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HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is a pleasure to move the new clause in the name of the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn), who is a…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is my pleasure to make the case for new clause 16, which would introduce a climate and nature duty into the Bill. I have…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)May I add that this is a really interesting debate and one that we should continue to have under my new clause? To answer the hon. Gentleman’s question, Conservative Members have…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I do not wish to move the new clause, but my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol Central (Carla Denyer) may bring it back on Report. New Clause 56 Authority involvement in local…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I implore the Minister to go away and look at this again. The courts have confirmed that transport schemes, such as the cycleway running along the Embankment, do not count as…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I take those points constructively, as they were intended. I hope that this issue can be looked at during future stages in a cross-party manner, so that we can put something…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the Minister for her response. I am not entirely convinced that these measures are as baked in as she said. All these issues are vulnerable to election cycles. Something…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I have been working on the new clause with the Centre for Local Economic Strategies. The new clause would require strategic…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I hear the Minister’s words, which are very similar to previous words, but I do not believe she has really dealt with the key things this new clause does that others do not:…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 34 is about something that I do not think Ministers have yet considered, but it would be of real benefit to the…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)A standing commission that offers regular advice to all the groups that are trying to innovate would be a boon to them, not a burden as the hon. Member for Hamble Valley said. I…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)To what everyone else has said, I want to add that, while I have spent a lot of time in the Committee complaining that scrutiny is not done well, we have done a really good job of…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I will, as briefly as I can, because this is an interesting concept, outline the proposals in new clause 30 for the…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksThe Secretary of State rightly talks about prisons reeling from historic funding and staffing cuts, yet he admits that other current Ministers have added to this problem by…27 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)Amendments 312 to 314 aim to achieve the same thing: formally guarantee the introduction of the supplementary vote system, which is already being legislated for, at next year’s…23 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)I am content with the Minister’s response, so I beg to ask to leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.23 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)I appreciate the detail of the answer that the Minister is giving me, but I would like some further reassurance that poorly performing councils will face some sort of redress…23 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)I want to clarify that I am talking about the supplementary vote for mayoral elections in clause 59. To return to some examples of mayoral elections under first past the post with…23 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)I will speak briefly on new clause 51. It is really encouraging that there is a cross-party effort to reinvigorate community ownership funding, which has lapsed. Although I am…23 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)I would not claim that a turnout of nearly 43% is a triumph, but the hon. Member has to admit that it is a good turnout compared with that of most local government elections.23 Oct 2025