tax payers in rural areas to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police Grant Report - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) The issue is not willingness, but ability.When funding depends heavily on council tax capacity, areas - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) Areas with strong council tax bases can raise more; areas with weaker council tax bases cannot. - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) Members have mentioned—I suffer from this in Birmingham, as well—that a council tax base that is low - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) We are never going to get fairness if the council tax system is the method of doing this. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Woodland Creation - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , Ards and North Down council. - Speech Link
2: Aphra Brandreth (Con - Chester South and Eddisbury) His Majesty’s official Opposition are clear: the family farm tax and the family business tax should be - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) I would be grateful for greater clarity from the Minister. - Speech Link
2: None Will larger organisations be asked to meet a greater proportion of the costs, or will there be a flat - Speech Link
3: None , a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London or the Council - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) We were promised a reduction in bills of £300, but they have actually gone up by just shy of £200. - Speech Link
2: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) Last year, I teamed up with the local Labour council cabinet member for the cost of living and my hon - Speech Link
3: Euan Stainbank (Lab - Falkirk) To stay competitive against imports, those manufacturers need greater support. - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) London will be covered in solar. - Speech Link
5: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) What plans his Department has to help improve GP access to decarbonisation schemes. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 09 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness O'Neill of Bexley (Con - Life peer) and the Greater London Authority into line with other strategic authorities. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) levied income tax, placing different conditions on business rates and making council tax a buoyant and - Speech Link
3: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) Its own website tells long-suffering residents that their council tax is the highest in Wiltshire. - Speech Link
4: None For example, in London, the business rates supplement introduced by the Greater London Authority was - Speech Link
5: None His point was well made, but that is 10% of the council tax that Stevenage council tax payers pay—in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) I am persuaded that some children may need greater care and support. - Speech Link
2: None There is a much greater risk where you have children being authorised as CHISs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) These schemes are delivering state-of-the-art technology to provide law enforcement agencies with the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) I appreciate that a recent rural crime strategy from the National Police Chiefs’ Council covered the - Speech Link
5: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) The first is the combined Supreme Court and Privy Council decision in two appeals, Jogee and Ruddock, - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) Morrison of course had been leader of the London County Council, which, pre-war, had certainly been the - Speech Link
2: None I just hope that local council tax payers, business rate payers and so on will understand the need to - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) I have always supported greater investment by local government pension schemes. - Speech Link
4: None My amendment on the health duty would bring the legislation in line with what the Greater London Authority - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) boroughs, the Common Council of the City of London and Transport for London. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) It is right that local areas, including Greater Manchester, Oxford and London, which has also been mentioned - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) I assume that, when we discuss a key route network outside Greater London, the Minister has in mind, - Speech Link
4: None No amount of government schemes coming out of London will drive the level of change necessary unless - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 29 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) “taxi tax” sobriquet. - Speech Link
2: Joshua Reynolds (LD - Maidenhead) Meanwhile, passengers in London, where Transport for London has prevented the agency model, will see - Speech Link
3: Joshua Reynolds (LD - Maidenhead) That reassurance would help to put our minds at ease, along with council leaders and council chief executives - Speech Link
4: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Of course there will be companies that will list under the current tax regime, and changing the tax would - Speech Link
5: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) There has been a 46% reduction in sugar in fizzy drinks since the original tax came into force, and 89% - Speech Link