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Lords Chamber
Local Authority Finances - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) continually monitors the local government sector through data and direct engagement with individual councils - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) That is why we have announced such a substantive increase into the funding for councils this year. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) The settlement, which we announced in its final form, represents a real-terms increase for councils compared - Speech Link
4: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) It seems increasingly difficult to justify having parish councils, town councils, district councils, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) This week we mourn the loss of yet another Lake District business, this time a bistro in Coniston, due - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Will the Secretary of State point out to the Chancellor that many councils have used the household support - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) We have more than doubled the maximum fines that councils can issue, with all income from fly-tipping - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) the issue; Labour councils are three times worse than Conservative councils at dealing with fly-tipping - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) We are giving councils extra powers to crack down on fly-tipping, but of course it is up to councils - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) We are giving councils more powers than ever before to deal with fly-tipping. - Speech Link
5: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) I am sure that sure the journey through the English Lake district was inspiration to provide those payments - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) Labour will work with local councils to ensure that their voice has traction in delivering what is needed - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) detail all the different opportunities and concerns and the potential that is out there and that her district - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Protecting and Restoring Wetlands - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) competition, let me say that I have 32 miles of coastline and many lakes—a wetland in the English Lake district - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) market, and to provide guidance and training for national flood management to ensure that land managers, councils - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Support Fund - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Local welfare assistance spending fell 87% from 2010-11 to 2019-20, and 35 councils operated no local - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Many councils have been able to support those families through the household support fund. - Speech Link
3: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Councils and other frontline services report record demand for local welfare support. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Edwards (Lab - Tamworth) A Lichfield District Council cabinet member wrote to me on the state of the council’s finances:“How can - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector: Fiscal Support - Wed 31 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) thanks to the 2022 Budget, they do not have spare money to spend in the pubs and restaurants of the Lake district - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Draft Combined Authorities (Mayors) Filling of Vacancies Order 2017 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) The regulations clarify that the returning officer for a district council in a two-tier area of a combined - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) In respect of the composition of county combined authorities, the role of the district council has been - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) say this as an east midlands Member of Parliament—rightly engages both of our counties and all our district - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) In the evidence session, I heard colleagues talk about some of the risks involved in leaving councils - Speech Link
2: Eddie Hughes (Con - Walsall North) The point is well made: if a set standard is identified that will be accepted universally by councils - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) the appropriate tribunal is not an enforcement body; it is not a weights and measures authority or a district - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Combined Authorities (Mayors) Filling of Vacancies Order 2017 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) Can the Minister give us any update about whether district councils are now satisfied with the roles - Speech Link
2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) I concur with many of the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, in relation to district councils - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) That links to something brought up by the noble Lord, Lord Khan: do we talk to the district councils? - Speech Link