Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) Especially in an election year, our democracy is too precious to leave to chance. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) survival of our myriad local newspapers the length and breadth of this sceptred isle? - Speech Link
3: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) Gentleman will be aware that in the past we have had a local news fund. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The Government know that we cannot overstate the importance of those publications to our democracy and - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) All those points are worth making, and I would add this one: all local authorities have trading standards - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) We all need to recognise the greater potential for interference in our democracy from foreign states - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) I understand some of the pressures on local authorities across the country; there are pressures on the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is essential in supporting the strengthening of democracy - Speech Link
2: Sara Britcliffe (Con - Hyndburn) When we talk about the life of an MP when we go to local schools, they always ask us, “What’s a typical - Speech Link
3: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) The Bill will ensure that the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association can continue to strengthen democracy - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) It is open and wide-ranging in its promotion of democracy within the Commonwealth context. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) attention to the testimony of “Sara” and other accounts from women who told us of rapes by jamadars or local - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As the ICAI report highlighted“the UK government decided to deprioritise democracy objectives”.I would - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) There are 1.2 million individuals or families on local authority waiting lists for social housing. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) authorities to provide the housing they need in their local community according to their local desires - Speech Link
3: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) We need to create a plan developed from a national, not regional or local, perspective. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) referred to, but we have seen that many of those properties which were sold to create this property-owning democracy - Speech Link
5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The Act puts local people at the heart of development. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) Gentleman’s local authority, I have been briefed by the National Cyber Security Centre on that incident - Speech Link
2: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) When is the Minister going to get a grip on this serious threat to our democracy from China? - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) With local and national elections on the horizon, it is vital that voters can have full confidence in - Speech Link
4: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) That is why we are developing our strategy through the Defending Democracy Taskforce and undertaking - Speech Link
5: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) What is the Minister doing to work with the Welsh Government and local authorities across the whole of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) information on visas—including Schengen visas—and discrepancies between the advice to schools from local - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) by the British Youth Council, which had such a key role in engaging young people in the process of democracy - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) A report by Universities UK emphasises the importance of international students to local economies throughout - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) men while excluding lesbians who want to play on women-only teams.Recently, a lesbian coming to view democracy - Speech Link
2: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Deselected by her local Labour Party in Northampton North, Maureen was reinstated by the national executive - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) treatments, including on the NHS website, and have launched a tool that provides greater transparency on local - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Heaton-Harris (Con - Daventry) Friends will welcome the fact that, once again, Northern Ireland has local politicians taking decisions - Speech Link
2: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) That Christmas market, in the home of Magna Carta, was beloved by local residents, but the council has - Speech Link
3: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) democracy”, and has “lost its moral compass” and is suffocating local voices because its only objective - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jane Stevenson (Con - Wolverhampton North East) in on me in Wolverhampton North East last week, and I spoke about the importance of aerospace to my local - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) For the sake of freedom, democracy and global safety, it is so important that Ukraine prevails. - Speech Link