Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendments, which provide us for the first time with an opp...

My Lords, these are very important issues. I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Bradley and Lor...

My Lords, although my political interest in social services goes back more than 40 years to the d...

My Lords, I listened with enormous interest to my noble friends Lord Bradley and Lord Warner, and...

My Lords, as noble Lords have said, Amendments 36D and 36E make specific provision for the transf...

I have a question on that point, so as to be absolutely clear. The Minister said that any of thos...

Yes, my Lords, I am. They would be done by order, and any orders will be scrutinised through the ...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister’s flow, but I am becoming extremely confused. Twice in her r...

My Lords, Greater Manchester would work with clinical commissioning groups et cetera, but would n...

That was not my question. Perhaps I could explain to the Minister what it is. The clinical commis...

My Lords, perhaps I may clarify what exactly is being devolved. Greater Manchester will have the ...

So the result is the Secretary of State reserving unto himself all the authority to overrule a lo...

My Lords, I was not saying that the Secretary of State would overrule them for overruling’s sake,...

I will read Hansard and come back on Monday, because this issue seems to me an Exocet under some ...

My Lords, surely devolution means giving power to the local level; it does not mean doing that—as...

Yes, my Lords, that is absolutely the case, but we have talked all along in this Committee about ...

It is not a question of whether they have made a mistake or done something wrong, but of local ch...

My Lords, perhaps I am not being clear enough. What I meant by bad decision is a decision that is...

May I suggest to the Minister that we return to this on Monday afternoon because I do not think s...

I know that we will return to it, and I look forward to that.

The noble Lord, Lord Warner, ...

The scrutiny committee of the local authority is not the same as a health and well-being board. I...

I remember the health scrutiny committees in the context of AGMA and the combined authority. I am...

I am grateful to the Minister for the responses she has been able to make, and I am sure she will...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

36G: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I will be brief with this amendment because I anticipate that the Minister’s response w...

My Lords, I certainly support the amendment. Given that the combined authorities will cover quite...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, will obviously not be surprised to hear me say that what...

I thank the Minister for her reply and the noble Baroness, Lady Janke, for her support on this is...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

36H: Schedule 3, page 22, line 15, after “taken,” insert “or un...

My Lords, the amendments in this group relate to the overview and scrutiny committees of the comb...

My Lords, we have tabled Amendments 41 and 42. I will not add to what the noble Lord, Lord Beecha...

My Lords, the issue of effective scrutiny has come up a lot during the course of the Bill. As I s...

I take it from that that the Minister is offering discussions on all these amendments and not rul...

I have given my view on certain amendments and certainly where I see there is scope in others.