Mr Lee Dillon

Mr Lee Dillon

Liberal Democrat — Newbury

Speaking in the House of Commons on 16 December 2024

Debate

English Devolution

Contribution

Councils are clearly on their knees, and I welcome multi-year funding settlements and changes in the grant programme, but will the Minister confirm that the Government will support devolution so that not a penny of councils’ budgets is spent on it and they can focus on frontline services? In his statement, the Minister said that councils could “take their time to decide on the course they wish to follow”, but went on to say that the Government would “legislate…to create strategic authorities” where they felt that was necessary. How does the Minister square those two sentences?

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