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HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI thank my hon. Friend for doing such a fantastic job for Wolverhampton. Even though I may not always agree with everything that Wolverhampton Council has done, it has had some…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI know that the Minister for Local Government, the Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, my hon. Friend the Member for North East Derbyshire (Lee…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI love Blackpool and I love trees, but £174,000 for six trees is £29,000 a tree. Some trees they must have in Blackpool. More seriously, the local authority faces challenges, but…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the very constructive approach he has always taken to dealing with local government and education issues. Yes, the Kerslake report…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilFirst, I thank the hon. Lady for her kind words about Max Caller. He is a first-class professional, and I know he will do an excellent job with the other commissioners. Secondly,…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI am always grateful to the Chairman of the Select Committee. I have already pointed out that in my statement I deliberately did not choose to make political points, but given…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilAbsolutely; we do ensure that every council is appropriately funded. I know— [ Interruption. ] I know that the hon. Lady served with distinction on Birmingham City Council, so I…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his very thoughtful question. Although we might disagree politically and have different reflections on what may have been said in the…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilThere are several important points there. I have never taken a tram in Digbeth, but I do know that, thanks to Andy Street, there is significant additional investment in Digbeth…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilWith your permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement about Birmingham City Council. Birmingham is a great city with a wonderful, diverse, creative and…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Of course, there are real issues for Sandwell as a local authority, which is why we had to intervene there to deal with years of…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilMy hon. Friend makes a series of very helpful points, and she is right. Obviously, it is not my role or responsibility at this time to interfere in the calendar of elections that…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilThe overall health of local government matters hugely, and the financial health of local government matters hugely. That is why we are bringing forward the new Office for Local…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI am glad that Max Caller has agreed to be lead commissioner, but in the next few days I want to hear directly from Birmingham’s MPs and other representatives about who they…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI do not know how it is possible to sustain an argument that we are taking funding from deprived areas when one looks at the levelling-up partnerships we have in Hull, Sandwell,…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilMy hon. Friend has had a distinguished career in business and public service in the west midlands. It is right to say, as I sought to do at the beginning of my statement, that…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Birmingham City CouncilI am grateful to my hon. Friend. We must deepen this inquiry. It is fair to say that it was a Conservative and Liberal Democrat administration that ran Birmingham until 2012, but…19 Sept 2023HANSARDPlanning UpdateI am today setting out updated policy on planning for onshore wind development in England. In December last year the Government consulted on a number of proposed changes to the…05 Sept 2023HANSARDLong-term Plan for Housing and Nutrient NeutralityOver the summer I have taken further decisive action to boost housing supply: first, through setting out this Government’s long-term plan for housing; and secondly, by unblocking…04 Sept 2023HANSARDDepartmental UpdateThis statement updates the House on progress that has been made across the Department’s remit. Update on the Intervention in the London Borough of Croydon On 16 March 2023, the…20 Jul 2023