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From The Rt Hon Lord Pickles
  • A new democratic, fast track system for decision making on major infrastructure projects to support the UK’s return to economic growth, was …

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  • Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today launched a £1 billion Regional Growth Fund.

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  • Supporting economic growth through local enterprise partnerships.

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  • Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has announced a toughening up of rules governing taxpayer-funded council newspapers.

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  • Improving value for money and protecting frontline services.

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  • Abolishing Comprehensive Area Assessments (CAA).

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  • Councils will no longer have to work thousands of man hours or waste millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money reporting back to Government as …

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  • Eric Pickles has hailed today's Budget for providing lower council taxes and rates for hard-working families and local firms.

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  • Council puts all spending over £500 online.

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  • Taxpayers deserve decent services - rather than fortnightly collections imposed from above.

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  • Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to close down a regional bureaucracy which had been costing £16m a year as part of…

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  • Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has put plans in motion to dismantle regional bureaucracy.

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  • Too often councils are getting ripped off when procuring goods or services even though the nation’s deficit is running at £156bn. Communities…

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  • Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is calling on councils to make every pound go further in the face of the nation’s £156 billion deficit.

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  • Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary at DCLG, has been honoured alongside other local government leaders in the Queen's birthday honours.

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  • Transcript of the speech as delivered. Speech by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles at the Queen’s Speech Forum. You might have noticed …

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  • Councils are being encouraged to support communities who want to fly flags and show their support for teams competing in the World Cup.

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  • The Government has made clear that deficit reduction is its most urgent priority. On Monday, 24 May, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chief…

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  • The Government has today published details of the £1.166bn Local Government contribution to the £6.2bn cross government savings in 2010/11. …

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  • The Spirit of Fire Awards recognise acts of selfless sacrifice within the fire and rescue community.

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