Did you mean ' for 1=1-- segment:23420886?
Baroness Hollis of Heigham: My Lords, I support the comments made by my noble friend Lord Smith about the increasing frailty of the existing council tax structure to bear the responsibility we ask of it. I believe I am right in saying that, had the older rates system remained in place, the most expensive properties, compared to the median average, would be in a ratio of something like 20:1. In fact, the ratio of the top...
Baroness Williams of Trafford: My Lords, Amendment 42A seeks to insert a new clause regarding access for the press and public to combined authority meetings. Whatever the whys or wherefores of the press’s engagement with council meetings, I am happy to confirm that legislation already exists on these issues. As my noble friend Lord Brooke has pointed out, the Local Government Act 1972 provides that all meetings of a...
Lord McKenzie of Luton: My Lords, we are fully committed to openness and transparency in the proceedings of local government and have already moved amendments to that effect. However, as the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, said, we need to be sure that nothing in or arising from the Bill could dilute or disapply existing public rights of access to meetings, records and related documents. The noble Lord has also posed a...
Relevant documents: 1st and 2nd Reports from the Delegated Powers Committee, 2nd Report from the Constitution Committee Amendment 42A Moved by Lord Shipley 42A: Before Clause 8, insert the following new Clause— “Access arrangements to combined authority meetings for the press and public (1) The Secretary of State shall, by regulations, provide that, where a meeting is held— (a) between...