Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
"Knowsley, which is one of the boroughs that my constituency covers, has gone from being the fifth most deprived local authority in 2010 to being the second most deprived now. One would have expected a Budget such as this, about levelling up, to focus particularly on giving necessary resources to …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
"The Chancellor has promised us a post-covid “age of optimism” and claims that the Budget will deliver it by levelling up the life chances and prospects of those in the north, like my constituents, who have been clobbered disproportionately since 2010 by Tory austerity and cuts that have adversely affected …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 May 2021
Post Office Update
"Serious concerns have been expressed about the conduct of many of the private prosecutions that led up to the 900 or so wrongful convictions of innocent sub-postmasters, including some of my constituents, so why have the Government declined to accept the Justice Committee’s recommendation to introduce a binding and enforceable …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 May 2021
Affordable and Safe Housing for All
"I want to address whether the Government’s proposals help many of the leaseholders in Garston and Halewood in any meaningful way. Liverpool City Council is currently monitoring 149 high-rise residential blocks across the city because of fire safety issues relating to cladding, and the Liverpool Cladiators, among others, are campaigning …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Mar 2021
Liverpool City Council
"I am shocked by the findings that the Secretary of State has outlined to the House today and I assure him that I will read the report extremely carefully once it is published. Does he agree that the priority now must be to protect Liverpool council tax payers’ money and …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Feb 2021
Unsafe Cladding: Protecting Tenants and Leaseholders
"Three and a half years ago, 72 people lost their lives in the horrors of Grenfell Tower, and many hundreds more survivors were injured and traumatised. We must never forget them.
The aftermath of that terrible event revealed the country-wide scandal of developers ignoring building safety and creating homes that …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Jan 2021
Council Tax: Government’s Proposed Increase
"We have the worst recession of any major economy. The virus is still not under control. Many thousands of my constituents in Liverpool and Knowsley have lost their jobs, have lost income and are facing wage freezes, while those on universal credit are about to lose the £1,000 uplift that …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 May 2020
Lifting the Lockdown: Workplace Safety
"Does the Minister agree that to prevent a second wave of covid-19, employees will have to be as safe as possible when they return to the workplace, that employers have a statutory obligation to achieve this and that they owe their employees a duty of care? How can asking employers …..."Maria Eagle - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 6th May 2020
Asked by:
Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the criteria for allocating the second tranche of the £1.6 billion of emergency funding to local authorities as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Simon Clarke
Following the Government’s announcement on 18 March of an initial wave of £1.6 billion of funding to respond to COVID-19 impacts on local councils, we continued to keep funding pressures under review, using both data collection and ongoing conversations with councils to refine our assessment.
On 28 April, the Secretary of State announced allocations of an additional £1.6 billion to individual local authorities.
Whereas the first funding allocation was primarily allocated to local authorities through the Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula, in recognition that the greatest immediate pressures would fall on local authorities with social care responsibilities, this second wave of funding was allocated on a per capita basis. This reflects our latest understanding of the distribution of additional covid-related pressures, which are likely to be distributed in a way that is different from pre-existing needs. The 65:35 spilt in this per capita allocation between counties and districts in two-tier shire areas provides more funding to district councils than the first wave of funding, whilst providing significant support to social care authorities.
It is important that these two waves of funding are seen together and that false comparisons between the two are avoided. Across both waves, almost 70 per cent of district councils will receive £1 million or more in support, whilst more than 90 per cent of the funding will go to social care authorities.