Valerie Chairs Further Session of English Devolution Bill Committee

I chaired the 10th sitting of the Public Bill Committee on 23 October 2025, scrutinising the Bill line by line. This session considered Arrangements relating to single tiers of local government.

This Bill reforms local government in England and gives communities the right to shape their local areas. It will also restore the supplementary vote system for mayoral elections in England, and police and crime commissioner elections in England and Wales. This will increase the accountability Mayors have to their electorate, including a Public Accounts Committee to scrutinise their spending. 

There will be further sessions where the Bill will undergo further line by line scrutiny in Committee.   

The Committee is expected to conclude and report to the House by Wednesday 12 November 2025.