Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

I support the amendment. A question has come from a number of Benches and the Minister about the ...

My Lords, I know that opposition to motherhood and apple pie is always disliked in this House, bu...

My Lords, the amendments of my noble friend Lord Berkeley reasonably probe the Government and foc...

My Lords, these amendments seek to introduce into the Bill new clauses that would place on combin...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for her comprehensive explanation, which might be summed...

Moved by

Lord Warner

44DD: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“NH...

My Lords, we return to the issue that we discussed last Wednesday, namely the ability of combined...

My Lords, I warmly welcome my noble friend’s amendment. I read with interest the debate in Commit...

My Lords, when I read the announcement about the decision for Greater Manchester and the fact tha...

My Lords, very briefly, I support this probing amendment which has been so eloquently moved and s...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have made remarks this evening. A number of questions have ...

My Lords, if I may intervene on that, of course I understand that an affirmative order allows Par...

My Lords, we have talked about the Secretary of State’s ability to intervene, which in itself is ...

I am being totally confused by the Minister. If she is saying that the detail of a deal is enshri...

My Lords, it is what I am saying but I am also saying that the detail of the deal, which noble Lo...

My Lords, this really goes to the heart of this matter. The Secretary of State under my amendment...

Perhaps I have not articulated this—in fact, I wonder if the noble Lord and I are talking at cros...

Who do I sue then? Who is accountable in this great mushy edifice that has been created? Who is t...

My Lords, there is a partnership board. Who you would actually sue on that board I do not know. I...

In a previous life I have been both a senior NHS manager and a leader of a council. This is as cl...

My Lords, I can confirm that the accountable body is the partnership board.

We are going nowhere, my Lords. Let us have another go. Let us follow up the issue of the closure...

My Lords, as I understand it, it is the partnership board. I cannot add any more to this. As I un...

Is the partnership board a statutory body?

Sorry, could the noble Lord repeat that?

Is the partnership board a statutory body or a corporate board in law, or is it just a partnershi...

I would imagine it is a statutory body. May I confirm that, because I am not entirely certain? I ...

I would like to help, if I might, because the noble Baroness is obviously in difficulty. This que...

I thank the noble Lord very much indeed for that intervention.

Finally, the noble Lord, Lor...

My temptation is to say, “You must be joking”. This has been a very interesting and illustrative ...