Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

My Lords, we have tabled Amendment 13, which would short-circuit the need for an independent remu...

My Lords, I am on the side of the councillors. Giving rough figures, I can say that the chief exe...

We have heard wise words from my noble friend Lord Shipley and the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine. I ...

My Lords, this has been an interesting short debate. Our starting point is to favour the amendmen...

My Lords, I appreciate the intentions behind these amendments, and noble Lords have made very val...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for contributing to this very brief debate; it is about time we hur...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

11: Clause 1, page 2, line 25, leave out “must” and insert “may...

My Lords, before I address these amendments, I should address the remarks made by my noble friend...

My Lords, in the situation where a local authority does not consent to a combined authority adopt...

To respond to the first point, obviously the Minister—or those who helped to prepare her speech i...

Moved by

Lord Tyler

14: Clause 1, page 2, line 38, at end insert—

“107BB Requir...

My Lords, I mentioned that I currently serve on the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Commit...

My Lords, as the noble Lord has mentioned my name and has therefore implied that I support his am...

My Lords, I should like to speak briefly to this group of amendments, to two more of which, Amend...

My Lords, it is often said, as the noble Lord opposite did, that it is not good to have another l...

My Lords, the amendments seems to cover two different areas: first, whether there is a need for o...

My Lords, the problem with these amendments is that they want to impose a London-based solution o...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friends Lord Woolmer and Lord Smith for basically setting out...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for some very measured and sensible comments on these amendments. F...

My Lords, I thank the Minister. I and my colleagues warmly welcome the assurance she has been giv...

I want to clarify that the point I made was that we in Greater Manchester—not me and the noble Lo...

Perhaps I could intervene on that to say: but of course not. The people who tend to be involved d...

I am very grateful to my noble friend. He makes his point very well.

I say to the Minister ...

I do not believe that the noble Lord is right on that issue. This is one of the differences betwe...

But that is exactly the problem.

My Lords—

I think I am still responding; I hope that is right. I think the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, is in...

My Lords, just before we conclude this aspect of the Bill, I confirm that the noble Lord, Lord Mc...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

14A: Schedule 1, page 13, leave out lines 13 to 19 and insert—<...

My Lords, Amendment 14A is a manuscript amendment arising from the recently published report from...

My Lords, I am pleased to support the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, on all these amendments. As he sa...

As the Minister implied, jumping on the bandwagon with the Liberal Democrats is not generally a f...

My Lords, as the Bill currently stands, the ability of the Secretary of State to set the timings ...

At this stage, I am prepared to accept that, but I hope that the Minister might have a rather qui...