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HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 4, clause 1, page 2, line 6, at end insert— “(4A) A statement of levelling-up missions must be accompanied by an action plan which sets out details of how…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)That is exactly right. The RAG rating point is well made—it is what we would expect. There are lots of former councillors in the room, and that is what we would expect at local…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)That is my concern. My biggest anxiety is that the Government have got to this point, after a long time in government and with the highly publicised problems that they face, a…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful for the responses. I agree with everything that the spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale, said about the steps.…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)To wrap up our discussions so far, this is the beginning of the Bill, where the Government are staking out their territory on a major part of their domestic agenda. It is…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 6, in clause 2, page 3, leave out subsections (4) and (5). This amendment would remove the provision allowing the Secretary of State to discontinue a…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I confess that I am a little disappointed. To an extent, we are seeking to save Ministers from themselves. The Minister started by saying that there is no desire to avoid…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I wish briefly to ask the Minister a question that relates to the second part of the evidence from Will Tanner—I mentioned the first bit earlier. He said: “In a second but similar…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 7, in clause 3, page 3, line 28, leave out “120” and insert “30”. This amendment would reduce the period of time by which a report under section 2 must be…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 3 adds a little more detail to the reporting requirement set out in clause 2, which we have just debated. We support the idea of annual reporting to help determine whether…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)That, however, is set against the point that was made in the opening debate about the annex to the White Paper, which was presented to us as a suite of impactful metrics,…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I agree with the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale that a pattern is emerging. The Government seemingly want to reserve a huge amount of leeway when reviewing the success,…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I find it hard to believe, too. I believe in the brilliance of the British civil service. I think this could be done.28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I am really surprised that the Minister wants to do this formally. I understand that with the previous clauses we had already covered much of the meat that would have been…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 11, in clause 5, page 6, line 5, leave out from “which” to end of subsection (11) and insert— “both conditions in subsection (12) have been met. 12. The…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Sixth sitting)As my hon. Friend the Member for York Central has pointed out, we have raised many good questions today about what is really behind the White Paper and how deep the commitment is.…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifth sitting)That is very much the spirit in which I tabled the amendment, which is the first Opposition amendment to the Bill. That might be construed as the Opposition wanting to make life…28 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up Funds: CriteriaThe recent report from the Public Accounts Committee was a huge blow to the way in which the Government are seeking to level up and it exposed once again the debilitating impact…27 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Moving on, there has been some interest, in both oral and written evidence, in clause 140, on compulsory purchase orders. Do you think that the powers go far enough? If not,…23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you, that is really helpful. I am hoping that you might pull back the curtain, in so far as you are willing to, on the operations of a combined authority. Your membership…23 Jun 2022