Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

My Lords, I have worked with the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and I know of his long experience and ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, is perhaps the best-qualified special adviser ever to h...

My Lords, I have developed huge respect for the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, over the years follow...

My Lords, I, too, would like to support the remarks of my noble friend Lord Beecham and to challe...

I am most grateful. I think that the noble Baroness is perhaps not old enough to know this but th...

I do not disagree that Redcliffe-Maud was a sizeable problem. I did quite a lot of work on this a...

My Lords, you will be pleased to know that I am not going to get into this discussion about what ...

My Lords, I have listened to the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine. Like the noble Baroness, Lady Warsi,...

My Lords, I agree with every word just said by the noble Lord, Lord Scriven. I return to the rema...

Peter Walker.

It was Peter Walker in the Conservative Government, but that is history. If I have understood the...

My Lords, this is my first intervention on the Bill. I apologise for that. Looking around the Cha...

My Lords, I am grateful for the contribution that the noble Lord, Lord Brooke, has just made, but...

My Lords, I listened with great interest to the speech from my noble friend Lord Heseltine earlie...

My Lords, I agree with much of what the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, said in his analysis of the p...

We have heard reference to the electoral system, which is not an uncommon reference from the Libe...

Fair voting in my description is not the list system, which I regard as just a fancy way of chang...

My Lords, I am very encouraged by this debate. One always tends to worry as the years go by that ...

My Lords, I rise somewhat reluctantly to participate in this debate. I declare my interest as lea...

My Lords, it falls to me to give the Opposition’s official position on this amendment. I hope tha...

My Lords, first, I apologise for having to leave during Second Reading; I had to shuffle out with...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have made various points on these amendments. Amendment 14 ...

The Minister says that, but let us take my own area of South Yorkshire as a practical example. Th...

My Lords, technically the noble Lord is right—it is down to four people—but they are elected by t...

My Lords, I am still not clear on this. If, for example, out in shire England, three local author...

My Lords, if that situation arose, those three local authorities would enter into a discussion wi...

I will ask the Minister about this matter again, on the detail of the amendment. The Bill states:...

My Lords, it would be entirely between the Secretary of State and those local authorities. I am s...

Can I come back on the question posed by my noble friend Lady Hollis? It seems to me that the opp...

My Lords, there are powers available under other local government Acts. For example, the Localism...

My Lords, forgive me, this is Committee stage and I would not behave like this on Report but I am...

My Lords, this Bill provides for combined authorities. Perhaps I originally misunderstood what th...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for reminding us that the Bill applies only to combined a...

My Lords, because these are bespoke deals, it will be very much a conversation between the local ...

My Lords, if a combined authority asked for powers similar to those of the Manchester deal, would...

My Lords, the Government would not seek to impose a metro mayor, as I have repeated several times...

I am sorry to come back on this but it is an important issue that we need to get clear. Let me go...

My Lords, the Government certainly would want it, but with the agreement of those local authoriti...

Surely that is a misuse of language. My noble friend Lord Smith of Leigh made it clear that, in h...

My Lords, if I could repeat the point, the combined authority agreed with the Secretary of State ...

I cannot just let that slip away. There is a clear difference in interpretation of what is intend...

My Lords, I will try to clarify again. It is certainly true that, for the full suite of powers to...

“Insist” was the word that was referred to by my noble friend on the Front Bench.

My Lords, I cannot be more clear that that was the system that Greater Manchester and the Secreta...

I know that the Minister is doing her best and this is absolutely no criticism of her, but we are...

My Lords, it may well be a condition that is agreed to rather than imposed. I hope that that make...

I am sorry, but will the Minister tell me what the difference is between imposing something in re...

My Lords, imposition is different from agreement—I think we can all agree. No combined authority ...

If it does not agree, it will not be a combined authority with those powers. Therefore, it is an ...

My Lords, it is not an imposition. It has to be agreed. The Secretary of State does not want to i...

You go into a shop and there are two items for sale. One of them has a price tag—the price in thi...

My Lords, no one is going to force you to buy that bottle—it depends on what the bottle contains....

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have taken part in this debate. In one sense, we have ha...

The noble Lord said that what he proposed would not have many members, but it would work out at s...

Indeed, it is 50. Of course, there are a number of issues around the selection of those numbers. ...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 8, at end insert—

“( ...

My Lords, a moment ago I touched on Amendment 4. The other amendments in this group are Amendment...

My Lords, I support Amendments 6 and 7. I am a former leader of Bristol City Council and have rai...

My Lords, we are trying to create world-class prestigious authorities to negotiate on behalf of o...

Will the noble Lord help us out? The fact that a mayor has to be elected means that the individua...

The mayor would be speaking in his position as an elected official and in normal circumstances he...

I would like to respond to that. Basically, at the moment there is huge confusion about mayors. T...

My Lords, Amendments 4 to 7 address the role of a mayor in the combined authority and I shall tak...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response to the debate and other noble Lords who have part...