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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the additional administrative capacity required by local government to take on any new tax powers.

Asked by
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 September 2026
Reference
HL3201
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with the devolved Governments on adopting a consistent UK-wide approach to the diagnosis and treatment of PANS and PANDAS.

Asked by
Shockat Adam (Independent (affiliation))
Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 September 2026
Reference
26762
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of devolution in England on equitable grant funding for English farmers in line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Asked by
Allison Gardner (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 September 2026
Reference
28248
House
House of Commons

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to devolving the power of setting business rates to Northern Ireland as part of the government's devolution agenda.

Asked by
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 September 2026
Reference
HL3115
House
House of Lords

To ask His Majesty's Government what powers they are considering devolving to local authorities.

Asked by
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 September 2026
Reference
HL3114
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Policy Paper dated 31 July 2026, Rewiring the State- Cabinet Statement, whether recent discussions about the role for Members of Parliament in local accountability could include the shaping of transport, housing, economic development, skills...

Asked by
Luke Evans (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 September 2026
Reference
28036
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Policy Paper dated 31 July 2026, Rewiring the State- Cabinet Statement, what recent discussions has she had about the role for Members of Parliament in local accountability, working with mayors and councillors.

Asked by
Luke Evans (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 September 2026
Reference
28035
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce measures to grant Cornwall Council devolved powers to promote and protect the Cornish language.

Asked by
Perran Moon (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 September 2026
Reference
24502
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, further to the written statement of 1 September 2026, HCWS297, on bus fares, whether (a) devolved administrations and (b) London will receive any consequential funding as a consequence of the £400 million of government funding from the DESNZ budget.

Asked by
Richard Holden (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Tabled
Date
15 September 2026
Reference
30018
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee oral evidence; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Economic Affairs Committee
Date
15 September 2026
House
House of Lords

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the fiscal devolution roadmap, to be published alongside the Autumn Budget, will include a weighting for rural sparsity and remoteness within the arrangements for the retention of business rates and income tax by strategic authorities; and whether those arrangements will provide for a minimum...

Asked by
Lord Berkeley (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Tabled
Date
14 September 2026
Reference
HL3459
House
House of Lords

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide for the appointment of commissioners in rural areas within strategic authorities that meet a defined rural population threshold such as 20 per cent; and what assessment they have made of the powers to be made available for that purpose...

Asked by
Lord Berkeley (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Tabled
Date
14 September 2026
Reference
HL3461
House
House of Lords

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to set out a time-bound and resourced route by which foundation strategic authorities may progress to the full devolved settlement; and what steps they are taking to ensure that areas without a mayoral strategic authority are not left with materially weaker powers...

Asked by
Lord Berkeley (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Tabled
Date
14 September 2026
Reference
HL3462
House
House of Lords

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement further fiscal devolution.

Asked by
Baroness O'Neill of Bexley (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 September 2026
Reference
HL3195
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 28 August 2026 to Question 18188 on Devolution, if she will summarise the 43 requests; and what the response was for each of those requests.

Asked by
Katie Lam (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Tabled
Date
14 September 2026
Reference
29802
House
House of Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what taxation powers his Department is considering devolving to local authorities.

Asked by
Iqbal Mohamed (Independent (affiliation))
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
27118
House
House of Commons

Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

Lead member
Lord Oates
Answering member
Lord Lemos
Department
Ministry of Justice
Type
Debates on bills
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc925-941
House
House of Lords

My Lords, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, I thank the Minister and his Commons ministerial colleague Jake Richards for the constructive and proactive manner in which they have engaged with me and colleagues on this Bill. I also pay tribute to my noble friend...

Member
Lord Oates (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc925-8
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Oates, for bringing forward his Private Member’s Bill. I do not want to start on a downer or with a spoiler, but I suspect that the Bill may fail to receive the support of the Government.

Either way, this Private...

Member
Lord Rook (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc928-930
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oates, for bringing this Bill before the House and compliment him on his unwavering defence of the YJB. I will focus my remarks on one particular issue at the heart of the Bill: the Government’s proposed changes to the Youth Justice Board....

Member
Baroness Sater (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc930-1
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I am no expert on youth justice and I am aware that I am surrounded today by people who are, but I support the Bill of the

noble Lord, Lord Oates, because I have too often experienced the results of a Government thinking that by transferring responsibilities in-house...

Member
Baroness Murphy (Crossbench)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc931-3
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oates, for introducing the Bill and for giving the House the opportunity to consider, once again, the future of youth justice. The noble Lord’s intentions are entirely understandable, as set out in his opening remarks. We all want a youth justice system...

Member
Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (Plaid Cymru)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc933-4
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I was encouraged by the Government’s White Paper on youth crime, which highlighted the relationship between complex needs and the experiences of youth justice. However, the increasing prevalence of such needs underscores the necessity of retaining the specialist expertise of the Youth Justice Board.

In my own diocese, I...

Member
Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bishops (affiliation); Bishops (affiliation); Bishops (affiliation); Bishops (affiliation); Bishops (affiliation))
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc934-5
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oates, for tabling the Bill, and I thank all noble Lords for their valuable contributions throughout the debate.

I start by acknowledging the position we are in with youth justice and the excellent work done by the previous Conservative Government to halve the...

Member
Lord Harlech (Conservative; Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc935-6
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I should begin by declaring my interest. Until March 2025, I was the lead non-executive director and chair of the agency board of HMPPS, which was responsible for youth custody services.

I very much regret that the noble Lord, Lord McNally, is not with us today. I had hoped...

Member
Lord Lemos (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc936-940
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for taking part in this debate. So many brought their unique perspectives to the discussion. I reiterate my thanks to the Minister and his colleague for having met with me and the noble Baroness, Lady Sater. I admit to being a little disappointed...

Member
Lord Oates (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 September 2026
Reference
859 cc939-941
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 14 July 2026, to Question 14926, on MHCLG: Public Expenditure, if she will publish a table showing the revised CLG and LG CDEL allocations in each year of the spending review.

Asked by
James Cleverly (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
20319
House
House of Commons

England is an international outlier in the extent to which decisions are taken centrally, and at the same time has experienced some of the highest levels of regional inequality in the developed world. We believe the two are linked. Too many decisions have been made in Whitehall, far away from...

Member
Jim McMahon (Labour)
Department
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written statements
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
HCWS330
House
House of Commons

My Honourable Friend the Minister for Local Government, Devolution and Regional Growth (Jim McMahon OBE MP) has today made the following statement:

England is an international outlier in the extent to which decisions are taken centrally, and at the same time has experienced some of the highest levels of regional inequality...

Member
Baroness Blake of Leeds (Labour)
Department
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Type
Written statements
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
HLWS337
House
House of Lords

Don’t look at me.

Member
Baroness Pidgeon (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c303GC
House
House of Lords

I shall not list them.

Member
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c303GC
House
House of Lords

I think they include the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon.

Member
Lord Moylan (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c303GC
House
House of Lords

Some of the board.

As the noble Baroness says, London TravelWatch plays a vital role as the statutory watchdog for London, championing the interests of people who travel across all modes of the city’s integrated transport network. That is precisely why the Bill will strengthen its rail powers to ensure there...

Member
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc303-4GC
House
House of Lords

I thank the Committee for this debate; I would say “short debate”, but I spoke quite extensively and maybe comprehensively on this matter. I understand what the Minister is saying, but it would be helpful, even if he has to define it differently, to put London TravelWatch, where appropriate, on...

Member
Baroness Pidgeon (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c304GC
House
House of Lords

Moved by

Lord Bradshaw

54: After Clause 12, insert the following new Clause—

“Protection of rail funding settlements

(1) This section applies where the Secretary of State proposes to make a material change affecting an agreed multi-year funding settlement for the railway (“the settlement”), whether by—

(a) reducing the funding provided under the settlement,

(b) altering...

Member
Lord Bradshaw (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc304-5GC
House
House of Lords

The amendment that I am moving is almost self-explanatory. I think that most people in the Room will have witnessed arbitrary cuts in expenditure on the railway. These cuts probably emanate from the Treasury but come through the Department for Transport, which says that it must cut 10% of rail...

Member
Lord Bradshaw (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc305-6GC
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group: Amendments 65 and 73. Rather than the broader issues of funding, mine are much more nitty-gritty questions about the transparency of the business plan and how the funding processes for Great British Railways are to work.

Amendment 65 is to Schedule 2,...

Member
Lord Lansley (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c306GC
House
House of Lords

I never chastised.

Member
Lord Moylan (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c306GC
House
House of Lords

Oh!

Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c306GC
House
House of Lords

I would never dream of doing that. It is inconceivable that I should do that. I drew to my noble friend’s attention an email that I had received that said that he had made a mistake and that the Minister had also made a mistake. I gave no opinion myself...

Member
Lord Moylan (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c306GC
House
House of Lords

I thank my noble friend for that correction. He has shared the email with me. I think it is worth putting on the record the point,

made in that email, that it is important to distinguish between joint ventures on the one hand and corporate activities of companies on the...

Member
Lord Lansley (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc306-7GC
House
House of Lords

My Lords, we are now redebating what was debated the other day. However, since there was an element of confusion, the noble Lord has accurately characterised the difference in position between himself and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, but it was in the context of an important debate...

Member
Lord Moylan (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c307GC
House
House of Lords

I think that was an intervention. I can only speak for myself, but I do not think I am confused now. The Bill does not inhibit this from happening in future and that is a satisfactory position for us to have reached. That is relevant to this debate in that...

Member
Lord Lansley (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc307-8GC
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 54 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, and Amendment 55 in the name of my noble friend Lord Moylan. Obviously, I have not heard my noble friend’s exposition of the purpose of his amendment, which I look forward to listening...

Member
Lord Harper (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc308-9GC
House
House of Lords

May I just say that three months’ notice is not a long time and any arbitrary cut cannot possibly take place in three months because timetables, trains and rosters have to be altered? Three months is a very short amount of time to give the rail regulator to make decisions.

I...

Member
Lord Bradshaw (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c309GC
House
House of Lords

I am grateful for the noble Lord’s intervention. I had not yet started dealing with his amendment in detail—I was dealing with my noble friend Lord Moylan’s—but I listened carefully to what he said and will deal with it when I get to his amendment.

I am not sure that I...

Member
Lord Harper (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc309-310GC
House
House of Lords

My Lords, what an absolute pleasure it is to hear from my railway expert noble friend Lord Bradshaw. It is such a delight that he has been able to join us in Committee in person today and to contribute to our debate, particularly after he had a significant birthday yesterday.

Funding...

Member
Baroness Pidgeon (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc310-1GC
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group: Amendments 55, 56, 70, 78 and 86. I start with Amendment 78. Paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 states:

“Financial assistance given to Great British Railways or a GBR company”

primarily to enable it to carry out its infrastructure functions under Clause...

Member
Lord Moylan (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc311-3GC
House
House of Lords

My Lords, briefly, the amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, on producing a business plan are absolutely essential because, as he noted, the railways need long-term investment. It is not just trains which need to somehow be ordered 10 or 20 years before they are needed but things such...

Member
Lord Berkeley (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 c313GC
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for this debate on group 5 and will echo the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon: it is a delight to see the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, in his place this afternoon. I am sure that the rest of the Grand Committee wishes him, as...

Member
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
10 September 2026
Reference
859 cc313-7GC
House
House of Lords