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Local Government Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 30 June 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Hanham. The answering member was Lord McKenzie of Luton.
Local Government Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

719 c1798-834 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Local Government Bill (HL). Explanatory notes also published (HL Bill 2-EN).
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Bills
House of Lords
Norwich and Norfolk (Structural Changes) Order 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Exeter and Devon (Structural Changes) Order 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Richard | 719 c1801 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the noble Baroness can help me, because I am a little confused by one or two remark...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1798-801 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is our second attempt at a Second Reading debate on this short, single-issue Local Go...

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Lord McKenzie of Luton | 719 c1801-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, for explaining this short Bill. Although I believ...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1801 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the court made a decision only on the first clause—that is, to stop the reorganisation. It...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1798 (Link to this contribution) Moved By That the Bill be read a second time.
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 719 c1805-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. He has dealt at great length and very helpfully with...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 719 c1803-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can cite a number of flourishing unitary authorities, particularly my own, Luton, and th...
Lord Teverson | 719 c1803 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for intervening but the noble Lord’s remarks are very provocative given that all the way...
Lord Rennard | 719 c1806-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in supporting the Bill, many of us feel that it should not have been necessary to introduc...
Lord Burnett | 719 c1806 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, that Luton is not Devon—nor is it Exeter. I remind...
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 719 c1808-11 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Rennard, but, looking at the speakers list, I thought ...
Lord Rennard | 719 c1808 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have not argued the case for the Boundary Committee’s proposals and am not doing so toda...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 719 c1808 (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Lord tell us of anyone in the county of Norfolk—in the district council, county counci...
Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 719 c1816-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I retrieved the notes that I had written for the original Second Reading debate in th...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 719 c1811-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as former leader of Norwich City Council, and also a former Norfolk ...
Lord Grocott | 719 c1818-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, whatever I say about the Bill, it is only fair to say at the outset that I welcome the nob...
Viscount Ullswater | 719 c1818 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all I would say is that the Examiners have examined it. Their report has been published an...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 719 c1822 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting the noble Lord, but he referred to the question that I posed in my pres...
Lord Tope | 719 c1821-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin, as I always do, and as I did when we debated the orders on 22 March, by declaring...
Lord Tope | 719 c1822-3 (Link to this contribution) It is probably inappropriate for me to comment on the Minister’s answer before she has given it. I m...
Earl Cathcart | 719 c1830 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord seems to be arguing so passionately for their cause that I wonder whether h...
Lord Teverson | 719 c1829 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister—I am sorry, not the Minister; I am out of date. I thank the noble Lord for givi...
Lord Rosser | 719 c1829-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I note that that is the noble Lord’s view, but I doubt that it is universally held. I acce...
Earl Cathcart | 719 c1824-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the first time that I have spoken on this issue. I must admit that it is difficult...
Lord Rosser | 719 c1826-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had an interesting and at times passionate debate. Before I go further, I will aga...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 719 c1823 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, he is a solicitor in Norwich but is the MP for North Norfolk and has no formal connection ...
Lord Tope | 719 c1823-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to detain your Lordships’ House. This has distracted us but I think the main arguments...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 719 c1823 (Link to this contribution) I have made my point. Only 40 per cent of the Conservative MP’s constituency is in Norwich. The Norw...
Lord Tope | 719 c1823 (Link to this contribution) As the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, has intervened, I will comment on her quoting, at some length, N...
Lord Tope | 719 c1823 (Link to this contribution) I thought this would be coming, but our position as a national party was absolutely clear.
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1833 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that was the bit I had forgotten. Clause 2 moves the elections from 2010 to 2011. If it is...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 719 c1833 (Link to this contribution) I know that we are getting into detail that is probably Committee stuff, but if Clause 2 effectively...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 719 c1833-4 (Link to this contribution) It was not a trap. It took place in the full presence of the House at prime time. A trap is somethin...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1833 (Link to this contribution) The noble and learned Lord has raised a point that I knew I ought to have cleared up before. There i...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1832-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for his intervention. He is correct. A large number of questions were raised...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 719 c1833 (Link to this contribution) Do I understand that the Minister accepts that if the orders are quashed, Clause 1(3), which revokes...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1832 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure the noble Lord will forgive me for saying that I did not say that the Merits Com...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1832 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Baroness had continued to sit for a bit longer, she would have heard me get t...
Lord Rosser | 719 c1832 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness raised the issue of the Merits Committee report. I stand by what I said in respon...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 719 c1831-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before she went on to the issue of the Merits Committee, the noble Baroness was clear that...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1830-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all those who have taken part in this debate for their contributions. I have been ...
Lord Rosser | 719 c1830 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my recollection is that the Merits Committee said that it did not come to a definitive vie...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 719 c1806 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed, my Lords. I thought I had recognised at the start of my presentation that that had chan...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 719 c1818 (Link to this contribution) On a point of information, it was not contested. We withdrew from that examination and therefore the...
Viscount Ullswater | 719 c1817-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest in this matter as an elected member of the Borough Council of King’s...
Baroness Hanham | 719 c1834 (Link to this contribution) Trap or not, we ended up with an examination to which no further evidence was given. The two memoria...
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 719 c1832 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the Merits Committee raised an enormous number of questions about whether th...

Subjects

Cost effectiveness
Devon
Finance
Exeter
Local government
Norfolk
Norwich
Reorganisation
Unitary councils
Suffolk
Hybrid bills
Devon County Council
Exeter City Council
Norfolk County Council
Norwich City Council

Legislation

Local Government Bill (HL) 2010-12

Link

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