Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

My Lords, we have a number of amendments in this group. During the debates on this Bill, we have ...

My Lords, all these amendments are about overview and scrutiny and the accountability of combined...

I welcome the Minister’s reply but I would like to go away and reconsider what she is suggesting....

I remind noble Lords about the rules on Report: we should not introduce new matters and nobody sh...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, for his comments; I certainly will go away and think about ...

My Lords, can the Minister elucidate what happens if there is a stand-off because neither side ag...

My Lords, that is an interesting question. I have witnessed many a stand-off in local authorities...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her detailed response to our amendments and a raft of other am...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

38: Schedule 3, page 22, line 37, after “inclu...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

41: Schedule 3, page 22, line 38, at end inser...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

42: Schedule 3, page 23, line 18, leave out fr...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

49: Schedule 3, page 24, line 23, at end inser...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

51: Schedule 3, page 24, leave out lines 24 to...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

56: Schedule 3, page 24, line 42, at end inser...

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

62: After Clause 9, insert the following new C...

My Lords, I know that we have already debated this but I promised to come back to it today, follo...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister—as I am sure are all noble Lords who have been following ...

Will the Minister confirm that if an area currently without a combined authority agrees a devolut...

My Lords, I, too, take this opportunity to raise again an issue covered in Amendments 62, 63, 64 ...

My Lords, can my noble friend clarify that Amendments 71 and 72 are necessary to put all local ar...

My Lords, I want to echo some of the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Tyler. From my own selfi...

I thank the Minister for her detailed exposition of the issues around these two sets of amendment...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for the comments that they have made. My noble friend Lady Eato...

So it is not an opt-out?

No, it is not an opt-out but it is a non-constituent member for the purposes of some of the power...

Will the Minister come back to the substance of the questions I asked? She may well do later in h...

I was trying to say to the noble Baroness that for one purpose a local authority might be a const...

If the Minister could write to me more fully, that would be helpful and then perhaps we can follo...

I have just been passed another note about this. Another example is that York is a non-constituen...

At what point in a mayoralty would a non-constituent authority become a constituent authority? Ho...

I hope I can answer this satisfactorily. Let us take the example of York, within Yorkshire. If Yo...

May I suggest that the Minister responds to the perfectly sensible proposition of my noble friend...

I always try to answer noble Lords’ questions from the Dispatch Box. However, in this instance, I...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

63: After Clause 9, insert the following new C...

Moved by

Lord Warner

66: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“Devo...

Noble Lords may understand why I got up a little impatiently earlier. I move Amendment 66 in my n...

My Lords, I have not taken part in debates on the Bill before today but I have followed carefully...

My Lords, in Committee I sat through an extensive exchange in the debate between the noble Lords,...

My Lords, this has been a very useful short debate. I think that the Minister will know that thos...

Having listened to this debate, and with a certain interest in these matters, it occurs to me tha...

My Lords, I always hesitate to respond to the noble and learned Lord, because he always comes bac...

My Lords, I start by thanking my noble and learned friend for putting everything so succinctly an...

My Lords, I just want to raise a specific point about that which the intervention by the noble an...

Before the Minister responds to that, perhaps I may add to it. I read from her statement on Monda...

My Lords, I am not going back on what I said on Monday. I think that I made clear on Monday that ...

On a point of elucidation, the Minister said that the Secretary of State could impose those condi...

Sorry, would the noble Baroness say that again? I apologise.

I was just saying that the noble Baroness said that the Secretary of State could impose condition...

I do not know of any such situation where he should not, but obviously each deal will be differen...

My Lords, I am sorry to intervene again but surely the whole problem is that the Secretary of Sta...

My Lords, I am trying to be helpful, although I am not sure that I am being very helpful. I indic...

There was a lot of heat but not much light, I suggest, from that debate. I say to the Minister th...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

70: Clause 10, page 10, line 39, at end insert...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

71: After Clause 10, insert the following new ...

Moved by

Lord Tyler

73: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause—

“Gove...

My Lords, I can be relatively brief, because the case for this amendment is very straightforward ...

My Lords, I oppose this amendment, but in doing so I must apologise to the House because I was sl...

My Lords, this is a highly controversial subject. There are many opinions on both sides of the Ho...

My Lords, with all due respect to the noble Lord, who quite rightly commands huge respect across ...

My Lords, it was indeed debated in the case of Scotland, but without any consensus in this House....

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, has done his cause, this House and this Bill a service. I w...

My Lords, I rise expressing extreme sympathy for the enthusiasm which it is possible to develop f...

This sounds like an innings by Mr Geoffrey Boycott. I wonder if the noble Lord could get to the p...

The noble Lord’s intervention is most gracious; if he will forgive me, I am coming towards that e...

My Lords, this amendment was previously debated in Your Lordships’ House in Committee. I and my n...

My Lords, Amendment 73 would have the effect of lowering the voting age for local government elec...

My Lords, the noble Baroness’s last remark has really irritated me because I have worked hard to ...

The noble Lord believes very strongly in elections—he said that again a few moments ago. If this ...

I would. As the noble Lord constantly reminds us, we have a particular responsibility to think ca...

Moved by

Baroness Janke

74: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, I ask the House to correct a great injustice in the city of Bristol. In 2012, there was...

My Lords, we touched on this subject in Committee. I hope very much that your Lordships will reje...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, was part of a Government which did not merely effect a ...

My Lords, this amendment seeks to remove Section 9NA of the Local Government Act 2000, which curr...

My Lords, I thank the Minister—I meant to thank her initially—for her time spent discussing the a...

Moved by

Lord Shipley

75: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause—

“Go...

My Lords, earlier today I spoke about the need to ensure accountability in this new layer of loca...

My Lords, Amendment 75 is not one which we on these Benches can support. I declare an interest as...

My Lords, this amendment is about the voting system for local government elections in England and...

My Lords, if it is not the role of your Lordships’ House to scrutinise legislation, it is hard to...

Moved by

Baroness Hollis of Heigham

75A: After Clause 10, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment, for obvious reasons, and it has slightly awkward wording t...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, has identified a problem that many of us would recogni...

My Lords, I was referred to by my noble friend and although I was not going to speak on this amen...

It is right to begin the Opposition’s response to this issue by reminding the House that the nobl...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I would like to point out that my proposal is in no way a mansio...

It will be interesting to see what the Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Express make of the nobl...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have spoken this evening, particularly my noble friend Lord...

The reply I was disappointed in was actually that of the Minister. She knows, as does everyone he...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

75B: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 75C. In doing so, I return to the issue of devolution fo...

I realise that the drafting of the amendment is not the noble Lord’s, but in proposed new subsect...

Are we dealing with Amendment 79B and proposed new subsection (9)?

Perhaps I can help and speed things up a bit. The subsection to which the noble Lord draws our at...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Tope, for some assistance on that. This was the drafting of...

My Lords, my name is also to the amendment, and I am very pleased to give my support in the terms...

My Lords, since we are told that this is a probing amendment, perhaps I might be probed. I come w...

My Lords, as discussions on these amendments have demonstrated, the ideas for devolution in Londo...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in that brief debate. Insofar as what ...

I thank the noble Lord for that—it may be that some tweaking of legislation is required; we have ...

I am grateful for that. It is good that discussions are proceeding well; it is a good start to th...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

76: Schedule 4, page 25, line 14, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

78: Schedule 4, page 25, line 19, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

84: , line 5, after “governance” insert “and f...