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
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
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
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
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
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
Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) However, due to damping, only 25% of the new benefit has been received by rural councils. - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) In 2022-24, just five of the 467 councils delivered their audits on time. - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) We are raising the funding floor from 3% to 4%—an ask of the district councils. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) educational needs or disabilities should receive the high-quality support they deserve, but schools and councils - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) of the affordability of housing and the cost of living crisis, and a new report out today by London Councils - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) is oversubscribed and last year more than 50 children—almost all from one school—were taken out of district - Speech Link
4: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) What measures will he take where councils underperform, and thus let children down? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) life is quite important.To sum all of this up, the Government have to work very carefully with the district - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) management, agroforestry and uptake of low carbon fertilisers.We have just found out that our Lib Dem-run district - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) recognising the benefits of stone walls, because in areas such as mine in Copeland, across the Lake District - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) If the Government were to give to local councils, and not just national parks, the power to be far more - Speech Link