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Local Government Minister Grant Shapps today said that 2011 will be the year of councillor power and encouraged a new generation of community…
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The volume of top-down information demanded by Whitehall is being radically reduced so councils can concentrate on delivering frontline services…
Restructuring of councils in Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon that ministers called ‘wasteful and unnecessary’, will not go ahead now that the Local…
Local Government Minister Bob Neill returned local leadership to Stoke today by dissolving the top-down governance board that has overseen the…
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Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark today launched a new service designed to help volunteers, community groups and social enterprises overcome…
Letter to councils asking them to consult their communities on how they would like to improve their local area
Announcing plans to publish detailed guidance on the operation of the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF).
Local authorities in England capital settlements for transport.
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps today announced the steps Government will take to overhaul the complex system of council house finance and return…
A landmark bill that heralds a ground-breaking shift in power to councils and communities overturning decades of central government control …
Six essential actions to create a new decentralised Britain where power once again belongs to the people, have been set out today by the Deputy…
With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on finance for English local authorities for 2011 to 2013. The spending review…
Letter from Minister Bob Neill in response to article in the Guardian (02 December 2010) about the claims that the Government is piling new …
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps today outlined how radical new legislation will make councillors more powerful than ever before and help…
The UK Government today announced its intention to cancel planned council tax revaluation in Wales. Measures in the forthcoming Localism Bill…
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