Lord Sharpe of Epsom: .... As I outlined in my opening remarks, the exercise of PCC functions by the Mayor of the West Midlands will be a significant step forward to realising the Government’s ambitions, as set out in the levelling up White Paper, for more combined authority mayors to take on PCC functions, as is already the case in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, and will be the case in York and North...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: ...public safety functions together under the leadership of a combined authority mayor has the potential to offer wider levers and a more joined-up approach to preventing crime. The Government’s levelling up White Paper, published on 2 February 2022, sets out our aspiration to have combined authority mayors take on the PCC role where feasible. By working in partnership across a range of...
Hefin David: ...on acceptable use of mobile phones in schools so that we have an all-Wales approach to this. We feel the education Minister needs to give guidance on how schools should manage this from classroom level up to senior management level. The guidance should include young people's views, and teachers and school leaders should also be consulted, and we would like to see consistency across Wales...
Sam Rowlands: ...for nuclear development—only possible within a United Kingdom benefiting from a Conservative Government defending British energy independence. And Gareth Davies helpfully celebrated a new batch of levelling-up investment into Rhyl, the £20 million, on top of the £20 million in last year's budget for the levelling-up funding, and this will go some way to making Rhyl great again, which,...
Mark Isherwood: ...and shops increasingly reliant on an older age group of customers, and finished with a warning, 'Use them or lose them.' Natasha Asghar focused on a number of main areas, funding, and referred to levelling-up funding from the UK Government and 13 separate Welsh Government schemes that require consolidation and streamlining to make the applications process easier and therefore benefit our...
Julia Lopez: ...hearing his constituents’ concerns in more detail, and to picking up some of the issues that he raised that we do not have time to go into today. We will be working closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to support local planning authorities, exploring what extra steps are needed, and I will write this week to operators and their representative bodies to...
Vaughan Gething: ...'s a bleak future, because most independent commentators recognise that the cuts to public services are unachievable. Public services being decent is good for the economy. I was surprised to see the levelling-up mission providing £242 million to invest in Canary Wharf, which doesn't seem like the right sort of priority to me. I think we'll see entirely different priorities with an...
Gareth Davies: I was delighted with the Chancellor's announcement that Rhyl is set to receive £20 million over 10 years as part of the levelling-up agenda. This follows £20 million given to Denbighshire County Council from the previous year's levelling-up fund. This is welcome news for the regeneration of Rhyl's town centre, following the cuts to business rates in the Welsh Government's budget, which has...
Felicity Buchan: I really want to make some progress. We are absolutely committed to modernising our planning system. We introduced the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act to enable radical improvements in the way planning works. There are numerous measures in the Act, and future support in policy and regulation, that will modernise the system, making it more efficient, effective and accessible. Local leaders...
James Grundy: .... Hopefully the station will be up and running by 2027, meaning that Golborne will once again see life to it after more than 60 years without a railway station. Leigh itself has benefited from the levelling-up fund. We have had £11.4 million, although sadly not the full £20 million because, as the Minister knows, Wigan Council failed to bid for the full amount, leaving £8.6 million on...
Tom Pursglove: ...process there would be a risk of not being able to contact all the eligible individuals which could lead to some Ukrainians being left without legal status. The Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have had numerous discussions with the Ukrainian community, and there is currently an extensive programme of stakeholder engagement in place.
Saqib Bhatti: ...first ministerial group meeting took place in September 2023, chaired by the then Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, Paul Scully. Ministers attended from the Cabinet Office, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Department for Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education, and His Majesty's Treasury. The group agreed to...
Mike Amesbury: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a statutory regulator to improve the quality of new-build housing developments.
Bob Blackman: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the consultation on a direction to the Regulator of Social Housing to set a Competence and Conduct Standard for social housing, published on 6 February 2024, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending competency and mandatory qualification standards to residential property...
Stephen Farry: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the status is of the third round of the Levelling Up Fund in Northern Ireland.
John Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department has made of the number of residential properties constructed in South Holland and the Deepings constituency since 2015.
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the number of homes for social rent that will be delivered through the Affordable Homes Programme between 2021 and 2026.
Bill Esterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2024 to Question 16462 on Parking: Private Sector, what representations his Department has received from stakeholders on the potential merits of increasing regulatory scrutiny of private parking companies since 2019.
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will commission research on the potential (a) social, (b) economic and (c) environmental merits of introducing targeted Government funding to (i) reduce the number of long-term empty homes, (ii) meet national net zero objectives and (iii) increase the supply of social housing.