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  • 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

  • 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

  • End of the line for dickey straps in Hammersmith?

    Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has today outlined plans to give councils a new power to review and get rid of outdated byelaws.

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

  • Bypass Whitehall and scrap outdated byelaws

    Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has today outlined plans to give councils a new power to review and revoke outdated byelaws. This means…

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

  • Councils get power to decide how best to support service improvements

    A major new ‘localism’ proposal to cut red tape and hand over financial control of council service improvements and training to local government…

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

  • Grant Shapps scraps 'cosmetic' £5 million town hall surveys

    The Place Survey has been scrapped.

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

  • Baroness Hanham takes the 'spending challenge' to Sheffield

    Front line workers in Sheffield met Communities Minister Baroness Hanham on her visit to the city council.

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

  • Minister listens to money saving ideas from frontline workers

    Spending Challenge: Liverpool and Bristol visits.

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

  • Government first as London Assembly questions Bob Neill

    Local Government Minister Bob Neill has become the first minister to appear before London Assembly since its establishment a decade ago. 

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

  • Communities Minister Andrew Stunell brings spending challenge to Woking

    Andrew Stunell is taking the Spending Challenge to the streets, as he visits frontline workers in Woking to get their cash saving ideas.

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

  • Cutting council paperwork

    Grant Shapps has given councils the freedom to improve how they are run without holding expensive and extensive consultations.

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

  • Rebooting Whitehall: accountability to the people not the government machine

    Moving decision-making power from Whitehall to local councils and communities.

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

  • Eric Pickles meets councillor James Bond and champions double devolution

    Moving decision-making power from central government to councils and communities.

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

  • Andrew Stunell spreads the localism word

    Communities Minister Andrew Stunell has addressed a large audience of local government representatives to spread the message about localism.

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

  • Bob Neill says culture change will let us rewrite the rules for local accountability

    Local Government Minister Bob Neill speaks at the Municipal Journal (MJ) annual leadership conference.

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    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.

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    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.

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