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Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None the Minister on the basic principle of trust law: trustees, whatever they are called—board members, council - Speech Link
2: Lord Etherton (XB - Life peer) I support both those amendments, but my provision is much wider; it calls for a more general review, - Speech Link
3: None within the meaning of section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993,(b) beneficiaries of the local government - Speech Link
4: None It calls for an urgent and overdue review of the comparative tax rates paid by online and physical businesses - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) decisions are made on council tax rates; additional support for rural councils through a £15 million - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) It is not to be put aside for later use, nor wasted on myriad council hobby-horses and schemes. - Speech Link
3: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) This is in direct contrast to Labour-run Hastings Borough Council, whose independent auditor, Grant Thornton - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 06 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) in their council tax. - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Will the Chancellor look at doing that to support all our local economies? - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Will the Minister finally agree today to commission a new, truly independent review? - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) We had an independent review in 2019 under Lord Morse. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Such schemes to tackle the factors behind non-attendance, such as bullying, mental health issues or the - Speech Link
2: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) my number one priority.”In 2022, the Department published detailed guidance for schools, academies, independent - Speech Link
3: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) In my local authority, Newcastle City Council, it rose by 282% in just six years, and other areas have - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) We have deployed attendance advisers to support local authorities and a number of trusts. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Labour has not, and it would turn us back on the EU, union reform, tax hikes and much more.Further business - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) The scheme has gone ahead with local councillors’ support, but without adequate traffic management or - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I know that elsewhere in the country such schemes have caused massive disruption, particularly to local - Speech Link
4: Nadia Whittome (Lab - Nottingham East) the various investigations that are taking place, and tell us whether the Government will convene an independent - Speech Link
5: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) Recent court documents appear to show that, following an internal Foreign Office review of their legality - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) The funding system for the arts is broken at central, local and Arts Council levels. - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) However, her voice is certainly heard loud and clear through the independent review of libraries that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Industrial Strategy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) Andy Haldane, who had been appointed chair of the independent Industrial Strategy Council to oversee - Speech Link
2: Lord Drayson (Lab - Life peer) its implementation, ideally by the same Minister who led its development; and, finally, a biannual review - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) Because of Brexit, the UK now has more trade agreements in effect than any other sovereign independent - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) who have to bear the brunt through council tax. - Speech Link
2: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) council, which wants to ditch the local air festival, our flagship tourism event, and to abandon the - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) The independent review of net zero also championed that idea. Have the Government looked at that? - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) As I said, the Treasury keep tax policy under review all the time—that is a mantra, but it is true. - 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) One issue is that we are essentially creating a two-tier society of council tax payers: people who pay - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) I strongly believe that we need to close down the trend to create two tiers of council tax payers —those - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) I rise to support the amendment. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Teesworks Joint Venture - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None “With permission, I would like to update the House on the independent review into the South Tees Development - Speech Link
2: None At the request of the Tees Valley Mayor, an extraordinary independent review was launched by my right - Speech Link
3: None and Rural Affairs and His Majesty’s Treasury will also consider the recommendation regarding landfill tax - Speech Link
4: None The independent review has cleared the Tees Valley mayor and the combined authority of lurid allegations - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Instead, the Secretary of State appointed a panel of three independent local government experts. - Speech Link