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HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourth sitting)What fun.23 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Thank you. Eamonn, would you add anything to that? Eamonn Boylan: I would certainly echo Laura’s final comment about the international potency of the mayoral model, which is…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q The Bill strengthens and streamlines compulsory purchase order powers and creates the opportunity for local authorities to run high street rental auctions as part of a wider…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Thank you.21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you. Tim? Cllr Oliver: Thank you very much. The County Councils Network and my members are hugely supportive of the intentions set out in the Bill. We see this very much…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Sir Mark. James and Tim, the Bill contains measures both to simplify and accelerate the process of creating new combined authorities, be they mayoral or non-mayoral,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q That is helpful. Can I press you a little further on that? Obviously, the Government completely agree that no sovereign body should lose power without consent, and that…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Sam, and thank you for making the time this afternoon. One of the goals of the Bill is to amend the law in order to make it easier for us to extend the devolution of…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q This question is mainly for Sacha and Rich. It is about high street rental auctions, which the Bill introduces. As well as being an opportunity to improve our high streets and…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Thank you, Laura. Unless Eamonn wants to add anything on that point, I am probably finished.21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q I have one last question to Laura. The Bill, among other things, makes it simpler for Mayors to take on the powers of the police and crime commissioner, effectively streamlining…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you both. The Bill makes it easier and quicker to establish new combined authorities, either with or without a Mayor, in new parts of the country. How important has the…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Second sitting)Q This question is for Eamonn and Laura. One of the missions the Bill will put on a statutory footing will increase public domestic research and development spending outside the…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (First sitting)Q That is very helpful. In your earlier answer you drew attention to the lack of UK-wide indices of multiple deprivation. We know that in the first round of the levelling-up fund,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. One of the other missions for which the Bill is creating statutory requirements is to increase domestic public R&D investment outside greater south-east England by a…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (First sitting)Q Professor Spowage, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us this morning. The Bill creates statutory requirements around the levelling ambitions that we were just…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (First sitting)Q I have one last quick question. West Yorkshire has what some people describe as a strong Mayor model, whereby the Mayor needs to be on the side of the majority for various…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (First sitting)Q The Bill makes it simpler for Mayors to take on police commissioner powers. What are the advantages for Mayors of having police commissioner powers? Does it allow integration…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. When I was a child in Huddersfield, we originally had a metropolitan county council; we then went through a long period of having no elected city region-wide…21 Jun 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (First sitting)Q Tracy, thank you for taking the time to be with us this morning—it is much appreciated. Clauses 60 and 61 will simplify and streamline the processes for setting up new combined…21 Jun 2022