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Local Government Chronicle: Regions to get select committees
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Tuesday, 3 July 2007. Regions to get select committees. We've just had in some more details about what the regional ministers'. Roles and responsibilities will be. The justice secretary's new green paper,. The governance of Britain. Sets out the following on page 38:. 8226; facilitate a joined up approach across government departments and agencies to enable the effective delivery of the single regional strategy;. In summary...
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Local Government Chronicle: Conservatives announce 'regional' ministers
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Friday, 6 July 2007. Conservatives announce 'regional' ministers. The Conservatives have also just annouced their own version of 'regional' ministers for England, although they do not exactly mirror those which were recently annouced by government. They are:. Alan Duncan for Tyneside. George Osborne for Manchester. William Hague represents the Leeds/Bradford area and will have and overall responsibility for the North. 16 Au...
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Local Government Chronicle: LGA conference - the unitary question
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Thursday, 5 July 2007. LGA conference - the unitary question. Gossip is rife at this year's LGA conference on what decisions if any will be made on which unitary councils will get the go-ahead in the next few weeks. The date being bandied around by some is July 25 for a final decision, and some at conference who have unitary bids in are near-convinced they will be given the green light. And particularly the regions. The com...
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Local Government Chronicle: LGC launches 2008 Awards
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Tuesday, 3 July 2007. LGC launches 2008 Awards. LGC launched its 2008 Awards last night on the eve of the Local Government Association conference in Birmingham, and with it some exciting new categories for the best councils out there to enter. Posted by Nina Lovelace. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Local Government Chronicle is a British weekly magazine for local government managers published by Emap Communications.
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Local Government Chronicle: July 2007
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Wednesday, 25 July 2007. Nine new unitaries announced. It appears the uncertainty has finally come to an end. A total of 3.5 million people will see the end of two-tier governance in their area in the biggest shake-up of council boundaries since the mid-1990s. And then the Treasury got involved, making it clear that it would seek to restrict the number of councils allowed to proceed. The financial risk involved was maki...
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Local Government Chronicle: And with the floods come...all the same debates
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Monday, 23 July 2007. And with the floods come.all the same debates. The issues that they talked about; problems with building too many homes on floodplains, the need for better flood early warning systems, changing climates, the lack of investment in flood defences, and the need for better drainage ( sustainable urban drainage. Was all the rage then), are exactly the same which now appear to be making the news this week.
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Local Government Chronicle: LGA Conference - Sub-national review report could be imminent
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Tuesday, 3 July 2007. LGA Conference - Sub-national review report could be imminent. But if there was one thing to prick the ears of the delegates, it was the revelation the Treasury’s sub-national review of economic development and regeneration. Was completed last week. It is this piece of work that will reveal what steps Gordon Brown plans to take to enable councils to grow their local economies. Supplementary bus...Mr He...
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Local Government Chronicle: June 2007
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Saturday, 30 June 2007. Brown appoints regional ministers. The New Local Government Network. Has already leapt on the announcement that there will now be ministers for all of the English regions. Director Chris Leslie and his colleagues obviously view this as a significant step towards proving the devolutionary rhetoric Gordon Brown has been talking is about to become action. Minister for the South West: Ben Bradshaw MP.
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Local Government Chronicle: Housing; Can local government build with Brown's bricks?
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Thursday, 19 July 2007. Housing; Can local government build with Brown's bricks? When it comes to identifying subjects of great British conversations, housing probably comes a close second to the weather in terms of its ability to prompt the normally rational to become suddenly over-emotional. But after having spent so long unable to take the initiative in the way the housing green paper will promise, are councils prepared?
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Local Government Chronicle: LGA conference - Sir Simon talks tough
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News and views about the issues facing local authorities. 10 Downing Street News. Tuesday, 3 July 2007. LGA conference - Sir Simon talks tough. Well it appears Sir Simon Milton (Con) has marked out his opinion clearly on the efficiency debate at the first day of the Local Government Association conference. However in his first speech as new LGA chair. There has been much chat of late in some local government circles about basically decentralising some aspects of the health service, and indeed some are qu...
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