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Commons Chamber
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
2nd reading - Tue 01 Jul 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) That presents a huge opportunity for our local councils and for others that provide that support. - Speech Link
2: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) Thinking of my toddler and what might happen if I caught coronavirus meant that I sobbed deeply. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Patrick (Lab - Wirral West) It is a story familiar to many of us: local councils were cut to the bone, austerity left public services - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) will take no lectures from somebody who supported a 10% rise in council tax across the Bradford district - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Care Strategy - Thu 10 Oct 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) Only last week, the County Councils Network pointed out that persistent underfunding of local government - Speech Link
2: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) In my experience of councils, they have seen the share of expenditure taken up by social care increase - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
E-scooters: Deaths and Serious Injuries - Wed 22 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) While I was lead member for environment and climate change at South Somerset District Council, we introduced - Speech Link
2: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) those available for public hire are available under the Electric Scooter Trials and Traffic Signs (Coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) From disability campaigners, local councils, digital mobility platforms, and scooter rental firms themselves - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) Those changes close loopholes, ensuring that local councils can continue to hold the correct landlord - 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: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) We will publish statutory guidance for councils on enforcement, and we will explore how this guidance - 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: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) The Government announced additional funding for hospices during the coronavirus pandemic, and in a Westminster - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) 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


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LD - Life peer) Unlike principal councils, local councils do not receive revenue support grant or a share of business - Speech Link
2: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) All councils are getting a poor deal from this Government, and rural councils are getting the worst deal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Local councils matter. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Some district councils are now spending 30% to 40% of their total budget on emergency accommodation.In - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) disastrous Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development and Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) (Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) transpired to be a complete nightmare.I will say a word about planning and pay tribute to Penwith District - Speech Link
3: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) He says:“Councils should be adopting new estates”.He says that he has done“about 50 days’ work…over the - Speech Link
4: None Bedfordshire to prevent management companies from taking on services that are normally provided by local councils - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) It refers, of course, to district councils. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) outdated idea of district councils and is entirely wrong. - Speech Link
3: None Secondly, our arrangements provide for CCAs to be able to liaise with district councils on important - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) District councils have a community safety plan, a committee and a chair, with constant interaction between - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold Reform - Tue 23 May 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) That led to dozens of councils reducing or halting altogether their house building plans, and a collapse - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) , the Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development and Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) (Coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) Because gas for district heating systems is often purchased in bulk in advance, those leaseholders are - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 May 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Too often, councils just will not listen to the complaints or look at the evidence. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LDEM - Life peer) to further stretch resources, particularly in district councils. - Speech Link
3: None I take that as a green light to assist councils to move these hazards off the pavement. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) There have also been various central plant district heating demonstrator projects. - Speech Link