Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

We are getting major amendments, which are very welcome, at Report rather than in the Bill. It is...

I was saying that it applies to any local authority.

Amendment 32 would require the Secreta...

My Lords, before I speak to government Amendments 71 and 72, I just want to congratulate the Mini...

My Lords, I refer to my Amendments 31 and 32, and thank the Minister very much for her response. ...

May I just clarify a comment that I made to the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis? I talked about local...

My Lords, I should like to speak to Amendment 67, which is not an opposition amendment but an ame...

My Lords, as explained, Amendments 28 to 30 were basically driven by the health agenda. The facil...

I apologise to my noble friend, but as my amendment was on the very different issue of council ta...

I am grateful to my noble friend for that clarification. I will just say to the Government that w...

My Lords, I do not wish to repeat anything that has been said on Amendments 31 and 32, because I ...

My Lords, I support my noble friend and the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and agree with their commen...

My Lords, the more I have listened to the debate on Amendment 34, the more worried I have become ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Heseltine for setting the context for some of my answers t...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

29: Clause 6, page 7, line 41, leave out “An o...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

33: Clause 6, page 8, line 26, at end insert—<...

I will speak also to Amendment 70. During Committee, noble Lords expressed concern that Parliamen...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her explanation but want to say a couple of things. F...

My Lords, Amendment 33 is to be welcomed as it requires a report, as we have heard, to be laid be...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Woolmer, for the two points that he raised and for his increasing co...