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Local Government.

Council services, local authority funding, and devolved powers

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TopicLocal Government
Sub-topicsCouncil Funding · Council Tax
Divisions tagged
22
This parliament
Parties active
13
≥1 vote tagged
Most on-whip
Your Party
81% aligned
Recent activity
10
Most-recent divisions
§ 01Where the parties sit on local government.22 divisions · this parliament

Each row is one party. The bar shows how its MPs voted relative to a neutral midpoint — to the right = on-side with the majority position, to the left = opposed. The percentage figure is the share of that party’s MPs who took the same side: higher = more whip-disciplined, closer to 50% = a freer vote.

PartyStance vs neutral midpointNet %Discipline
Labour PartyLab
+959% on-whip · 360 MPs
Conservative and Unionist PartyCon
-1832% on-whip · 113 MPs
Liberal DemocratsLD
-743% on-whip · 71 MPs
Labour and Co-operative PartyLab
+1161% on-whip · 41 MPs
IndependentInd
+656% on-whip · 14 MPs
Reform UKRef
-2030% on-whip · 8 MPs
Green Party of England and WalesGrn
+1262% on-whip · 5 MPs
Democratic Unionist PartyDUP
-1436% on-whip · 5 MPs

Source · Hansard · alignment is the share of party MPs who voted with the party majority on tagged divisions

§ 02Recent local government divisions.last 5 · of 22 tagged
DateMotionAyeNoCarried
8 Jul 2026Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026
Aye: Support streamlining planning decisions by removing councillors' ability to block small housing applications, prioritising housebuilding and lower construction costs over local political control. · No: Oppose the regulations as an erosion of local democratic accountability, arguing elected councillors should retain scrutiny over planning applications in their areas regardless of size.
283181Yes
9 Jun 2026Draft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026
Aye: Support reintroducing the supplementary vote system for mayoral elections, arguing it gives elected mayors a broader democratic mandate · No: Oppose the change, preferring first past the post as a simpler and more straightforward voting system, and objecting to reversing a previous Conservative reform
35987Yes
27 Apr 2026English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendments 89B and 89C
Aye: Support the government's rejection of a Lords requirement to prioritise brownfield land for development, trusting existing planning policy to protect greenfield and green-belt sites without a statutory brownfield-first duty. · No: Support the Lords amendments requiring brownfield land to be formally prioritised for housing, arguing this is necessary to prevent developers exploiting new mayoral planning powers to build on greenfield and grey-belt sites.
273168Yes
27 Apr 2026English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Motion relating to Lords Amendments 94B and 94C
Aye: Support the government's position in rejecting Lords amendments 94B and 94C, backing the government's preferred version of the English Devolution Bill as it applies to planning and local governance provisions · No: Back the Lords in their amendments 94B and 94C, opposing the government's approach — reflecting Conservative concerns that the Bill gives ministers excessive centralising powers and fails to adequately protect brownfield-first planning priorities and local democratic choice
270172Yes
27 Apr 2026English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Motion relating to Lords Amendments 36, 90 and 155
Aye: Support the government's position — reject the Lords amendments and accept the government's alternative provisions, backing Labour's approach to English devolution including powers for ministers to direct creation of strategic authorities and mandatory cabinet-style local governance. · No: Side with the Lords against the government — oppose the bill's centralising tendencies, including the lack of a statutory brownfield-first requirement for development and the mandatory imposition of leader-and-cabinet governance on local councils.
270171Yes

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§ 03MPs most aligned, by party.Top-3 most-on-whip per major party

By party, the MPs whose voting record on local government is most closely tracking the party majority. A fuller “most active by speech volume + written questions” ranking is pending — needs per-issue speech aggregation.

LabLabour Party

MPConstituency% on-whip
Dan JarvisBarnsley North100%
Peter KyleHove and Portslade100%
Rosena Allin-KhanTooting100%

ConConservative and Unionist Party

MPConstituency% on-whip
Geoffrey CoxTorridge and Tavistock50%
Andrew MitchellSutton Coldfield42%
Simon HoareNorth Dorset41%

LDLiberal Democrats

MPConstituency% on-whip
Danny ChambersWinchester50%
Edward MorelloWest Dorset50%
Luke TaylorSutton and Cheam50%

LabLabour and Co-operative Party

MPConstituency% on-whip
Seema MalhotraFeltham and Heston100%
Steve ReedStreatham and Croydon North80%
Lucy PowellManchester Central78%

IndIndependent

MPConstituency% on-whip
Karl TurnerKingston upon Hull East100%
Diane AbbottHackney North and Stoke Newington69%
Iqbal MohamedDewsbury and Batley69%

RefReform UK

MPConstituency% on-whip
Sarah PochinRuncorn and Helsby43%
Lee AndersonAshfield33%
Nigel FarageClacton33%
§ 04Where local government money lands.Council-service mapping pending
Pending — issue-to-service mapping

Mapping each Westminster issue to the equivalent council service bucket (so “Local Government” → the matching service line on council finance, with the ranked-spend table this section wants) is its own taxonomy job. Council service spend lives on the council pages today; cross-cut by issue here in a follow-on pass.

Sources, methods & last update
Issue taggingEach division is tagged to one or more issues by Claude classification, reviewed by topic admins.
VotingHansard division lists · Commons Votes API
AlignmentShare of party MPs voting with the party majority on tagged divisions
CohortThis parliament · 22 divisions