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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Mar 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill

"My Lords, I thoroughly support the amendments, not to the point of wishing to divide on them but to say that the provision of public toilets is something that Parliament should have its eye on and that the Government should keep us in touch with. I do not believe for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill

"My Lords, as I said at Second Reading, I welcome the Bill. That the Government have chosen to encourage the provision of public lavatories is a great public good, because adequate lavatory provision is a liberation for many millions of people, for whom the thought of not finding one when …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill

"My Lords, I urge the Government to take the opportunity to give the Bill some wording that expands its ambit, and to take advantage of the leverage that it gives them—as the noble Lord has noted, it is a generous disbursement of funds—to achieve other policy objectives. The policy objective …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill

"My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for his obiter dicta on the Government’s general intentions in this area, which I applaud. I can see that he has clearly understood the intent of my amendment and disagrees with it. I therefore beg leave to withdraw it...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill

"My Lords, I am attracted to the idea that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, has just advanced. After Second Reading, I had a very long and entertaining conversation with the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, on the technical subject of valuation. Some of it may have stuck …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill

"My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, asked me to speak to Amendment 13 in her name. We very much share the sentiments just expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy. We all support this Bill and want to see it succeed. We want it as a foundation on which …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 18 Jan 2021
Non-Domestic Rating (Lists) (No. 2) Bill

"My Lords, I welcome both Bills. I completely support the noble Lord, Lord Thurlow, in what he said. When we are reforming the rating system, we absolutely need to follow the money and move in the wake of Amazon, and make sure that, at least where we can bite it, …..."
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Written Question
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Monday 14th December 2020

Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the pilot projects funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund will begin; what criteria will be used to select these pilots; and which (1) priority groups, and (2) geographic areas, the Fund will target.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will help to level up and create opportunity across the UK?for people and?places


Funding for the UKSPF will ramp up so that total domestic UK-wide funding will?at least match receipts from EU structural funds, on average reaching around £1.5 billion per?year.?Its funding profile will be set out at the next Spending Review


To help local areas prepare over 2021-22 for the introduction of the UKSPF, the Government will provide?£220 million?additional funding to support our communities to pilot programmes and new approaches. This funding will be delivered UK-wide. Further details will be published in the New Year.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Sep 2020
Devolution in England

"My Lords, will my noble friend look at the proposals in the Policy Exchange document No More Tiers, which proposes that power should reside in communities such as the one I live in now, at Eastbourne, rather than be handed down from higher authorities?..."
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