Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority (Election of Mayor) Order 2016

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing this order. As she rightly pointed out, this is on...

I would like to inform the noble Lord, and possibly the Minister, about the situation with regard...

I thank the noble Lord for that clarification. I hope that we will have a chance to consider the ...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, I think that devolution is a positive thing. I like ...

My Lords, I was interested that at the beginning we were talking about Tees Valley, but for the L...

Oh no!

Names are important to localities. Names are places.

I want to pick up on the point made by...

My Lords, it might surprise some people in the Room that I agree with what the noble Lord, Lord A...

My Lords, we are in the slightly unusual position of having no fewer than seven former council le...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have made a variety of points on the order. Perhaps I may a...

More so.

Yes. We can argue about more so, but I do not think it is one or the other. We must have both. Pr...

Who will appoint the independent chair from the minor party or parties?

It says that the chair could be an independent person or a member of a constituent council who is...

But who will appoint that person?

I am making the assumption that they will be appointed in the usual way that public appointments ...

Could the Minister write to me about that, and the funding issue?

I certainly will. We discussed it at length.

It is a very important issue, because there is a danger that the majority party will, in reality,...

We did discuss this and agreed that that should be the case. It would make a mockery of the proce...