Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) farms in my constituency have been welcomed by local communities, because the developers have spoken to parish - Speech Link
2: Karen Bradley (Con - Staffordshire Moorlands) that the Government need to pause the granting of all applications of this variety and urge district councils - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) nationally significant infrastructure projects, instead of them being determined locally by our district councils - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The new schemes are offered through the Housing Executive and sometimes through local councils. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) In my constituency, the Blackdown Hills parish network has invested in an infra-red camera—a thermal - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) Voluntary and community organisations, and parish, town and community councils can apply for up to £2 - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LD - Life peer) It remains a very strong feeling in the sector that parish and town councils should be able to apply - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) My colleagues around the country are heroes, from those in parish and town councils—mentioned by the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None precept implemented by the Council and cap parish councils from being able to implement a large rise - Speech Link
2: None councils, which decide what level of council tax they need to raise, taking into account their individual - Speech Link
3: None However, this comes with a clear expectation that these councils will take all available steps to mitigate - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robin Walker (Con - Worcester) We have councils under pressure because families can’t get the right support that they need”—a succinct - Speech Link
2: Gen Kitchen (Lab - Wellingborough) village is where my great-grandfather, the Reverend Henry Hacking, served from 1935 to 1938 as the parish - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) Councils are trying to take matters into their own hands, but the Government approved fewer than half - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) Increasing numbers of councils are issuing section 114 notices, effectively declaring bankruptcy, with - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) If councils were properly funded, they would have an important role to provide accommodation for young - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) why that might be, I should declare an interest as my wife is on the planning committee of the local parish - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) The duty introduced through the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act for all local councils to produce a - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) He lived for another 32 years, dying at the age of 81, and is now buried at Aghadrumsee parish graveyard - Speech Link
2: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) England has no Parliament of its own, and its county councils, many of which represent areas larger than - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) Why have the Government allowed the system to become so broken, to the detriment of both local councils - 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: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Of course, that figure will be much higher once we have added increases to parish police and fire precepts - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) My Lords, the place that shaped me most as a priest in the Church of England was the parish of Holy Trinity - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The most recent local government finance settlement for 2024-25 makes some £64.7 billion available to councils - Speech Link