Shadow local government minister Lord McKenzie of Luton said the changes could cause "great hardship to many".
There will also be a Motion to Regret the new NHS Bodies and Local Authorities (Partnership Arrangements, Care Trusts, Public Health and Local Healthwatch) Regulations 2012 - Lord Collins of Highbury will seek to highlight delays in establishing Local HealthWatch organisations.
Later, a bid by Lib Dem Lord Tope to allow local authorities to cut the council tax reduction given to single people was defeated, by 299 votes to 64, majority 235.
Lord Boyd said the local authority accepted the evidence that she slipped on Vaseline and that in all probability it got there because of an act by sixth year students as part of a prank.
Lord Heseltine noted that local councils had long had the right to switch to elected mayors, but few had done so - not least because councillors rightly concluded that powerful elected mayors drained power from them.
Meanwhile, Local Government Minister Bob Neill and Environment Minister Lord Henley have written to councils in England after concerns that a "small minority" were going beyond their legal powers to charge for refuse collections.
Tory peer Lord Bruce-Lockhart, who chairs the Local Government Association, said the White Paper was "encouraging" and took "significant steps on local leadership, deregulation and cutting red tape".
Housing minister Mark Prisk and DWP benefits minister Lord Freud top the bill at the Communities and Local Government Committee hearing on benefit reform (at 4.10pm).
He told Lord Rosser that the bill required consultation with "local policing bodies", the definition of which was quite wide and would allow for the home secretary to consult with police and crime commissioners.
But Labour's Lord McKenzie of Luton said there was a "genuine local appetite" for unitary status.
First to give a speech was crossbencher Lord Bichard, who focused on standards of behaviour within local councils.
ICC's prosecution of the Lord's Resistance Army rebels, despite criticism from local community leaders who claim that the threat of arrest is impeding the peace process.
Lord Elis-Thomas said the reduction of Wales' local authorities should be part of a wider package of reform, including cutting the number of Welsh MPs and increasing the number of assembly members.
The speech - the first of a new annual series by the deputy prime minister - comes as the coalition is considering far reaching proposals from the former Conservative minister Lord Heseltine to greatly increase the amount of government spending local authorities across England can control.
Lord Beecham wanted to change the bill to strengthen communications between local councils and police commissioners.
BBC: Call for councils to have closer relationship with PCCs
Lord Elgin had obtained a firman, or Ottoman permission from the local authorities, but only after the payment of significant bribes.
In his second report to the prime minister - entitled Growing Your Business - former trade and employment secretary Lord Young also suggests a greater role for business schools in the local economy.
Lord Henley also stressed the need for budgets to be managed at a local level.
One of Lord Mountbatten's twin grandsons and a 15-year-old local boy also died in the explosion.
BBC: Files show US-UK tensions over Northern Ireland in 1979
Lord Jenkin served as Environment Secretary under Margaret Thatcher, and was responsible for local government.
"We want to be able to go into our local parish church, where we are practicing Christians, and under the eyes of the Lord get married, " said Barrie Drewitt-Barlow.
Speaking on 5 July 2011 during the committee stage of the bill, Lord Jenkin of Roding argued that central government should have less involvement with proposed local referendums on excessive council tax.
Normally a small town of around 1, 000 people, its population doubled or trebled during the filming of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, as cast and crew poured into local farmsteads and guesthouses.
Lord McAlpine said that on his one visit to Wrexham he had gone to the local Constituency Conservative Association in his then-capacity as deputy chairman of the party.
Lord Heseltine's new report once again emphasises the importance of aligning political will with local action in the cause of economic regeneration.
Another fun hearing will be the appearance of Planning Minister Nick Boles and Lord Taylor, chair of the External Review of Planning Practice Guidance before the Communities and Local Government Committee (at 4.30pm).
In October and November 2011, U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda to serve as advisors to regional forces that are working to apprehend or remove Joseph Kony and other senior Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leaders from the battlefield, and to protect local populations.
The lord lieutenant role dates back to the time of the Tudors and holders are usually a retired local notable, senior military officer, peer or business person.
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Armagh, Sylvia McRoberts, has also been made an MBE for her services to local government.
Lord Adonis' report More and Better Jobs: North East International was commissioned by the North East local enterprise partnership, comprising representatives from councils between Northumberland and Durham.
应用推荐