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Commons Chamber
Road Safety Powers: Parish and Town Councils - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Deirdre Costigan (Lab - Ealing Southall) Friend agree it is important that we consider whether councils that already have the right to set speed - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We do not have parish councils in Northern Ireland, but councils have an important role. - Speech Link
3: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab - Amber Valley) That can be integral to ensuring that county councils or unitary councils listen and collect data, which - Speech Link
4: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) Friend agree that it is local people, local parish councils and local town councils who understand their - Speech Link
5: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) If necessary, could we not also mandate that councils put aside more funding for this area? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Day - Thu 26 Jun 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) having a debate on putting the covenant fully into law is to share the best practice we see in local councils - Speech Link
2: Graham Leadbitter (SNP - Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey) Many councils with military bases, particularly air force bases, are in rural areas with small populations - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) He talked about the spending of other Government Departments and councils effectively enabling homeland - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Two-thirds of councils rely on agency staff to address capacity issues. - Speech Link
2: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) , the LGA, the County Councils Network, CPRE, the CLA and the NFU. - Speech Link
3: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) It could have supported councils and planning to move faster and be more consistent. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and joint president of the East Sussex Association of Local Councils. - Speech Link
5: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) This Bill perpetrates the myth that councils and councillors are a block on progress. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - Tue 24 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool Riverside) I welcome proposals to redistribute £2 billion in funding from wealthier councils. - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) We hear from councils that it is putting them on the brink of insolvency. - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) The Minister says “All councils” from a sedentary position. - Speech Link
4: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) It is not fair for outcomes or for councils either. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
War Memorials - Tue 24 Jun 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) However, in practice responsibility falls to overstretched councils or passes quietly from one hand to - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Working with the local authority, Rochford district council and the then-developer David Wilson Homes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Green-belt Development: Rayleigh and Wickford - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Basildon’s reg 18 plans should be found unsound on those grounds alone.Moving on to the Rochford district - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) As part of that, Rochford and Basildon councils were each awarded approximately £228,000 for local plan - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Incontinence - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) well as a lot of inconvenience for the health professionals working with patients, particularly the district - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) address the stigma, but it must be a UK-wide approach and not simply the decision of individual councils - Speech Link
3: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab - Penrith and Solway) Half of the councils that responded in the 2024 survey did provide Changing Places toilets. - Speech Link
4: Lauren Sullivan (Lab - Gravesham) Councils cannot see this as an easy way to cut money. - Speech Link
5: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Liberal Democrat research from 45 councils found that the number of public toilets had fallen by 14% - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Water Safety Education - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Does he feel there is a role for Education Ministers and local councils to identify where the problems - Speech Link
2: Julia Buckley (Lab - Shrewsbury) Our local stakeholders and councils came together and launched a water safety campaign. - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) funding from the Conservative Government—the Conservative Member of Parliament or the Liberal Democrat district - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Businesses in Rural Areas - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) delighted that some innovative, locally led programmes have been delivered by Lib Dem-led North Norfolk district - Speech Link
2: Tim Roca (Lab - Macclesfield) which—as you will know, Mr Western—is a beautiful part of the world, on the western edge of the Peak district - Speech Link
3: Joe Morris (Lab - Hexham) to ensure that we can get to appointments and to businesses, but the lack of advertisements from councils - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) Finally, it would require councils to create an enforcement plan to stop the sale of stolen tools at - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) Finally, councils would be required to put in place an enforcement plan to crack down on the sale of - Speech Link