Mentions:
1: Baroness Crawley (Lab - Life peer) Their local authorities may not be able to finance such activity, and the case would therefore be dropped - Speech Link
2: None some time, through local government, but that should not mean that their funding and resources need - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) The Department for Business and Trade is engaged in relation to post-Brexit product safety standards. - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) , involving in my department, Defra, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and the Department - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) That is why I never thought it was correct, for example, for councillors to be part of the local government - Speech Link
2: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) grassroots-authored changes to the local government landscape. - Speech Link
3: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) I do not want to detain the Committee with a long digression on local government finance, but does my - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) Within the conversation about how the funding model for local government is changed and evolved to meet - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Would he allow local authorities, and give them the finance, to once again build social rented homes, - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) I think he would also acknowledge the complexity of the local government finance world and, in particular - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Figures from the Department for Transport lay the issue bare—these statistics just cannot be argued with - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) £101 million for local transport. - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) Departments worse off: less money for education, less for local government, and less for most Departments - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) The Local Government Association reports that more than a third of local authorities are saying that - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) have worked hard on it, as well as the Department for Transport, National Highways and indeed my predecessor - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) What steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of occupations for which apprenticeships - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) What steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of occupations for which apprenticeships - Speech Link
3: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Wakley, who is disabled and travels to her college on the bus, but her blue badge does not allow free transport - Speech Link
4: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide places for all children, including those with special - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) determining the student finance arrangements that apply to students eligible for funding. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) The Department for Transport is working with local authorities to ensure that they have charging strategies - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) local transport plans, which cover everything including rail, road and even buses and, of course, potholes - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) , making the journey for SMEs to get business finance far easier. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) failure in local government finance, the turnout in my local election in Thurrock was less than 20% - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The needs of those individuals and groups should be addressed.On local government finance, my local authority - Speech Link
3: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) I am confident that the robust plan that the Government set out for spending that money on other transport - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) of local government and local government finance. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I thank her also for highlighting the challenges constraining this, particularly local government. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) industrial strategy, underinvestment in our transport network and the reduction of local government - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The most recent local government finance settlement for 2024-25 makes some £64.7 billion available to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) It is my first week in the department, so I do not have an answer for her now, but I will speak to the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) I heard Opposition Members speaking about local government finance; I welcome the announcement of £5 - Speech Link
2: Chris Grayling (Con - Epsom and Ewell) That requires, over the coming months, the Department for Transport and the Treasury to work together - Speech Link
3: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) in the Department of Finance—we have had three of them—did not even bring forward a budget that could - Speech Link
4: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Fleetwood) However, constituents also raised funding for schools, roads and public transport, and the local authorities - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) It should be scrapped.There was nothing for local government, and that will be ringing in the ears of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bshp - Bishops) Will they encourage working with the third sector and local groups? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Jones (Con - Life peer) I hope the Foreign Secretary will tell me that his department has started to think about what should - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) As HART’s local partner, the Reverend Canon Hassan John, told me before today’s debate when I asked him - Speech Link
4: Lord Moore of Etchingham (Non-affiliated - Life peer) practice, very warm, although I should say to the Foreign Secretary that I am not referring to his department - Speech Link