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Lords Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None My understanding is that it does not include town councils, but I wonder whether the Minister could clarify - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) It is a district or county council in England, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Transport Infrastructure: Devon and Somerset - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) disappointed about certain parts of Devon, which I am beginning to learn about, and especially Mid Devon District - Speech Link
2: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) We live with them, not just as MPs, but as constituents and members of district councils. - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) Friend is that anyone who has ever worked as a parish, district or county councillor, as a Member of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) We will engage councils about those options as reform progresses. - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) In a community such as the Lake District, developers will sell anything they can build, but will it meet - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Locally, Warwick District Council had an application just last week that the planning committee was essentially - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Ministers are aware that Maldon District Council was allocated £5 million of levelling-up funding. - Speech Link
5: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) I know how important it is to deliver affordable homes in the Lake district, in the hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Colleen Fletcher (Lab - Coventry North East) He was on a pain driver and I could give him liquid morphine, but that shot, which only a district nurse - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) A district nurse may not be able to push palliative care to the extent that a palliative care specialist - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) partnership is evolving to build a local hospice led by St Elizabeth hospice, including the local NHS, councils - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Lancaster and Fleetwood (Cat Smith) will take part in the 40-mile Keswick to Barrow walk through the Lake district - Speech Link
5: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) The hospital, social services, Macmillan, Marie Curie, the GP, the pharmacy, the district nurses and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Large-scale Solar Farms - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) constituency have been welcomed by local communities, because the developers have spoken to parish councils - Speech Link
2: Karen Bradley (Con - Staffordshire Moorlands) councils to have the appropriate training to identify and measure fully the cumulative impact of these - Speech Link
3: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) I slightly disagree with her: I would rather my district or county council were deciding on the matter - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Does it mean that every district council must have so many? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) for Security, is looking at these issues, and is, in some cases, providing support to councillors or councils - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Even in Warwick, my little local district council has built more than Andy Street. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flood Recovery Framework - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) Everyone in this House is aware of the pressures that councils are already under, with limited resources - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) provision in other areas.I visited Newton Poppleford the next day, on 10 May, and spoke to the village’s district - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) For some councils, the scale of flooding is a challenge; they must deal with grant applications from - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) for the flood recovery framework to be activated was 25 internally flooded residential units over a district - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) Will the Secretary of State ensure that councils get the resources they need to continue the vital work - Speech Link
2: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) inescapable enforcement, including massive boosts to the resources of trading standards, so that local councils - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) although we have made very significant gains in narrowing that gap thanks to the tireless efforts of local councils - Speech Link
4: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) an opportunity to change the life chances and the life course of thousands of children in the Stroud district - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) as a case of wicked mis-selling by developers, because it is in very large measure attributable to councils - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) same householders will also be paying council tax to cover such maintenance in other estates in their district - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cavity Wall Insulation - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

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) I have also talked to an employee of East Devon District Council who is responsible for the maintenance - Speech Link