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HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)Clause 30 enables the Mayor of a combined county authority to have the functions of the police and crime commissioner conferred on them if that Mayor requests it. The Mayors of…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)I am not sure that I understand the hon. Member’s detailed question. I will try to understand it. Let me speak to what the clause does, and if that does not make things clear he…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)Opposition Members have argued that the process in which new powers are given to CCAs should be transparent and public, and it will be. The processes that lead to the conferring…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)Making some of the functions exercisable by the Mayor is at the heart of what we have been doing with devolution. If we are going to have the debate that we had earlier, I should…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)We believe the amendment is unnecessary. The Secretary of State may confer functions on the Mayor of a combined county authority only if they consider that to do so meets the…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)Clause 26 requires the Mayor of a combined county authority to appoint a deputy Mayor from the constituent members, so the Mayor of a CCA could not make—to answer the question…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)I am sympathetic to many of the points made by Opposition Members. The Bill tightens the tax treatment of empty second homes to free up those homes for use by the community. The…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)We discussed in previous sittings the role of the non-constituent and associate members of the authority, which is the way of getting in expertise from outside. Perhaps a…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)Clause 26 requires the Mayor of a combined county authority to appoint a deputy Mayor from among the constituent members of the CCA. The deputy Mayor would act in the stead of the…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)The single-word answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question is: workload. Clause 30 enables the Mayor of a combined county authority to have the functions of a police and crime…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)The amendment has no effect on its own. As set out in clause 26, the role of deputy Mayor of a CCA is created by that provision. It is therefore already statutory. The clause…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)I want to clarify that spatial development strategies are available to MCAs, and several are already doing them.05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)In the communities that resisted it, the leaders of local authorities had lots of questions about it, because they were bringing into existence a new directly elected body across…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)The Opposition have spent several days complaining that our devolution model is too messy. This morning they are complaining that it too neat and tidy.05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)To be clear, is the Opposition’s preferred model an unelected committee or assembly-type model? What do they prefer to the mayoral model?05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)This is a really interesting debate, and it is good to be able to have it in public. Let me be blunt: nothing is hidden here. We are clear that the Government’s view is that we…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)I am very happy to look at that. I think it is to do with the language of the legislation sounding a particular way, but I am very happy to take that point on board and think…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)I concur with the hon. Member for Nottingham North that it is a pleasure to have an all-Yorkshire Front Bench on this third day of the test—sorry, I mean on line-by-line scrutiny.…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman says, “brilliant”, but the people who made a long-term commitment to those communities and who face a £9,000 tax bill would be unlikely to have the same…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)My fellow Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey, is doing roundtables to explore the different possibilities on that point. I am sympathetic to what the hon.…05 Jul 2022