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  • Cycle Point

    A piece of Amsterdam came to Leeds when Norman Baker and the Dutch Ambassador His Excellency Pim Waldeck opened the UK's first Cycle Point.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Sutton Community Transport

    Celebrates the opening of Sutton Community Transport's impressive new vehicle depot and offices at Beddington Lane.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Asphalt industry alliance's Making Roads Work North of England Forum

    Explaining how DfT is committed to giving local authorities greater freedom to spend money where it is needed.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Local government and the Spending Review: ministerial letter to councils

    Letter to local councils about the Spending Review announcement for local government

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Sustainable Transport 2010 conference

    Speech by Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Councils' red tape cut as 4,700 Whitehall targets slashed

    Cutting red tape will mean councils will be free to focus on frontline services.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Eric Pickles calls for greater town hall transparency

    New research suggests councils could be overpaying by as much as £150 million a year.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Local government accountability

    The coalition programme sets out this government’s commitment to ending the era of top-down government and giving new powers to local authorities…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Town hall waste and duplication

    Transcript of the speech as delivered. Introduction In a speech ahead of the government’s spending review the Secretary of State highlights…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Townhall waste and duplication

    In a speech ahead of the government's spending review the Secretary of State highlights concerns that councils are effectively "letting money slip through their fingers".

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 9,000 parish councils to be freed from archaic payment rules

    9,000 Parish Councils will be freed from old fashioned rules which force them to use out-dated payment methods such as cheques, so that they…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Grant Shapps to abolish century-old payment rules for parish councils

    Parish councils to be freed from rules which force them to use out-dated payment methods such as cheques.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bob Neill responds to a Guardian article which suggests that government will not realise significant cost savings from the planned changes to the Audit Commission

    Local Government Minister Bob Neill said: “The figures suggested today are costs for closing down the whole Audit Commission, but that is…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Transport Times 2010 bus conference

    Buses matter, socially, economically and environmentally, which is why the government is bus friendly and bus focused.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New housing deal will mean new powers for councils and communities

    Housing Minister Grant Shapps has outlined plans to devolve greater powers to councils to meet the housing needs of their local communities.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Call for councils to open books

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has called for all councils to publish their spending over £500 online, reminding them that their January…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Experts join the call to get council spending data online

    Data experts across the country have echoed Eric Pickles’ call to get local authorities’ spending data online for the public to scrutinise.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More than 60 councils open books to armchair auditors

    Local authorities that don’t put their spending detail online are denying the public the right to hold their council to account, Secretary of…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Account books opened as Pickles continues to show public the money

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles continues to trailblaze transparency today by publishing more departmental spending and setting out new austerity…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Transparency trailblazer Pickles publishes more department spending data

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is today continuing to open up the Government accounts to the public and set out new austerity procedures…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government