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  • Business rates

    Written Ministerial Statement by Brandon Lewis on business rates.

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

  • Town hall pension changes could unlock up to £22 billion for infrastructure

    Councils could invest as much as as £22 billon more of pension fund investments into infrastructure under new proposals.

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

  • Minister praises Wiltshire Council for saving £85 million on council facilities

    Baroness Hanham hails council's trailblazing asset management strategies that are protecting frontline services.

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

  • Brandon Lewis responds to incorrect assertions on business rate revaluation

    Brandon Lewis responds to allegations that postponed revaluation of business rates is being used to raise revenue for government.

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

  • Business rates

    Statetment by Brandon Lewis MP on postponement of the business rates revaluation

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

  • Localising Council Tax support

    Statement by Barnoness Hanham on localising Council Tax support

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

  • Overhaul of town hall funding hands councils the means to boost finances

    Councils will be freed to generate greater levels of income, encouraged to support local firms and jobs and be well placed to reap the rewards…

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

  • Community budget pilots move one step closer as shortlisted areas named

    In October 2011 the Communities Secretary announced details of how areas can bid to trial 2 new localist approaches to integrated services.

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

  • Power shift from Whitehall to communities gets underway

    An era of Whitehall control has ended with a historic shift in power back to local people, as the Localism Bill becomes law.

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

  • Local government funding

    A spokesperson from the Department for Communities and Local Government said: “The Government has provided a fair and progressive funding…

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

  • Community Budgets: letter from the Permenant Secretary, DCLG

    A letter from Sir Bob Kerslake to local council chief executives about Community Budgets

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  • Councils freed from begging bowl put on path to growth

    Councils will get to keep their own business rates under new local government financing proposals that will be fair and benefit those that grow…

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

  • Community Budgets: ministerial letter from Baroness Hanham and Tim Loughton

    Ministerial letter to local councils about Community Budgets

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

  • Eric Pickles pays tribute to Sir Simon Milton

    Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles today paid tribute to former Local Government Association chairman Sir Simon Milton…

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

  • Community Budgets in 16 pioneering areas

    Eric Pickles speaks about Community Budgets which are being tested by 16 pioneering areas.

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

  • Review could end council dependence on Whitehall grant

    A vision of ‘self-funded’ councils that keep their local business taxes with central grant dependence scaled back except where it is needed …

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

  • Government cutting councils free from red tape

    Grant Shapps is urging councils to move away from Whitehall control and make the most of the new freedoms they have been given.

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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

  • 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