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HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Q May I put a point of clarification? If there is no independent financial assessment, on what basis do the Government have a view that 500,000 is the most efficient size? Miatta…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)As per my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, I am a director of Localis think-tank, which has contributed evidence. I am also a parliamentary vice-president of…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Q This is a question for both of our witnesses. The title of the Bill is the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. Both of you have very deep roots at community level…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you very much to both the witnesses. It has been a helpful start. Councillor Chapman-Allen, you referred to the role of your constituent authorities in the planning…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Q One of the issues that we aired in the debate when this subject first emerged on the Floor of the House was that at the Government’s chosen footprint of 500,000 minimum…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Q I have a question on accountability for all three panellists. With the proposals for the new mayoral roles and the reorganisation of local government, a key challenge will be…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Q Councillor Hicks, your point about audit is probably a good entry point for my follow-up question. We are aware that a very large proportion, more than half, of education…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Q This question is to both witnesses. There are a number of different elements in the Bill on which you have relevant expertise, but can you give the Committee your view on the…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Point of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I seek your guidance? I led an Adjournment debate last Wednesday. In an intervention on the Minister for Secondary Care, the hon. Member for…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Point of Orderindicated assent.15 Sept 2025HANSARDDraft Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Desmond. I am sure you will be pleased to hear that His Majesty’s Opposition do not propose to divide the Committee on the…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Urgent Care Centres: HillingdonI am grateful to my hon. Friend, another constituency neighbour, for the support that he has lent to this campaign on behalf of his constituents. In a busy capital city, where…10 Sept 2025HANSARD Urgent Care Centres: HillingdonI agree with every word that the Minister has said about how we get good decisions in the interests of local people, but does she share my concern that there has been no public…10 Sept 2025HANSARD Urgent Care Centres: HillingdonWill the Minister give way?10 Sept 2025HANSARD Urgent Care Centres: HillingdonI am grateful that my constituency neighbour is here. Had he the same degree of history in Hillingdon as myself and the right hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington, I am sure he…10 Sept 2025HANSARD Urgent Care Centres: HillingdonI am grateful to the hon. Member. What he described is similar to the concerns outlined by my hon. Friends the Members for Beaconsfield (Joy Morrissey) and for South West…10 Sept 2025HANSARD Urgent Care Centres: HillingdonThis Adjournment debate is on the future of the minor injuries unit at Mount Vernon hospital. I am particularly grateful to the Minister, who, despite representing a Bristol…10 Sept 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillIt has been a wide-ranging debate. I particularly thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Wendy Morton) and my hon. Friends the Members for Bromley and…02 Sept 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI thank my right hon. Friend for highlighting that issue; she has been a champion for the voices of those affected by it. While I understand that Ministers have come to the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDDraft Local Audit (Amendment of Definition of Smaller Authority) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stuart. I am sure we are all delighted to be here—I could sense the excitement in the room when Members read the subject…01 Sept 2025