Local Government
On this page you can view all reports, special reports, oral and written evidence published by the Committee relating to local government matters. You can also view any Government Replies received by the Committee and details of any current inquiries in this subject area. This is divided into Parliamentary Sessions:
2005-06
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2004-05
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2003-04
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2002-03
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2001-02
2005-06
Local Government Finance
HC 702, Oral evidence and supplementary written evidence
Witnesses: Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Chairman, Sir Jeremy Beecham, Vice-Chairman and Leader of the Labour Group, Sir David Williams, Chair of the LGA Liberal Democrat Group, and Sir Brian Briscoe, Chief Executive, The Local Government Association
Re-licensing
The Committee has announced a one-off evidence session on Re-licensing. Please see the
Re-licensing page for further details.
2004-05
The Role and Effectiveness of the Local Government Ombudsman for England
Eleventh Report from the Committee, Session 2004-05, HC 458 published on 7 April 2005
Second Special Report: The Role and Effectiveness of the Local Government Ombudsmen for England: Government Response to the Committee's Eleventh Report of Session 2004-05
Written Evidence:
Written evidence submitted to the Committee was published as
an appendix to the report.
Oral Evidence:
Tuesday 15 March 2005, HC 458-i
9.15am Mr Jerry White, Mrs Patricia Thomas and Mr Tony Redmond, Local Government Ombudsmen for England
Local Government Consultation
Tenth Report from the Committee, Session 2004-05, HC 316-I published on 7 April 2005
Written Evidence:
HC 316-II, Session 2004-05 published on 21 February 2005
Supplementary written evidence submitted after 21 February 2005 was published as
an appendix to the report.
Oral Evidence:
Tuesday 22 February 2005, HC 316-i
9.30am Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)
10.20am Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
Tuesday 1 March 2005, HC 316-ii
9.30am MORI Social Research Institute
10.20am Brighton and Hove City Council, London Borough of Lewisham and Leicester City Council
Tuesday 8 March 2005, HC 316-iii
9.15am Phil Hope MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, and Paul Rowsell, Head of Democracy and Local Government, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Ward Boundaries
Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 2004-05, HC 315 published on 7 April 2005
Written Evidence:
Written evidence submitted to the Committee was published as
an appendix to the report.
Oral Evidence:
Monday 7 March 2005, HC 315-i
4.15pm Sam Younger, Chairman and Pamela Gordon, Electoral Commissioner, Electoral Commission
The Role and Effectiveness of the Standards Board for England
Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 2004-05, HC 60-I published on 6 April 2005
Written Evidence:
HC 1118-II, Session 2003-04 published on 17 November 2004
Supplementary written evidence submitted to the Committee after 17 November 2004 was published as
an appendix to the report.
Oral Evidence:
Monday 6 December 2004, HC 60-i
4.15pm London Borough of Hackney, Haverhill Town Council and Birmingham City Council
4.45pm South Ribble Borough Council’s Standards Committee, City of Durham Standards Committee and Northamptonshire County Council’s Standards Committee
5.15pm National Association for Local Councils and Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors
5.45pm Local Government Association
Monday 17 January 2005, HC 60-ii
4.15pm Audit Commission
4.45pm Sir Anthony Holland, Chair, David Prince, Chief Executive (and Accounting Officer), and Paul Hoey, Head of Policy and Guidance, Standards Board for England
5.20pm Rt. Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Minister for Local and Regional Government and Fire, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Electoral Registration
Constitutional Affairs and ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee: First Joint Report of Session 2004-05, HC 243-I published on 24 March 2005
Written Evidence:
HC 243-II, Session 2004-05 published on 25 January 2005
Supplementary written evidence submitted to the Committees after 25 January 2005 was published as
HC 243-III on 4 April 2005
Oral Evidence:
Tuesday 25 January 2005, HC 243-i
2.15 pm Sam Younger, Chairman, and Pamela Gordon, Commissioner, Electoral Commission
3.00 pm Francis Aldhouse, Deputy Information Commissioner, and Jonathan Bamford, Assistant Commissioner, Information Commissioner
3.45 pm David Simpson, Head of Compliance and Data Protection, Conservative Party, Peter Watt, Head of the Constitutional and Legal Unit, Labour Party, and Mark Pack, Internet and Communications Officer, Liberal Democrats
Tuesday 1 February 2005, HC 243-ii
2.15pm Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB), Operation Black Vote, Help the Aged and the British Youth Council
3.00pm Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA), Scottish Assessors Association and SOLACE
Monday 7 February 2005, HC 243-iii
4.15pm Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Minister for Local and Regional Government and Fire, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and Christopher Leslie MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs
2003-04
Gypsy and Traveller Sites
Thirteenth Report from the Committee, Session 2003-04, HC 633-I published on 8 November 2004
Written Evidence:
633-II, Session 2003-04 published on 17 June 2004
Supplementary written evidence submitted to the Committee after 17 June 2004 was published as
HC 633-III on 8 November 2004
Oral Evidence:
Tuesday 22 June 2004, HC 633-i
9.30am Dr Donald Kenrick and Dr Rob Home
9.50am
The Traveller Law Reform Coalition: Siobhan Spencer - Co-ordinator Derbyshire Gypsy Traveller Liaison Group, Kay Beard - Chair National Association of Gypsy Women, Tom Sweeney - Co Chair Irish Traveller Movement Britain, Cliff Codona - Chair National Travellers Action Group and Charles Smith - Chair of the Gypsy Council
10.20am Hughie Smith, President, and Tom Lingard, Assistant Secretary, The Gypsy Council
Tuesday 29 June 2004, HC 633-ii
9.15am Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)
9.30am Pat Niner, Researcher into the bi-annual Gypsy and Traveller Counts
9.45am Cottenham Residents Association
10.00am Traveller's Advice Team, Community Law Partnership
10.15am National Association of Gypsy and Traveller Liaison Officers
Tuesday 13 July 2004, HC 633-iii
9.15am Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
9.40am Local Government Association (LGA) and the National Association of Local Councils (NALC)
10.05am Rt Hon Keith Hill MP, Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Dawn Eastmean, Head of Housing Management Division, and John Stambollouian, Head of Planning Directorate Division, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Government Response:
Cm 6465 published in January 2005
Local Government Revenue
Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 2003-04, HC 402-I published on 16 July 2004
Written Evidence:
HC 402-II, Session 2003-04 published on 22 April 2004
Supplementary written evidence submitted to the Committee after 22 April 2004 was published as
HC 402-III on 20 July 2004
Oral Evidence:
Tuesday 27 April 2004, HC 402-i
9.30am New Policy Institute, Policy Exchange and the New Local Government Network
10.15am Professor Glen Bramley, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh and Professor Tony Travers, London School of Economics
11.00am Officials from HM Treasury and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Tuesday 11 May 2004, HC 402-ii
9.30am Somerset County Council and Somerset Association of Local Councils
10.30am South West Regional Development Agency and South West Tourism
11.00am Is it Fair? Campaign
Tuesday 18 May 2004, HC 402-iii
9.15am Chris Pond MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Work), Department for Work and Pensions
10.00am ONE North East (Regional Development Agency) and the Chamber of Commerce in the North East
Tuesday 25 May 2004, HC 402-iv
9.30am Association of North East Councils
10.30am Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
Wednesday 23 June 2004, HC 402-v
3.00pm John Healey MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury
3.40pm David Miliband MP, Minister of State for School Standards, Department for Education and Skills.
4.10pm Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Minister of State for Local and Regional Government, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
5.15pm Local Government Association
Government Response:
Cm 6321 published in October 2004
Postal Voting
Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 2003-04, HC 400-I published on 20 May 2004
Written Evidence:
HC 400-II, Session 2003-04 published on 2 March 2004
Supplementary written evidence submitted to the Committee after 2 March 2004 was published as
HC 400-III on 20 May 2004
HC 400-IV, Session 2003-04 published on 21 July 2004 - Postal Voting: Follow-up to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2003-04 [Following the June 2004 European Elections where postal voting was piloted in several English Regions, the Committee wrote to electoral officers asking them to comment on the experiment. The evidence submitted is printed here.]
Oral Evidence:
Tuesday 9 March 2004, HC 400-i
9.40am Electoral Commission and the Association of Electoral Administrators
10.20am Bill Crawford, Sunderland Council Electoral Administrator, Sunderland (NE region) Borough Council Electoral Administrator, Roger Morris, Chief Executive and Town Clerk, East Midlands Regional Returning Officer, Christine Mason, Electoral Services Manager, Wakefield (Yorkshire & the Humber) Metropolitan Council Electoral Administrator, John Pitt, Corporate Director (Resources), Wakefield (Yorkshire & the Humber) Metropolitan Council Returning Officer
11.00am Local Government Association and the National Association of Local Councils (NALC)
Tuesday 16 March 2004, HC 400-ii
9.15am H. S. Chapman Society and the Electoral Reform Society
9.45am Metropolitan Special Police Branch
10.10am SCOPE, Mr Martin Fuller, Director Service Personnel Policy Service Conditions and Colonel Don Kent, Deputy Chief Executive, British Forces Post Office, Ministry of Defence
10.40am Royal Mail, Electoral Reform Services, De La Rue Security Products
Keith Brown, Director of Business Development, De La Rue Security Products Division and Document Technology Ltd
Wednesday 17 March 2004, HC 400-iii
9.15am Councillor Suzanne Fletcher MBE, Stockton on Tees Borough Council and Councillor Rosemary Wyeth, Chairman, Codford Parish Council
9.35am Grant Thoms, Head of Campaign Unit, Scottish National Party, Geoff Forse, Elections Co-ordinator, Green Party, and Mark Croucher, Policy Research Team, UK Independence Party
9.55am Peter Watt, Head of Constitutional and Legal Unit, Labour Party, Gavin Barwell, Operations Director and Registered Treasurer, Conservative Party, and Lord Greaves, Liberal Democrat Peer
10.40am Rt Hon. Nick Raynsford MP, Minister of State, Local and Regional Government, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and Christopher Leslie MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs
Government Response:
Government Response to and the Electoral Commission's Observations on the Committee's Seventh Report, Session 2003-04, Postal Voting - First Special Report from the Committee, Session 2003-04, HC 973 published on 6 August 2004
2002-03
Local Government Finance: Formula Grant Distribution
First Report from the Committee, Session 2002-03, HC 164-I published on 3 January 2003
Written Evidence:
Several memoranda were submitted to the Committee after the oral evidence session on 6 December 2002, these were published on 13 January 2004 as
HC 164-II.
Oral Evidence:
Friday 6 December 2002, HC 164-i
9.00am Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)
9.15am County Councils Network, Association of London Government and the Sparsity Partnership for Authorities delivering Rural Services (SPARSE)
9.40am Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities (SIGOMA) and the High Ethnicity Special Interest Group
10.00am Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Minister of State for Local Government, the Regions and Fire, Robert Davies and Bob Linnard, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Government Response:
Cm 5753 published in February 2003
2001-02
There were no inquiries on local government matters carried out by the Committee in Session 2001-02