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HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)Under schedule 9, all combined authorities and combined county authorities will hold powers and duties over travel concessions. This includes the duty to provide concessionary…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 98, in schedule 9, page 152, leave out lines 10 to 13 and insert— “14 In section 146 (mandatory concessions: supplementary)— (a) the existing text becomes…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 88, in schedule 9, page 149, leave out lines 25 and 26 and insert— “(a) the council is a constituent council of a combined authority or a combined county…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 87, in schedule 8, page 142, line 20, leave out from beginning to “that” in line 25 and insert “under section 33 or 33A of the Traffic Management Act 2004…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)We all share the desire to see housing built. I will not make the political point that the last Government, of which the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner was part,…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)Local transport is a key responsibility of strategic authorities, which will continue to be the local transport authority for the area. These authorities will be responsible for…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause introduces schedule 8, which relates to key route networks in England. As we will discuss later, in the debate on schedule 8, combined authorities and combined county…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)I will respond to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for North West Cambridgeshire and then turn to new clauses 11, 17 and 18. I assure my hon. Friend that grandfathering…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)I recognise the intent behind the amendment, but we cannot accept it. In any planning process, constituent authorities will be fully consulted and engaged. Ultimately, the…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)Mayors will be given new powers in relation to planning applications of strategic importance, in order to help them to shape the strategic development in their area. The Secretary…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)Devolving adult education functions, such as the duty to secure the provision of education and training for persons aged 19 or over, will provide strategic authorities with an…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)Strategic authorities are uniquely placed to understand the sustained demand for education and training places in their areas. In line with the rest of the Bill, the clause places…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)We are clear that the duty to collaborate will include a wide range of partners. We are going through a process of engaging with and consulting mayors to make sure that in…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)We will specify in secondary legislation the range of local partners, based on feedback from mayors. Again, this is not compulsion; we think it is really important that civic…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)Business organisations, whether small businesses, the Confederation of British Industry or chambers of commerce, will inevitably be around the table when a mayor worth their salt…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)I note that amendments 297 and 298 relate only to the mayors of combined authorities and combined county authorities, not to the Mayor of London. That inconsistency runs contrary…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)We are clear that if a mayor is serious about driving economic outcomes in a way that works for their community, they must collaborate with a set of partners. That 100% includes…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)I do not want to drag out this debate any further, but I think the hon. Gentleman is over-egging this. This is a duty to collaborate; it is not about decision making. Any mayor…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)I refer the hon. Gentleman to the national planning policy framework, which tries to encourage and incentivise the use of previously developed land, and to make sure that within…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)There are two issues with the amendment. First, we believe that it could create an inconsistency between the powers of mayoral combined authorities and their equivalents elsewhere…16 Oct 2025