Skip to main content
Local government

News and communications

Skip to results

1,408 results

Skip to results
1,408 results sorted by Updated (newest)
  • Stunell wins praise for ending council red tape

    The first parliamentary questions for the department's new ministerial team.

    • Updated:

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

  • Scrapping regional bureaucracy will save millions

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

    • Updated:

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

  • Shapps gives more power to councils to solve local problems with shared homes

    Housing Minister Grant Shapps announces more power for councils to manage shared homes in their area.

    • Updated:

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

  • Councils must become savvy shoppers

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

    • Updated:

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

  • More councils must be savvy shoppers

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

    • Updated:

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

  • Speech to London First

    Speech by the Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Transport.

    • Updated:

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

  • Transport: Local authority major schemes

    Written statement on government's decision to reform the way decisions are made on prioritising transport projects.

    • Updated:

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

  • Local government savings

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

    • Updated:

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

  • Government sets out further detail on local government savings

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

    • Updated:

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

  • How 'Fabio' is your footie food?

    Do you know the score when you order takeaway?

    • Updated:

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

  • It's time for recycling rewards, not bin taxes

    The new Government will scrap the last Government’s plans for the imposition of bin taxes on family homes, Cabinet Ministers Eric Pickles and…

    • Updated:

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

  • Swapping bin bullies for recycling rewards

    Plans to impose bin taxes have been scrapped by Cabinet ministers Eric Pickles and Caroline Spelman.

    • Updated:

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

  • New era of transparency will bring about a revolution in town hall openness and accountability

    Call for councils to put all spending over £500 online.

    • Updated:

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

  • Government sets out proposals to turn around failing Doncaster Council

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles today (2 June 2010) announced a package of measures to turn around Doncaster Council.

    • Updated:

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

  • Eric Pickles calls time on unitary Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon

    Eric Pickles has called time on the wasteful and unnecessary restructuring of councils in Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon.

    • Updated:

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

  • Pickles stops unitary councils in Exeter, Norwich and Suffolk

    Wasteful and unnecessary restructuring plans for Exeter, Norwich and Suffolk Councils are to be stopped immediately the Secretary of State for…

    • Updated:

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

  • Queen's Speech 2010

    Introducing measures to empower local people and to revoke plans to create new unitary councils.

    • Updated:

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

  • Government announces £6.2 billion of savings in 2010 to 2011

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles comments on the £6.2 billion of savings from government spending in 2010 to 2011.

    • Updated:

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

  • Government will intervene in Doncaster Council

    Communities Secretary John Denham has today accepted the Audit Commission’s report on Doncaster Council and has said he will use his statutory…

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • Local government capital finance: amendment to regulations, 11 March 2010

    Covering letter and commentary to local authorities.

    • Updated: