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What police and crime commissioners do and the government's plans to scrap them.
What police and crime commissioners do and the government's plans to scrap them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the capital budget reduction from 2026/7 to 2029/30 on his Department's delivery of its spending plans, and where reductions have been allocated to meet the budget reduction, with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the capital budget reduction from 2026/7 to 2029/30 on his Department's delivery of its spending plans, and where reductions have been allocated to meet the budget reduction, with...
Departments have been asked to contribute 1p in every £1 of their capital budgets to fund this Government’s Defence Investment Plan, helping keep the country safe in an increasingly volatile world.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will set out further impacts on specific policies and programmes in due course.
The Youth Guarantee looks to ensure young people can access further learning, help to get a job or an apprenticeship. This briefing outlines the guarantee’s components and where it is being trialled.
The Youth Guarantee looks to ensure young people can access further learning, help to get a job or an apprenticeship. This briefing outlines the guarantee’s components and where it is being trialled.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to allow mayoral combined authorities to retain a proportion of additional tax revenues generated by major infrastructure investments in their areas.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to allow mayoral combined authorities to retain a proportion of additional tax revenues generated by major infrastructure investments in their areas.
At her Mais Lecture, the Chancellor committed to work with mayors, businesses and other stakeholders to develop a fiscal devolution roadmap, to be published at the Budget, setting out plans to give regional leaders control over the allocation of a share of some national taxes.
As part of that work, the Government is considering how Mayoral Strategic Authorities can share more directly in the proceeds of growth, including where new jobs, housing and businesses increase revenues. As set out at the Mais Lecture, the Government is looking at income tax alongside other taxes.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage on 16 June (HL Deb col 227), what are the associated costs of the changes to the voting system introduced by the Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage on 16 June (HL Deb col 227), what are the associated costs of the changes to the voting system introduced by the Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026.
The costs of mayoral elections are met by local authorities and are not held centrally, with each authority responsible for managing and retaining its own election cost data. The Government is therefore unable to provide this information.
Our estimate of the additional costs that might arise from second rounds of counting for all mayoral elections in England and Police and Crime Commissioner elections in England and Wales over the 10-year period from 2026/27 to 2035/36 is £12.5m, comprising approximately £5.8m for Police and Crime Commissioner elections and £6.7m for mayoral elections. This estimate includes elections for elected local authority mayors, combined authority mayors, combined county authority mayors, the Mayor of London and Police and Crime Commissioners. This estimate does not factor in the Home Office’s plans to abolish the role of Police and Crime Commissioner.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which funding streams are available to Mayoral Combined Authorities which are not available to areas without MCAs, and how much is being spent per year through each of these funding streams.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which funding streams are available to Mayoral Combined Authorities which are not available to areas without MCAs, and how much is being spent per year through each of these funding streams.
MHCLG provides various funding streams exclusively to Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSA), including:
- Mayoral Capacity Fund (MCF): the Department allocated approximately £44 million to MSAs in 2026-27 through MCF. Approximately £3 million of this funding is subject to local consent to establish MSAs in Greater Essex and Norfolk and Suffolk. Further information on allocations for the Spending Review period is available here.
- Investment Funds: MHCLG has allocated approximately £522 million to MSAs in 2026-27 through Investment Funds. Approximately £32 million of this funding is subject to local consent to establish MSAs in Greater Essex and Norfolk and Suffolk.
- Integrated Settlements (IS): MHCLG has allocated approximately £3.6 billion to MSAs through the IS in 2026-27, rising to £4.3 billion in 2028-29. Some of the funds consolidated within the IS are also provided to non-MSA areas. Further information is available here.
- Local Growth Fund (LGF): MHCLG has allocated £202 million to MSAs through the Local Growth Fund in 2026-27, rising to £262 million in 2028-29. For areas with an Integrated Settlement, this funding is delivered via the Integrated Settlement. Further information is available here.
- Mayoral Revolving Growth Fund (MRGF): MHCLG will also provide £500 million to MSAs through the MRGF. Further information is available here.
To understand the funding given to MSAs more fully, information is outlined in each MSA annual report. Other government departments will hold the information on funding they provide.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of differing levels of skills funding between mayoral and non-mayoral combined authorities on trends in the level of (a) educational achievement, (b) regional social mobility, and (c) job creation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of differing levels of skills funding between mayoral and non-mayoral combined authorities on trends in the level of (a) educational achievement, (b) regional social mobility, and (c) job creation.
Skills provision is funded in a number of different ways including but not limited to 16-19 funding, the Adult Skills Fund (ASF), Apprenticeships funding, and Advanced Learner Loans. There are no plans to make the proposed assessment, as the costs to do so would be disproportionate.
The ASF fully funds or co-funds education and skills training for eligible adults aged 19 and above from pre-entry to level 3, to help them gain the skills they need for work, an apprenticeship or further learning, with the aim to in particular support adults with low earnings or skills, both in work and unemployed.
As of August 2025, approximately 68% of the ASF is devolved to 12 Strategic Authorities (SAs) and the Greater London Authority. These authorities are responsible for the provision of ASF-funded adult education for their residents and allocation of the ASF to learning providers. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the remaining ASF in non-devolved areas.
The current levels of funding for the devolved authorities and the residual share for serving learners in non-devolved areas are based on their share of the Adult Education Budget in 2017/18 (the previous name for the Adult Skills Fund).
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to prevent abuse of the Independent Office for Police Conduct regime in relation to (a) politically-motivated complaints, and (b) complaints which do not relate to the current policing responsibilities of the combined authority mayor.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to prevent abuse of the Independent Office for Police Conduct regime in relation to (a) politically-motivated complaints, and (b) complaints which do not relate to the current policing responsibilities of the combined authority mayor.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has a limited role in the complaints system in relation to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and elected politicians exercising PCC functions, such as combined authority mayors.
Such complaints are dealt with in the first instance by local Police and Crime Panels, which are responsible for handling all complaints about PCCs. They can refer a complaint about a PCC (or mayor with PCC functions) to the IOPC only where there is an indication that a criminal offence has been committed. Handling should include local arrangements to rule out vexatious or politically motived complaints. The IOPC determines whether it is necessary for it to investigate such referrals.
We expect to set out successor arrangements for the scrutiny and oversight of police governance in the forthcoming Police Reform Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of combined authority mayors on ICBs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of combined authority mayors on ICBs.
Subject to its passage through Parliament, the Health Bill will provide for at least one integrated care board (ICB) member to be nominated by the mayor of each mayoral strategic authority in the ICB’s footprint.
As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, this will support greater alignment and co-ordination between local government and the NHS on strategic planning, including action to address the wider determinants of the health of local communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2026 to Question 1940 on Combined Authorities: Surrey, whether the strategic authority will have a mayor.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2026 to Question 1940 on Combined Authorities: Surrey, whether the strategic authority will have a mayor.
On 12 February, the Government wrote to all local authorities without a devolution agreement, including those in Surrey, inviting them to develop proposals for a non-mayoral Foundation Strategic Authority. The government is considering the proposals received.
Mayoral devolution works best when it is built on strong local foundations. While there is no requirement for areas with a Foundation Strategic Authority to move to a mayoral model, we see Foundation Strategic Authorities as an important step in building institutional capability at the regional level ahead of, and to maximise the effectiveness of, any future move to mayoral devolution.
Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
My Lords, over the last year Parliament has debated, agreed and decided that the voting system for mayors and police and crime commissioners should be changed to the supplementary voting system, or SV, through the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, which received Royal Assent in April. I remember...
My Lords, over the last year Parliament has debated, agreed and decided that the voting system for mayors and police and crime commissioners should be changed to the supplementary voting system, or SV, through the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, which received Royal Assent in April. I remember...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introductory comments, and I shall return to one or two of the points that she made in a moment.
It is worth being honest in relation to election changes. In every party, when they make election law changes, they may hide it...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introductory comments, and I shall return to one or two of the points that she made in a moment.
It is worth being honest in relation to election changes. In every party, when they make election law changes, they may hide it...
My Lords, I concur 100% with the comments from my noble friend Lord Hayward. I am going to take this statutory instrument at face value and discuss the issues that it raises on the alternative vote and first past the post. As noble Lords will know, when proportional representation was...
My Lords, I concur 100% with the comments from my noble friend Lord Hayward. I am going to take this statutory instrument at face value and discuss the issues that it raises on the alternative vote and first past the post. As noble Lords will know, when proportional representation was...
My Lords, methinks the previous speakers on the Conservative Benches do protest too much. First, I remind the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, that it was the Conservative Government, I believe, who introduced the supplementary vote in the first place. So that puts that argument to one side. Secondly, his argument...
My Lords, methinks the previous speakers on the Conservative Benches do protest too much. First, I remind the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, that it was the Conservative Government, I believe, who introduced the supplementary vote in the first place. So that puts that argument to one side. Secondly, his argument...
My Lords, before I speak—although I am not sure it is a conflict in this issue— I need to declare that I am a councillor in Central Bedfordshire. I thank noble Lords for speaking in this debate. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, who I think at the end...
My Lords, before I speak—although I am not sure it is a conflict in this issue— I need to declare that I am a councillor in Central Bedfordshire. I thank noble Lords for speaking in this debate. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, who I think at the end...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their considered contributions today. I first pick up the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Jamieson, about the principle behind this. I think that is the most important thing; I did set it out in my introductory speech. It is that...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their considered contributions today. I first pick up the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Jamieson, about the principle behind this. I think that is the most important thing; I did set it out in my introductory speech. It is that...
I thank the Minister for giving way. I am very pleased indeed by her commitment to write to me. My noble friend Lord Jamieson referred to the associated costs of introducing this process. Could we possibly have both at the same time?
I thank the Minister for giving way. I am very pleased indeed by her commitment to write to me. My noble friend Lord Jamieson referred to the associated costs of introducing this process. Could we possibly have both at the same time?
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