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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Apr. 19 2024

Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024
Document: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024 (webpage)

Found: Development and democracy are mutually reinforcing, and we underscore the importance of free and fair

Lords Chamber
Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) At the local level, local planning authorities must have the central role, despite cuts in planning department - Speech Link
2: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) independent and respected judiciary, applying the rule of law, is fundamental to the operation of our democracy - Speech Link
3: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) Trust in our democracy depends on it. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) At local level, it is vital that local authorities can respond to the dual challenge of delivering housing - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Competition and Markets Authority

Apr. 18 2024

Source Page: The CMA at 10: Past reflections and a look ahead to the next decade of promoting competition and protecting consumers
Document: empirically established again and again at country and sector level (PDF)

Found: effect on the level of GDP per capita and economic growth after ten years, while its effect on the democracy

Parliamentary Research
The Horn of Africa and the Red Sea - CBP-10000
Apr. 18 2024

Found: authoritarian leaders, after months of popular protest in 2019 ushered in the hope of a transition to democracy

Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) on the loss of his father.A report from the Jo Cox Foundation called the abuse of MPs a “threat to democracy - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that the defending democracy taskforce, headed by the Minister for Security, is looking - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) That is a huge achievement and we should praise his local police force for its part in it. - Speech Link
4: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham) The Conservatives have cut 21,000 police officers, decimating our local neighbourhood teams. - Speech Link
5: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Even in Warwick, my little local district council has built more than Andy Street. - Speech Link

Bill Documents
18 Apr 2024 - Select Committee report
18th Report of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] 2023-24

Found: Government Act 1999, (c) section 9 of the Local Government Act 2000, (d) section 98 of the Local

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Correspondence to the Public Audit Committee from Stephen Boyle, the Auditor General for Scotland, 18 April 2024
 The Auditor General for Scotland's Draft Work Programme, April 2024

Correspondence Apr. 18 2024

Committee: Public Audit Committee

Found: transparency around public spending and decision-making is a critical part of effective government and democracy

Select Committee
Letter to the Chair from Delyth Jewell MS, Chair, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee re: UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 25 March 2024

Correspondence Apr. 17 2024

Committee: International Agreements Committee

Found: signal a commitment for any immediate action from the UK government, the devolved administrations, local

Select Committee
Promoter Evidence Part 1 of 4

Scrutiny evidence Apr. 17 2024

Committee: Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] Committee

Found: They were served a notice by the local parish council under th e Ch ancel Repairs Act

Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) We should not be responsible for tying the hands of any body, such as a local authority, that might be - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) But reducing South Africa to a wasteland would lead not to a nonracial democracy but to more oppression - Speech Link
3: None those views with the threat of legal redress belongs in a totalitarian regime, not in a constitutional democracy - Speech Link
4: None to local authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? - Speech Link