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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) The family court would also have the power to make an order to require the local authority to take particular - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) a new clause to require local authorities to provide family support services for all children and parents - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) This is a challenge: how do we enable local authorities to have the autonomy to build and link the services - Speech Link
4: None The local authorities do not have the resources themselves, so they go to private providers and the costs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) and debt that is up, and it is no wonder that the British people are asking what they have to show for - Speech Link
2: Mohammad Yasin (LAB - Bedford) The Government have pledged up to £15 million in local capacity funding to support local authorities - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) For the past 13 years, we have seen how the Conservatives have cut, cut and cut, and finally crashed - Speech Link
4: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) responsible, necessary decisions for the good of the economy—for the vulnerable, for families and for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Refugees from Ukraine - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) have supported, and continue to support, the work that the Government have done to assist Ukraine with - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) The British people have stepped up and now it is time for the Government to catch up.The Minister, hon - Speech Link
3: Peter Bone (CON - Wellingborough) we can speed up the process and get vulnerable women and children to local authorities quickly, rather - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) For them to be moved unaccompanied requires the consent of the Ukrainian Government and the Polish authorities - Speech Link
5: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) joint letter from the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales to the UK Minister for Housing, they have - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Committee stage - Thu 20 Jan 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) advocates for family hubs and advises local authorities on how to establish them. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) , this gives the NHS and local authorities the best platform on which to build new ways of working. - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) While we encourage local authorities and the NHS to work together as much as possible and pool their - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I am grateful to all who have contributed to this debate and for the number of issues that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
2nd reading - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) The NHS has asked for more flexibility to enable local leaders to try out new things—not as a free for - Speech Link
2: Lord Bradley (LAB - Life peer) and the failure to address funding for local authorities, where the demand on them for social care provision - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) need for local flexibility and responsiveness, I fear the Minister will have to do more to convince - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) was to have integrated care systems across the country to rationalise and plan local services. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19 (Public Services Committee Report) - Thu 22 Jul 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) The local authorities there all have equal powers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) We have to be prepared to use the charity and the voluntary sectors and even, at times, the private sector - Speech Link
3: Lord Haskel (LAB - Life peer) This means that the Government must provide clarity to local authorities and businesses. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I thank the committee for the report, and I apologise to the House. - Speech Link
5: Lord True (CON - Life peer) We established a vulnerable children and young people survey for local authorities to make sure that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Report stage - Wed 10 Mar 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) , I would plead with the various parts of national government and the local authorities to talk to one - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sanderson of Welton (CON - Life peer) Together with the requirement for local authorities to assess the impact of the duty under Part 4 and - Speech Link
3: None Those provisions require local authorities to ensure consistency with safeguarding and promotion of the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) The Royal College of Psychiatrists called for the Government to reverse the cuts and enable local authorities - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) It has been a long and hard struggle to have the law shift and change, for the agenda and context to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 3rd sitting (Hansard) - Mon 01 Feb 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None I hope the Government will be sympathetic to this and will have listened to the reasons for the need - Speech Link
2: None to local authorities to ensure that the needs identified in the national needs assessment are met and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) That list is the minimum requirement, but local authorities will have the freedom to invite on to the - Speech Link
4: None The current system allows for flexibility of provision to meet the needs of the local authority and the - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) on the ground and extend the duty on local authorities to assess the need for community-based services - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 27 Jan 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Amendments 94 and 104 relate to Part 4 and the new duty on tier 1 local authorities to provide support - Speech Link
2: None We can all appreciate the need for local strategies to be effective and inclusive. - Speech Link
3: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) the abusive relationship you are in and that the pain they inflict is the price you have to pay for - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The commissioner must be free to set the priorities she chooses; it must be wrong for her to have to - Speech Link
5: None The Department for Work and Pensions produces guidance to help local authorities administer the discretionary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Tue 05 Jan 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bertin (CON - Life peer) heard in prior speeches, the Government have introduced a statutory duty for local authorities to provide - Speech Link
2: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (LAB - Life peer) I thank the Minister for all that she has done and will do—and for dedicating the Bill to victims and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (LAB - Life peer) Housing associations stand ready to help local authorities fulfil the new duty to provide support and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Primarolo (LAB - Life peer) of such services, to sit alongside the duty to provide refuges through local authorities and ensure - Speech Link
5: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) Local authorities have a duty to provide school places for looked-after and adopted children as a priority - Speech Link