Jim McMahon

Labour (Co-op) — Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

Government roles held

Written answers given

• To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to secure sustaina
• Despite concerns, Reform rushed through the appointment of Norfolk county council’s new CEO, Dennis Bacon. Thanks to Cou
• Kinver Business Solutions has secured more than £1 million in project management fees from Ashfield district council. It
• I thank the Minister for the intervention that his Department has made with the rapid best-value assessment at Ashfield
• The Prime Minister has made it clear that Labour councils should end their power-sharing agreements with local Green par
• The first of the Nolan principles is selflessness—acting solely in the public interest—but, according to feedback from c
• 7. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Pride in Place programme on Wales.
• 4. What steps she is taking to ensure local authorities uphold the Nolan principles.
• 11. What assessment she has made of the adequacy of powers available to councils to stop the opening of vape and barber
• This year alone West Yorkshire trading standards has raided 20 premises in Keighley, seizing illegal and counterfeit goo
• The Minister will be aware of my campaign, which has the support of over 60 MPs, to shut down dodgy shops. I am aware th
• 15. What assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for local authorities in rural areas.
• Shropshire council is in receipt of exceptional financial support following 16 years of disastrous Conservative mismanag
• In rural Cumbria, those without a car struggle to access education and jobs, which is why families on the lowest incomes
• I thank the Minister for his answer and for the funding in Monmouthshire. Construction is beginning at Caldicot skate pa
• I welcome the announcement in this statement that the Minister has scrapped the disgraceful and discourteous announcemen
• The two local authorities that serve my constituency are due to be abolished next year as part of the first phase of loc
• Councils across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have worked collaboratively throughout the whole local government reorga
• The Minister cannot stand at the Dispatch Box and say that the Government are not imposing local government reorganisati
• The Minister will know, because of the many times I have raised it with him and the Secretary of State, that there is st
• I commend the Government on granting Cornwall, by exception, a single-authority FSA—foundation strategic authority—devol
• I welcome yesterday’s announcement of a mayoral strategic authority for the geography of Devon. However, as the Minister
• Were he to consult a map, the Minister would understand that the Creator’s purpose in placing the estuary of the Test wa
• Peterborough is ambitious for growth and to improve life for our residents, so anything that extends this process risks
• The reason this local government reorganisation has been so appalling shambolic is that the Government made political de
• I thank the Minister for his statement. I urge him to make a “minded to” decision as quickly as possible for Hampshire,
• I did not think that the Minister could make things for people in Worcestershire even more confusing than they were. The
• I will start by thanking the Minister for the part he played in getting the announcement of a strategic mayoral authorit
• Still West Sussex waits, and we badly need certainty on the geography of the new authorities for my county. I cannot ove
• I welcome today’s statement, the new transitional funding and the Minister’s work on this issue so far. My understanding
• Like others in this House, I think it is fair to say that this whole process has been a shambles. Like many in the House
• It is right that all options proposed by Nottinghamshire authorities be looked at fairly and properly, so I welcome the
• The Minister is a genial sort of fellow, and I want to believe him when he says that he wants to proceed by consensus. W
• It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to say that from start to finish, this Government’s approach to local government reor
• Like my hon. Friend the Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown), I agree that merging six district counc
• The Minister knows, because we have discussed this many times, that the boundaries of historical counties and cities are
• There seems to be some confusion on both sides of the House about the next steps for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; pe
• As many Members have said, this process has been a shambles, but I welcome the “minded to” approach, and the fact that p
• Six weeks ago, the Government announced that they were scrapping the local government reform proposals for Essex and goi
• North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, the two unitaries serving my constituency, are unanimous in wanting to m
• As the Minister said, LGR and devolution are intrinsically linked, so it came as a bit of a surprise to read on page 66
• I thank the Minister for his statement, but there remains some confusion in Lancashire, so I hope he is able to clarify
• Liberal Democrats support genuine devolution and shifting power out of Westminster, but we have been shocked by the Gove
• When I am out listening to residents in Kidsgrove and its surrounds, they tell me that they want good public services de
• I do not think that the Minister mentioned Essex in his statement, but he made a point about funding which I think is mu
• Councils have spent considerable time and resources building the case for local government reorganisation, including by
• May I warmly welcome the Minister’s statement and his announcement that Gloucestershire will be one unitary authority? T
• The Minister knows about my frustration with LGR and the original outcome. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Bla
• On 7 September, the Secretary of State made a commitment that Devon MPs would be able to hold a meeting with the appropr
• The prize on offer for Gloucester residents from local government reorganisation is the promise of devolution so that we

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