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Zöe Franklin MP: speeches

4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress

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Speeches

  • 15 Sept 2026 · Tourism: Overnight Visitor Levy · Hansard source
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    Liberal Democrats have long championed our high streets, tourism and hospitality sectors. While we strongly support devolving economic powers, businesses are already struggling under mounting costs, a VAT rate higher than that of our international peers and the Government’s national insurance contributions hike. Without support, an overnight levy risks looking less like genuine devolution and more like another short-term tax grab. If Ministers hand local mayors and foundation strategic authorities the power to introduce levies, they must bring forward vital sector relief—an emergency 5p VAT cut, relief from NICs and so forth—and must not reduce local government funding as a result. Can the Minister confirm when this House will see full details of the levy? Specifically, will Ministers implement a cap and sector support to protect local tourism and hospitality?

  • 7 Sept 2026 · Regional Devolution: Funding · Hansard source
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    I welcome the Prime Minister’s indication that newly formed local authorities will not be forced to have a strategic mayor in order to benefit from devolution. However, the key to success will be ensuring real fiscal devolution to support and deliver services and economic growth for residents. Will the Minister set out how the Department will ensure that for non-mayoral strategic authorities, including the emerging foundation strategic authority in Surrey, where my constituency is based? How will she ensure that our area receives the financial resources to make meaningful funding decisions at a regional level, including by accessing funding streams currently available only to mayoral strategic authorities?

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4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026. Existing keyword taxonomy applied to official debate titles and contributions; a contribution may appear in more than one topic and unclassified records are retained.

View as listCommunities and local government: 9Communities and local government9Culture, media and sport: 1Culture, media and sport1Democracy and constitution: 7Democracy and constitution7Economy and business: 2Economy and business2Education and skills: 1Education and skills1Environment and energy: 1Environment and energy1Housing and planning: 1Housing and planning1Justice and policing: 3Justice and policing3Social security and pensions: 2Social security and pensions2Transport: 1Transport1
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Department or topicPublished records
Communities and local government9
Culture, media and sport1
Democracy and constitution7
Economy and business2
Education and skills1
Environment and energy1
Housing and planning1
Justice and policing3
Social security and pensions2
Transport1

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