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

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Bosworth) My Liberal Democrat-run local council is one of those without an up-to-date local plan. - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) through the long-term plan for towns that Lynn has just been awarded can be used to complement those schemes - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Council tax bills have rocketed by almost £500 since the Tories came to power, on top of which Conservative - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) The future homes standard now has centralised support, but local authorities such as Leeds want to go - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) The person who is signing has to say, “By the way, I may support this local campaign or petition, but - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) statutory safeguards, ranging from authorisation of the original warrant, which must be approved by an independent - Speech Link
3: None We support tackling fraud. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) avoidance schemes, has been investigated, fined or prosecuted. - Speech Link
5: None universal credit, council tax benefit, widowed parent’s allowance, state pension, state pension credit - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the elected Government of the day, whoever that is, the space and flexibility to decide on whatever schemes - Speech Link
2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) I ask the Minister what has happened to that council. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bshp - Bishops) Their freehold ownership includes approximately 100 commercial units on the estate, where independent - Speech Link
4: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) current law so that non-litigation costs payable on enfranchisement do not attract stamp duty land tax - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) , we should be making it easier for people to use the bus, come to town and support Barnstaple’s local - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Both of whose families have used schemes to avoid millions of pounds of tax, smearing a working-class - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) In Birmingham, it is putting up council tax by 21%. - Speech Link
4: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) Warrington Borough Council has gone too far in its money-making schemes. - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Lady’s constituents and others a 21% council tax rise, and what are they getting in exchange? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) shock of the pandemic.We will also further support the UK’s independent film sector through a new UK - Speech Link
2: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) relief for UK-made independent films. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Waste and Food Distribution - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Our local food banks and community-based kitchens, which are often based in faith settings, support those - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) home in North Devon, where we have a separate food caddy collection, so many thanks to North Devon Council - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) By reporting on food wastage, we support redistribution schemes and tackle the crisis of food waste that - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) It is 10 months since the publication of John Shropshire’s independent review into labour shortages in - Speech Link
5: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) The Government will also provide resource funding to be spent from this financial year to support local - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) I suppose, in truth, that I want a review of all forms of title. - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) They will accept the additional council tax generated by the new properties, but will not take on the - Speech Link
3: Lord Thurlow (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Reducing ground rents and their review patterns—agreed but flawed. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) The same householders will also be paying council tax to cover such maintenance in other estates in their - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cross-Solent Ferries - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) They effectively avoid tax perfectly legally because they pay back their shareholders through loans. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) That means that when local issues arise around local services, locally led solutions are the best way - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Second Reading of the Finance (No. 2) Bill.Thursday 18 April—Debate on a motion on access to redress schemes - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) I have the privilege of being the chair of the Independent Council for Road Safety International. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Offord (Con - Hendon) Following a fire in a council-owned property last summer, Barnet Council commissioned an independent - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The Building Safety Regulator is also aware, keeping the situation under review and ensuring that what - Speech Link
5: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) What annoys people most is that the local council, run by the Liberal Democrats, will not scrutinise - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Music Education - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) local authority music service. - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Local authority music services that employ teachers will also receive support. - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) organisations equitably with schoolteachers by providing a grant for their pension schemes would cost - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) their excellent work against the backdrop of a re-competition of the lead organisations led by Arts Council - Speech Link