Lucy Powell almost always voted for more powers for local councils

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Major votes

• On 28 Chw 2022: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to to allow local councils to run secure schools, youth custody establishments, for 16 to 19 year olds. Show vote
• On 14 Gor 2021: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio for greater public involvement in the creation of development plans, for greater regulation of permitted development, and to make permission for large housing schemes conditional on them starting within two years. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • more proscriptive planning laws
• On 13 Rha 2016: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to make the demolition or change of use of pubs or other drinking establishments subject to planning permission. Show vote
• On 9 Mai 2016: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to exempt local councils from having to require discounted starter homes on certain new developments if they provide affordable home ownership via other routes. Show vote
• On 3 Mai 2016: Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Housing and Planning Bill — Clause 4 — Provision of Discounted Starter Homes Show vote
• On 3 Mai 2016: Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Housing and Planning Bill — Clause 78 — Mandatory Rent Level for High Income Local Authority Tenants Show vote

  This policy conflicts with:

  • charging a market rent to high earners renting a council home
• On 9 Maw 2016: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against giving local government powers to vary the restrictions on large shops opening on Sundays. Show vote
• On 10 Tach 2015: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to require the consent of the devolved administrations and local government before applying new regulations on trade union activity within their areas of responsibility. Show vote
• On 14 Hyd 2015: Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill — Decline Second Reading Show vote
• On 10 Maw 2015: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to let planning authorities insist Londoners wishing to rent out their homes for short periods have specific planning permission to do so on the grounds the authority considers that it is merely "desirable", rather than "necessary" to "protect the amenity of the locality". Show vote
• On 16 Ebr 2013: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to give local councils the power to remove householders' permitted development rights. Show vote
• On 17 Rha 2012: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against an option to make planning applications directly to the Secretary of State in areas where the local planning authority is deemed to be performing poorly. Show vote

Minor votes

• On 10 Ion 2024: Lucy Powell Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill: Third Reading Show vote
• On 21 Chw 2022: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to require the consent of the relevant local authority, Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and, where relevant, Mayoral Combined Authority before a body is designated the employer representative body for an area and given a role in developing the local skills improvement plan which public post-16 technical education or training providers would be required to have regard to. Show vote
• On 23 Mai 2018: Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Boundary Changes — West Somerset District Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council — Review by Local Government Boundary Commission Show vote
• On 23 Mai 2018: Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Proposal for Single Tier of Local Government in Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole — Invitation from the Secretary of State Show vote
• On 8 Mai 2018: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to give local councils the freedom to decide if benefits to cover housing costs should be reduced in respect of excess bedrooms in cases of new local council secure tenancies offered to victims of domestic abuse. Show vote

  This policy conflicts with:

  • reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
• On 13 Rha 2016: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against giving a Secretary of State the power to ban certain types of planning condition in England. Show vote
• On 9 Mai 2016: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to give local councils a right to retain payments in respect of vacant high value council houses to provide new social homes where they can demonstrate a need for them. Show vote
• On 3 Mai 2016: Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Housing and Planning Bill — Clause 72 — Vacant High Value Local Authority Housing — Local Retention of Funds for Social Housing Show vote
• On 13 Ebr 2016: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against turning all primary and secondary schools in England into academies, shifting control over them from local councils to central government. Show vote

  This policy conflicts with:

  • academy schools
• On 21 Hyd 2015: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against allowing the creation of a combined authority to be made conditional on the authority having an elected mayor. Show vote
• On 11 Chw 2015: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against requiring a more extensive set of conditions be met prior to consent for hydraulic fracturing being given. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas
• On 5 Tach 2014: Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Opposition Day — Local Bus Services Show vote

  This vote is also related to:
• On 8 Ion 2014: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to boost housing supply by reforming the development industry; for measures to tackle landbanking; for a new generation of New Towns and Garden Cities and for giving local authorities a new right to grow to deliver the homes their communities need. Show vote
• On 8 Ion 2014: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to give local councils powers to prevent the proliferation of fixed odds betting terminals and betting shops Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • greater regulation of gambling
• On 8 Ion 2014: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to give local government more powers to regulate betting shops and fixed odds betting terminals. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • greater regulation of gambling
• On 17 Rha 2013: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to only allow the Secretary of State to issue a direction to a local council relating to compliance with the code of practice on local authority publicity where evidence of a breach of a code has been sent to the authority and, if the authority has replied, that a report from the Secretary of State in light of that reply has been published. Show vote
• On 16 Hyd 2013: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to give more powers to local communities in relation to high streets and town and city centres. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • greater regulation of gambling
• On 23 Ion 2013: Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio for more regulation of the private rental sector, a national register of landlords, clearer information on charges, and the promotion of longer tenancies when tenants want them. Show vote