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Written Statements
Long-term Plan for Housing - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) To that end, we have expanded the £1 billion ENABLE Build guarantee scheme to increase the amount of finance - Speech Link


Grand Committee
East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) This will be the first of a new type of local government institution, a mayoral combined county authority - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) a mayor in this instance, the Government and the Minister’s department are proceeding. - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) Paragraph 45 of the report cites the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities explaining - Speech Link
4: None The Government really must address the financial uncertainty in local government. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) As with all local government, as I say, scrutiny, audit and risk are important. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) I beg to move,That the Local Government Finance Report (England) 2024–25 (HC 318), which was laid before - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) government finance settlement, the Department set out that councils could seek additional support from - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) was taken out of local government finance, and when there was consensus on how to fund local public - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I believe this local government finance settlement delivers on all three. - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) government finance settlement. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ministerial Severance: Reform - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) Will she take this opportunity to apologise for the private finance initiative schemes that her party - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) leave and be replaced in their Department. - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Arts, Minister for Transport, Solicitor General, Attorney General for the first time under one Prime - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) I am sure Peter Bone’s former constituents, many of whom will have had calls from the Department for - Speech Link
5: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Make no mistake: ordinary citizens owing money to HMRC or the Department for Work and Pensions would - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nursery Provision: South-west England - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) more action from his Department to deliver for parents who are desperately short of nursery provision.During - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) Well, if we do not sort out housing issues and pay and reward issues and there is no transport—all the - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) costs faced by nurseries, which include rent and staff salaries, so nurseries are continuing to cross-finance - Speech Link
4: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport asked about support for local authorities. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 06 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) , the local government finance system is essentially broken and relies on a regressive and unfair council - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) Friend agree that the Welsh Labour Government should be supporting local businesses such as the Kinmel - Speech Link
3: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) growth through the UK shared prosperity fund and we are investing billions to improve local transport - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) projects on hold or awaiting finance. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Finance Bill.Tuesday 6 February—Opposition day (4th allotted day). - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Friend join me in thanking our local teams for all they do? - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He will know that the next Home Office questions are on 26 February and the next Department for Transport - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He will know that the next Transport questions is on 8 February. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Distress in Local Authorities - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) Our report recommends that the Government must include additional funding in the local government finance - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Does he agree that what the Government and the Department need to look at now is how we can enable local - Speech Link
3: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) That is a challenge for any Government—I look at both Front Benches here—because if we reform local finance - Speech Link
4: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) That does not seem a great way for local government to operate. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Coastal and Rural Communities: Employment - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) It could be a matter for the Department for Transport, because one of the greatest barriers to employment - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) “What is the local transport infrastructure like?” - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) across Government to further minimise transport barriers to labour market participation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bragg (Lab - Life peer) The Department for Education met only 27% of its target for newly trained music teachers last year.In - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We have to acknowledge the long-term impact of more than a decade of government austerity on local government—and - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Madingley (XB - Life peer) We called for increased levels of public finance, further tax relief opportunities, renewed efforts to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) The point about the importance of listening to local government and local institutions is exemplified - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) life for people across the UK, focusing on regeneration and transport, and supporting cultural, creative - Speech Link