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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Many local people have been involved in clearing up the mess—in particular the brilliant young farmers - Speech Link
2: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) Friend, because whoever is leading in a local authority should be meeting with MPs. - Speech Link
3: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) industry experts and local artists. - Speech Link
4: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) The Government are absolutely committed to supporting local businesses and local high streets. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Private Equity - Thu 20 Nov 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) Canada’s major pension funds, for example, have used their size to deepen allocations to private equity - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) need for large pension funds to be able to invest in private equity. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rogue Builders - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) , the local council and planning department, and multiple victims of its activities. - Speech Link
2: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) advice from a solicitor regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Cooper (Lab - Mid Cheshire) The streets were not adopted by the local authority, nor the sewers by United Utilities. Why? - Speech Link
4: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) The developer directly contravened planning conditions by not paying the bond, and yet the local authority - Speech Link
5: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) authority trading standards. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic and Taxation Policies: Jobs, Growth and Prosperity - Thu 13 Nov 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Howard of Lympne (Con - Life peer) We were expanding and we wanted to recruit, so we went to the local jobcentre. - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) That sucked demand out of local economies and was bad for growth. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) Our factory in Neatishead employs many local people, most of whom live within our community. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Remembrance Day: Armed Forces - Tue 11 Nov 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) Members, I had the honour this weekend of being part of a local remembrance service. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Bonavia (Lab - Stevenage) He was the son of a local chimney sweep. - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) Alderman Tate appointed a local timber merchant, George Bennett, as acting commander. - Speech Link
4: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) That was a DWP evaluation of the effectiveness of automatic pension forecast letters. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None of the Secretary of State or the authority of an immigration officer for the purposes of P’s removal - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Local authorities and others are looking at that. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) These are facts that various local organisations can prove. - Speech Link
4: None It would result in further pressures on local services and the local authorities that may have to accommodate - Speech Link
5: None authority capacity for supporting refugees. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 04 Nov 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) We are legislating for that in the Pension Schemes Bill by requiring all local government pension scheme - Speech Link
2: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) The Pension Schemes Bill will introduce requirements for local government pension scheme pools to work - Speech Link
3: Alan Mak (Con - Havant) , but around £3 trillion in pension funds sits idle. - Speech Link
4: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) We need to see UK pension funds investing in our most innovative, fastest-growing companies. - Speech Link
5: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) Sterling 20 is a new, investor-led partnership between the UK’s 20 largest pension funds and insurers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
London Boroughs: Financial Support - Mon 03 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) Worse, how can a band C local authority house in Cumbria’s Keswick pay more in council tax than that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We are supporting our councils, which is why we have increased the overall spend on local authority funding - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) fund surpluses in local authority pension schemes as a reason to have an employer contribution holiday - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) There is much to be done in looking at local authority pension funds—I agree with the noble Baroness - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage - Mon 03 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None planning authority under regulation 77 (approval of local planning authority).”(2) In regulation 75( - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) We need to make it easy for the development corporations to raise the funds and for the pension funds - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Secondly, it opens the door for local pension funds, particularly the Local Government Pension Scheme - Speech Link
4: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) Section 123(2A) of the Local Government Act 1972 provides that the local authority may not dispose of - Speech Link
5: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) authority, the local authority should consult. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Property Service Charges - Thu 30 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) Like many new estates, it was built by private developers with no arrangements made for the local authority - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) After all, these developers do not have to pay a community sum to the local authority—indeed, they have - Speech Link
3: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) They pay full council tax to their local authority, as everyone does, but on a growing number of estates - Speech Link
4: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) We heard one story of a particular local authority that demands semi-permeable paving as part of its - Speech Link
5: Jim Dickson (Lab - Dartford) They are paying for the local authority to maintain roads and parks in other parts of the area, but not - Speech Link