Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) as a case of wicked mis-selling by developers, because it is in very large measure attributable to councils - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) same householders will also be paying council tax to cover such maintenance in other estates in their district - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the cost of remediation, which none the less continue and are the matters that concern insurers and finance - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None without modification, there would be no duty on a combined county authority to enable, for example, a district - Speech Link
2: None The regulations recognise the legitimate interest of such district councils in certain decisions which - Speech Link
3: None of the East Midlands Combined County Authority, as well as the Chartered Institute of Public Finance - Speech Link
4: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) I do not see that provision of finance in these regulations, so I would welcome a response on that.Will - Speech Link
5: None We are keen to ensure that local councils are supported where the Government have failed. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Lords message to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, followed by Second Reading of the Finance - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) Yesterday afternoon, Arun District Council planning committee considered an application. - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) However, Scottish councils are still facing budget issues in this area. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) If I were a chief finance officer of a local council, I would be extremely worried about the projection - Speech Link
2: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) A fine example of this is Fenland District Council, in Cambridgeshire, which has yet again cut council - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LD - Life peer) I very much agree with the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Eaton, that finance - 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
Mentions:
1: Jane Hunt (Con - Loughborough) What steps he is taking to tackle non-payment of housing benefit to district councils when the beneficiary - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) benefits and are a last safety net, but their future is uncertain because of the vagaries of NHS Scotland finance - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Anyone who walks around towns will see the lack of investment, as councils are struggling and going bust - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Between 2010 and 2023, councils have sold 75,000 public assets for £15 billion to maintain some semblance - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) More finance means more fraud. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) In Europe, long-term institutional finance provides secure, well-managed rented accommodation; in this - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) system and increased housing demand by means of immigration, but done nothing to restrict the supply of finance - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, James Palmer, who was also formerly the leader of East Cambridgeshire District - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) downsizing incentives, incentivising to sell properties from the private rented sector and institutional finance - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Our £1.2 billion local authority housing fund is providing capital funding directly to councils. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) The regulations recognise the legitimate interest of such district councils in certain decisions that - Speech Link
2: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I served—I think he might have served as well—for 14 years as an elected district or county councillor - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) I am not seeing that provision of finance in these regulations, so I would welcome a response on that.Labour - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) We also put forward a Greater Brighton devolution plan that would have combined district authorities - Speech Link
5: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) I do not want to detain the Committee with a long digression on local government finance, but does my - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) and, as some Members will be all too aware, for pension funds such as those of London Capital & Finance - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) When it comes to local councils, we have the same situation on speed. - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) Given the cuts, it is incumbent on councils to make sensible decisions. - Speech Link
4: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) , Housing and Communities and Homes England to continue their discussions with Folkestone and Hythe District - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Taking into account that additional funding, the final local government finance settlement for 2024-25 - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) This is a particular issue in Byker, where the cost of heating with a district heating system is considerably - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) While welcome, these short-term, short-notice extensions provide little time for local councils to plan - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) from concept, through planning and a land deal, and on to site in eight months, so do not tell me that councils - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The most recent local government finance settlement for 2024-25 makes some £64.7 billion available to - Speech Link