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Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: After Clause 70 - Local authorities: hybrid meetings (24 Oct 2023)

Anum Qaisar: ...service to her constituents, it is shameful that when solutions such as hybrid meetings exist, we slam the door in their face. Since the pandemic, Scotland has continued to allow local councils the autonomy to hold hybrid proceedings. It is particularly beneficial for local authorities that cover large geographic areas, allowing those who live far away from council headquarters to access...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Electronic Cigarettes: Health Hazards (24 Oct 2023)

Nick Gibb: ...policy that sets out what is expected of all pupils, including what items are banned from school premises. This should be communicated to all pupils, parents and school staff. Schools have the autonomy to decide which items should be banned from their premises, and these can include e-cigarettes. Items banned by the school can be searched for as outlined in the department’s searching,...

Scottish Parliament: Transvaginal Mesh (24 Oct 2023)

Gillian Mackay: ...to be heard. Many of the personal testimonies that are included in the report were heartbreaking to read. Women described feelings of awkwardness, shame and embarrassment, as well as a loss of autonomy and self-worth. Many cited social isolation as a result of mesh complications, and that isolation will inevitably have been worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic. Some find themselves having to...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Commons Amendments and Reasons: Motion F1 (as an amendment to Motion F) (23 Oct 2023)

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage: ...areas is being decided. This is good for neither democracy nor devolution. It should be for those areas to decide who takes part in the decision-making. That is all we are asking: for a degree of autonomy for areas to include, or exclude if they wish, the local authorities in their area to take their full part in shaping its future. We have submitted Amendment 13B to indicate the strength...

Written Ministerial Statements — Department of Health and Social Care: Publication of Shared Outcomes Toolkit for Integrated Care Systems (23 Oct 2023)

Helen Whately: ...local shared outcomes focused on addressing the needs of their populations and with a focus on health improvement. We have heard a consistent message from stakeholders that place leaders should have autonomy to select local outcomes that are appropriate to the needs of their populations, whilst also complementing national priorities. Our approach to supporting the development of shared...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Electronic Cigarettes: Health Hazards (20 Oct 2023)

Nick Gibb: ...policy that sets out what is expected of all pupils, including what items are banned from school premises. This should be communicated to all pupils, parents and school staff. Schools have the autonomy to decide which items should be banned from their premises, and these can include vapes. Items banned by the school can be searched for as outlined in the department’s Searching, Screening...

Long-Term Strategic Challenges Posed by China - Motion to Take Note (19 Oct 2023)

Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...the threats and seek deals with a regime which despises and threatens the world. This is a regime that is intensifying atrocities in Tibet and that dismantled Hong Kong’s promised freedoms and autonomy, in total breach of the international treaty, the Sino-British joint declaration. It is a regime that stands accused of severe persecution of Christians, Falun Gong practitioners and other...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Aukus (19 Oct 2023)

James Cartlidge: AUKUS Pillar Two, continues to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autonomy to provide the technological edge in our warfighting capability through prototyping, experimentation, and acquisition. In April 2023, the first AUKUS AI and Autonomy trial was held at Upavon in Wiltshire. The trial achieved several world firsts, including the live retraining of models in flight and the...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Electronic Cigarettes: Health Hazards (18 Oct 2023)

Nick Gibb: ...policy that sets out what is expected of all pupils, including what items are banned from school premises. This should be communicated to all pupils, parents and school staff. Schools have the autonomy to decide which items should be banned from their premises, and these can include e-cigarettes. Items banned by the school can be searched for as outlined in the Department’s Searching,...

Western Balkans: Dayton Peace Agreement - Question for Short Debate (17 Oct 2023)

the Earl of Sandwich: ...they contributed to the collapse of the Albanian Government and the outbreak of war. Therefore, what should be the political solution? There is a plan, brokered by Brussels, to give the Serbs more autonomy in Kosovo through an association of Serb-majority municipalities. This was even agreed by the two leaders in Ohrid in March but rejected in May by both of them. Vučić fears that it...

Core School Budget Allocations - Commons Urgent Question (17 Oct 2023)

Baroness Barran: I think the noble Lord will accept that schools have significant autonomy over their budgets, and therefore it would not be appropriate for me to speculate on where they will make the savings to meet the shortfall.

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: Clause 148 - Guidance (17 Oct 2023)

Peter Bottomley: ...Government to say to local councils, especially parish councils, “You cannot do that.” I hope that the Government will think again, if not in this Bill then in another one. Let people have autonomy and a degree of sovereignty. If their powers are limited, then how they use them should be up to them, in my view. In amendments 242 and 243, Lord Young of Cookham has helped qualifying and...

Devolution (Employment) (Scotland) (17 Oct 2023)

David Linden: ...secretary, is on record as saying: “It’s clear, especially to any incoming UK Labour Government, that the voices of workers across the country now support the Scottish Parliament having full autonomy over labour and employment rights.” That poses a question for our colleagues on the Labour Benches: why not Scotland? In his rush to out-Union Jack even the Secretary of State for...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Hong Kong: Press Freedom ( 5 Oct 2023)

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: ...and other media workers are being deliberately targeted under the guise of national security to silence criticism. The Foreign Secretary has made clear our views on the erosion of Hong Kong's autonomy, rights and freedoms at the UN Human Rights Council and with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, most recently on 31 August. We were honoured to lead a side event in Geneva on 27 September on...

Scottish Parliament: Two-child Benefit Cap ( 4 Oct 2023)

Emma Roddick: ...and as though how they are conceived or born could ever justify a child growing up in poverty. By telling women that they must be raped to be deserving of help, the two-child cap ignores bodily autonomy, the possibility of contraception failing and religious views on the use of contraception or abortion. It ignores the experiences of women. It is misogynistic at heart. The two-child cap...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Hong Kong: Press Freedom ( 3 Oct 2023)

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: ..., Jimmy Lai and others are being deliberately targeted under the guise of national security to silence criticism. The Foreign Secretary has made clear our views on the erosion of Hong Kong's autonomy, rights and freedoms and raised Mr Lai's case at the UN Human Rights Council and with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, most recently on 31 August. We were pleased to host a side event on...

Scottish Parliament: Scottish Parliament Powers ( 3 Oct 2023)

Michelle Thomson: ...frameworks. However, the evidence heard by the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee was overwhelmingly that the UKIMA “places more emphasis on open trade than regulatory autonomy”. Therefore, in terms of balance and of fundamentally allowing devolution to continue to work—the whole point was allowing divergence on matters expressed democratically through the...

Scottish Parliament: Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 3 (27 Sep 2023)

Tess White: .... I appreciate that the relevant committee may propose a debate about the commissioner’s work at any time. The minister has raised that point with me. I also appreciate that the committee has the autonomy to decide on its work programme. However, the reality is that, in politics, the protagonists change and priorities become refocused.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Education: Standards (26 Sep 2023)

Nick Gibb: ...in November 2020, more than £1 billion has been made available to support nearly 4 million tutoring courses, as of July 2023. The Department’s funding system gives head teachers and teachers autonomy over their funding to direct it in the most effective way. Head teachers are best placed to know what will most benefit their pupils, and the Department trusts them to make the right...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Finance (26 Sep 2023)

Nick Gibb: ...such as those indicated by measures of deprivation, low prior attainment, or English as an additional language – receive extra funding to help them meet the needs of all their pupils. Schools have autonomy and the responsibility to manage their budgets. The Department does not hold real time data on individual schools’ costs and spending decisions. It would not be right to base...


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