To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

General Committees
Draft Combined Authorities (Finance) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) for combined authorities, the Government undertook informal consultation with officers of constituent councils - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) Minister tell me what the mechanism is by which an upper limit for such a precept would be set, so that councils - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Minister answer how this change would be communicated with the combined authorities, and their component councils - Speech Link
4: Richard Bacon (Con - South Norfolk) We know that district councils, if they wish to put up council tax above a certain amount, have to go - Speech Link
5: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) by any local government reform, so our council tax payers could be paying precepts for the town, the district - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 26 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Most recently, I met representatives of the Stoke-on-Trent business improvement district, and I am delighted - Speech Link
2: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) The high streets taskforce has been an important and productive initiative for local councils of all - Speech Link
3: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) It may be only one and a half miles long, but before the pandemic the Oxford Street district alone generated - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) We recognise that the measures should not come at the cost of overburdening councils that are already - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) For this I am going to Lewes District Council, and Fort Road in Lewes. - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Thirdly, councils provide stable and affordable homes for low-income families, reducing their risk of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) and I want it to be quicker, but we need to accept, therefore, as the Association of His Majesty’s District - Speech Link
2: None When we talked to the Association of His Majesty’s District Judges and others who gave evidence to us - Speech Link
3: None The other problem is with the recruitment of salaried full-time district judges, who are the vast bulk - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None My understanding is that it does not include town councils, but I wonder whether the Minister could clarify - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) It is a district or county council in England, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Transport Infrastructure: Devon and Somerset - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) disappointed about certain parts of Devon, which I am beginning to learn about, and especially Mid Devon District - Speech Link
2: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) We live with them, not just as MPs, but as constituents and members of district councils. - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) Friend is that anyone who has ever worked as a parish, district or county councillor, as a Member of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) We will engage councils about those options as reform progresses. - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) In a community such as the Lake District, developers will sell anything they can build, but will it meet - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Locally, Warwick District Council had an application just last week that the planning committee was essentially - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Ministers are aware that Maldon District Council was allocated £5 million of levelling-up funding. - Speech Link
5: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) I know how important it is to deliver affordable homes in the Lake district, in the hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Colleen Fletcher (Lab - Coventry North East) He was on a pain driver and I could give him liquid morphine, but that shot, which only a district nurse - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) A district nurse may not be able to push palliative care to the extent that a palliative care specialist - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) partnership is evolving to build a local hospice led by St Elizabeth hospice, including the local NHS, councils - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Lancaster and Fleetwood (Cat Smith) will take part in the 40-mile Keswick to Barrow walk through the Lake district - Speech Link
5: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) The hospital, social services, Macmillan, Marie Curie, the GP, the pharmacy, the district nurses and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Large-scale Solar Farms - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) constituency have been welcomed by local communities, because the developers have spoken to parish councils - Speech Link
2: Karen Bradley (Con - Staffordshire Moorlands) councils to have the appropriate training to identify and measure fully the cumulative impact of these - Speech Link
3: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) I slightly disagree with her: I would rather my district or county council were deciding on the matter - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Does it mean that every district council must have so many? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) for Security, is looking at these issues, and is, in some cases, providing support to councillors or councils - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Even in Warwick, my little local district council has built more than Andy Street. - Speech Link