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17 Jun 99
Michael Bichard, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Employment, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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17 Jun 99
Labour is urging European leaders to launch a modernisation offensive that parallels its own crusade in Britain.
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17 Jun 99
They were trumpeted as the end of an iniquitous internal market in health.
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10 Jun 99
The burden of policing the European Commission ban on Belgian meat and dairy produce will impose fresh pressure on councils.
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10 Jun 99
Housing associations and community groups were this week invited to copy a savings and loans scheme established in Cambridge to improve low-income tenants' access to affordable loans.
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10 Jun 99
The first takeover of one council-owned airport by another was confirmed this week when Manchester Airport successfully completed its purchase of Humberside International Airport.
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10 Jun 99
Training and Enterprise Councils face abolition in their present form, under government proposals to be published at the end of the month.
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3 Jun 99
Planning regulations must be tightened up so that more people have the chance to rent or buy low-cost homes, ministers were told this week.
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3 Jun 99
The future of national pay bargaining for 1.6 million local government workers is up for grabs, following the launch of a three-month consultation by the Employers' Organisation.
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27 May 99
A star rating system similar to that used by hotels and restaurants is likely to be applied to local authorities as part of Best Value inspections of their services.
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27 May 99
Smokers and homeless people are being targeted as part of a drive to improve the health of some of the poorest areas in England.
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27 May 99
The Post Office did not conceal its anger at the government's announcement this week that it is scrapping the £500m benefits card project as was widely suggested two weeks ago but denied by the...
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27 May 99
The NHS is wasting up to £50m a year on private health care for mentally ill patients after closing nearly 10,000 psychiatric beds, health watchdog London Emergency Health has claimed. In a report...
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27 May 99
The government has admitted that half this year's funding increase for education will be swallowed up by the teachers' pay rise, leaving much less than expected for other improvements.
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20 May 99
Number 10 should force high-profile directly elected mayors on Britain's major cities regardless of the wishes of reluctant councils, a political reform group urged this week.
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20 May 99
Police authorities have rejected claims by an independent watchdog that they are struggling to make their IT systems millennium-compliant.
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20 May 99
The Department of Health is planning to introduce money-back financial incentives for health authorities across the country as part of its crackdown on fraud in the National Health Service.
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20 May 99
Ministers announced this week that they are looking for 40 more councils to apply for Beacon status.
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20 May 99
Housing may be ignored by Labour as the government sets spending targets for a second term in office, prospective mayor of London Ken Livingstone warned this week.
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20 May 99
Local authorities in the north, the Midlands and Scotland will now be expected to absorb 20,000 or more refugees from the Kosovo war, it was revealed this week.
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20 May 99
Comparisons between high and low-spending councils are misplaced and have little bearing on efficiency, according to the University of Loughborough.
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13 May 99
A strong impetus has been given to private sector management of state schools by publication of a government list of selected consultancies that will be permitted to bid for services mismanaged by...
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6 May 99
Home Secretary Jack Straw this week committed Britain to accepting 1,000 Kosovar refugees a week and promised local authorities that the government will foot the bill.
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6 May 99
The English NHS is slowly hauling itself back into the black but a significant number of health authorities and trusts are still in serious financial difficulties, according to the National Audit...
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29 Apr 99
On May 6, the local council elections in England, Wales and Scotland will be an important test of the state of the parties.
17 Jun 99Michael Bichard, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Employment, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
