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Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Liam Byrne (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 315 Labour Aye votes vs 1 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 327 Noes - 182
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Liam Byrne (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 336 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 357 Noes - 174
Written Question
Mayoral Development Corporations: Birmingham
Monday 1st December 2025

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his proposed timetable is for establishing a West Midlands mayoral development company for east Birmingham.

Answered by Miatta Fahnbulleh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

I understand that the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) board has agreed on 17 October 2025, the intention to create Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) in East Birmingham by Autumn 2026. WMCA is planning to carry out public consultation in early 2026 ahead of submitting a formal notification to the Secretary of State to establish the MDC in summer 2026.


Under the Localism Act 2011, Mayors have the powers to designate Mayoral Development Areas (MDAs) and once the Secretary of State receives a notification per section 197(6) of the 2011 Act, he must by order establish an MDC for the area designated by the Mayor.

I look forward to working with the Mayor on this important growth initiative.

Scheduled Event - 27 Nov 2025, 1:30 p.m. - Add to calendar
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Commons - Westminster Hall debate - Westminster Hall
Select Committee Statement on the Eleventh Report of the Business and Trade Committee, Toward a new doctrine for economic security, HC 835
MP: Liam Byrne
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Business and Trade Committee

"It is a privilege to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Lewell. Let me record my thanks to the Backbench Business Committee for making time for this debate; to a brilliant team of Select Committee members—it is a privilege to serve alongside them—and to a first-class team who help …..."
Liam Byrne - View Speech

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Business and Trade Committee

"We have a very good Minister in place, but in a way, the report is designed to ensure that that Minister is empowered in his work and across Government. But first we must understand, and help the Minister have the powers to understand, the full breadth of the UK supply …..."
Liam Byrne - View Speech

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Business and Trade Committee

"I am grateful to the hon. Member for the question and for his sterling work on the Committee as our inquiry has been driven forward over the last seven or eight months. I have not. It was striking to compare the evidence we took with history lessons from the 1920s …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Business and Trade Committee

"I think there is a real opportunity in the course of the next year to modernise the way we export arms, and we will need to do that because of the simple reality that the definition of an arm in new times is very different. Many of our allies talk …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Business and Trade Committee

"I was very grateful to receive the hon. Member’s email. He is absolutely right. The shutdown of branches all over our country is a really serious problem that creates real risks. One answer is to ensure that we lean in behind the Post Office plans to create banking hubs, not …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Business and Trade Committee

"This is a very good point. We want to ensure that there is an enshrinement of the principles of the Bill, so that the private sector has clarity, certainty and confidence in the durability of the economic security regime that we operate in this country. In the inquiry, we heard …..."
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