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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 02 Dec 2025
NHS Industrial Action

"My Lords, is it not the case that under the last Government, the health service was wrecked, and doctors’ salaries were controlled to such a level that they fell behind previous years? We have made a substantial increase in pay; should that not mean that doctors think we are committed …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Fair Funding Review

"My Lords, is it not the case that government funding and support should be based on need and should take into account the ability of the local authority to raise its own resources locally? During the last 13 years, this was moved away from. Are we going back to a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Building Safety Defects

"My Lords, have the Government learned their lesson about being so dependent on the industry when they are making building regulations? Is there not a need now to increase the public ability to set these regulations and not depend on the industry itself?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
UK Community Renewal Fund

"My Lords, is the Minister saying that there is nothing that the Government and this fund can do to help councils and areas such as Knowsley to level up?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2020
Yorkshire: Devolution

"My Lords, the present powers in all the regions are different; in fact, they are a dog’s dinner. When will all the regions be given the same powers, given that they all want more powers?..."
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Written Question
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Reviews
Wednesday 25th July 2018

Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.

Answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Departments do not hold this information.