Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 23 November 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Andrew George. The answering member was Phil Woolas.

Local and Regional Government

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on local and regional government.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 439 c450-73WH
Session: 2005-06
Department: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions: Andrew George | 439 c454WH (Link to this contribution) : I am grateful to my hon. Friend. In many ways, I agree with him. I, as a Cornishman, do not assume...; Daniel Kawczynski | 439 c454WH (Link to this contribution) May I point out to the hon. Gentleman and the Minister that a lot of resentment is felt in Shropshir...; Andrew George | 439 c454WH (Link to this contribution) : I am not sure that it is regional government by stealth. It is the bolstering of an unaccountable ...; Andrew George | 439 c452-3WH (Link to this contribution) : Sorry, obviously more people have left the island since I last heard about it. One could draw a nu...; Alistair Burt | 439 c453WH (Link to this contribution) May I help the hon. Gentleman with this part of his argument? The reason why the Government do not r...; Andrew George | 439 c453WH (Link to this contribution) : I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It is helpful, but it is also worth pointing out ...; Lord Taylor of Goss Moor | 439 c453-4WH (Link to this contribution) With the Government's plans for regional assemblies dead in the water, we are left, as my hon. Frien...; Chris Huhne | 439 c452WH (Link to this contribution) I very much appreciate my hon. Friend's points about the proposals for amalgamating and centralising...; Andrew George | 439 c452WH (Link to this contribution) : I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. As Malta has a population roughly the same ...; Chris Huhne | 439 c452WH (Link to this contribution) : Malta's population is smaller than that.; Andrew George | 439 c456-7WH (Link to this contribution) : Let me correct my hon. Friend: he cannot say regional level and must get used to the term Governme...; Speaker | 439 c457WH (Link to this contribution) (in the Chair): Before calling the next speaker, I remind Members that I intend to begin the winding...; Andrew George | 439 c455-6WH (Link to this contribution) : I am sure that the Minister will take on board that plea on behalf of the area that the hon. Gentl...; Chris Huhne | 439 c456WH (Link to this contribution) : Let me reinforce my hon. Friend's point. Does he agree that the English regions of which the Gover...; Andrew George | 439 c455WH (Link to this contribution) : I am aware of the time, so I hope that those who intervene on me do not mind that as a result of t...; Philip Hollobone | 439 c455WH (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, is he aware that Northamptonshire now has a grotesque structure ...; Andrew George | 439 c454-5WH (Link to this contribution) : I will give way in a moment, as I am now on my hind legs. Those countries realise that if small pr...; Tony Baldry | 439 c455WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman is being far too kind to the Government. He assumes that they have beneficial m...; David Leslie Taylor | 439 c451WH (Link to this contribution) : This will be my last intervention. We can agree that reform does not necessarily involve regionali...; Andrew George | 439 c451-2WH (Link to this contribution) : I do not want to be diverted on to the issue of the rights and wrongs of local income tax, althoug...; David Leslie Taylor | 439 c451WH (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Gentleman give way?; Andrew George | 439 c451WH (Link to this contribution) : I will on one further occasion, but then I want to make progress.; Andrew George | 439 c450WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have secured this debate on the future of local and regional government. I am plea...; David Leslie Taylor | 439 c451WH (Link to this contribution) : Regionalism.; Andrew George | 439 c451WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman says regionalism, but there is a debate to be had about what is interpreted as ...; David Leslie Taylor | 439 c450WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the substantial defeat of a year or more ago was not necessarily ...; Andrew George | 439 c450-1WH (Link to this contribution) : I am not sure that I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman's analysis, although I do not interpre...; David Howarth | 439 c465WH (Link to this contribution) I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for St. Ives (Andrew George) on securing this de...; James Gray | 439 c465WH (Link to this contribution) From the Minister's body language—I saw him smiling at his civil servants—it appears that the Govern...; Alistair Burt | 439 c472WH (Link to this contribution) : I am extremely grateful to the Minister for giving way in such a tight debate, but can I press him...; Phil Woolas | 439 c471-2WH (Link to this contribution) : If my memory serves me correctly—I shall correct myself if it does not—my right hon. Friend the Me...; David TC Davies | 439 c472WH (Link to this contribution) : I actually said that devolution did not work—I said nothing about the shire counties. In fact, I w...; Phil Woolas | 439 c472WH (Link to this contribution) : I can respond and I am glad to have the opportunity to do so, because I think that the hon. Gentle...; Alistair Burt | 439 c467-70WH (Link to this contribution) Welcome, Mr. Illsley, to the third and probably spikiest of an occasional series of seminars on the ...; David Howarth | 439 c465-7WH (Link to this contribution) : I would be happy if that idea had occurred to the Department and the Minister. For us, the basic ...; Andrew George | 439 c471WH (Link to this contribution) : Perhaps I blinked when that happened, but just so that I did not miss it, will the Minister say ho...; Phil Woolas | 439 c470-1WH (Link to this contribution) : I thank hon. Members for a very wide-ranging debate. The title of regional and local government al...; David TC Davies | 439 c458WH (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I should declare an interest from the start. I have been a Member of the Welsh Assembly for ...; Peter Soulsby | 439 c464-5WH (Link to this contribution) : No, time is about to expire, so if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I shall not give way. We m...; David TC Davies | 439 c464WH (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Gentleman give way?; Peter Soulsby | 439 c463-4WH (Link to this contribution) I speak as somebody who has been an elected member of a local authority for some 30 years, and who l...; Tony Baldry | 439 c463WH (Link to this contribution) : That is the reported figure. Perhaps the Minister will give the new burdens figure when he winds u...; Phil Woolas | 439 c463WH (Link to this contribution) : Even the Local Government Association does not say that the figure to which the hon. Gentleman ref...; Tony Baldry | 439 c462-3WH (Link to this contribution) It was always ridiculous making the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) th...; John Pugh | 439 c460-2WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St. Ives (Andrew George) on securing an important and t...; David TC Davies | 439 c458-9WH (Link to this contribution) : Indeed. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out some of the many irregularities caused by...; Daniel Kawczynski | 439 c458WH (Link to this contribution) : May I tell my hon. Friend and the Minister something? As a result of the different policies that t...; Phil Woolas | 439 c472-3WH (Link to this contribution) : Again, I thank the hon. Gentleman. As I have told many conferences of local authority leaders in r...
Subjects: Devolution Local government Local government services Regional planning and development Regional government
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Local and Regional Government

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