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8 Oct 14
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has asked officials to examine what role Whitehall could have in commissioning new homes, to ensure national targets for construction can be met.
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8 Oct 14
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced the creation the first-ever waiting time targets for mental health services. The plans are part of a proposed £500m investment to ensure treatment for...
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7 Oct 14
Care minister Norman Lamb has set a target for all spending on health and social care to be pooled into one budget by 2018.
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6 Oct 14
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for the reopening of the railway between Oxford and Cambridge to connect as many as five garden cities and boost housebuilding.
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6 Oct 14
Business Secretary Vince Cable has set out plans to increase the pay of apprenticeships by more than £1-an-hour in a bid to encourage more young people to take them up.
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6 Oct 14
A former Treasury advisor has warned that the system of local taxation in England is ‘broke’, and has called for a radical transformation of the state through devolution in response to spending...
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6 Oct 14
Councils would have greater control of back-to-work schemes such as the Work Programme, under plans set out by pensions minister Steve Webb.
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6 Oct 14
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has set out plans for deficit reduction based on a three fiscal rules involving both spending cuts and tax rises.
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6 Oct 14
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has committed the party to implement the One North plan to improve transport link across the North of England and boost growth.
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6 Oct 14
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has revealed the coalition is on track to reduce the number of government buildings in central London to just 23 by 2020, by moving offices to the suburbs.
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1 Oct 14
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to balance the public finances by 2018 and said a Conservative government would not increase taxes to tackle the £25bn funding gap that still needs to be...
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30 Sep 14
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has defended the government’s use of private- and third-sector providers in the NHS as a way to improve the efficiency of the service.
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30 Sep 14
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has pledged to work with trade unions to devise ways to reduce the overall burden on teachers across the country as part of a 'new deal’ for the profession.
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30 Sep 14
The current system for business rate retention is not effective as it does not give local authorities the ability to support growth, the leader of Westminster City Council has said.
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30 Sep 14
Former local government minister Bob Neill has said the government should set a target for half of the total tax take in England to be devolved to councils and combined authorities.
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29 Sep 14
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has set out details of two new government housing schemes that are intended to open home ownership to more first-time buyers.
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29 Sep 14
Chancellor George Osborne has set out plans to freeze the value of most benefits for two years from April 2016 as part of an extra £25bn worth of cuts needed to balance public spending.
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24 Sep 14
A Labour government would reform NHS hospitals to become integrated care organisations under plans to merge physical, mental and social provision, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham announced today...
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24 Sep 14
The centralised UK state has become increasing ineffective in dealing with the country’s problems and there is a need for ‘devo max’ to communities, shadow Home Office minister Steve Reed has said.
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23 Sep 14
Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
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23 Sep 14
Labour has been accused of ‘abdicating its responsibility’ to reform council tax by proposing a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m without setting out plans for a wider revaluation.
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23 Sep 14
No solution has yet been found to the problem of how to introduce greater fiscal devolution in England while also maintaining elements of redistribution, shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn...
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23 Sep 14
Senior Labour party figures have indicated the party is unlikely to lift the current cap on local authority borrowing for housing if it wins the next election.
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22 Sep 14
Labour’s shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn has insisted the party’s plans for a constitutional convention following last week’s Scottish independence referendum no vote will lead to...
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22 Sep 14
Labour has set out plans to create local housing corporations that are intended to accelerate the delivery of up to 500,000 new homes.
8 Oct 14Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has asked officials to examine what role Whitehall could have in commissioning new homes, to ensure national targets for construction can be met.
8 Oct 14Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced the creation the first-ever waiting time targets for mental health services. The plans are part of a proposed £500m investment to ensure treatment for...
6 Oct 14Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for the reopening of the railway between Oxford and Cambridge to connect as many as five garden cities and boost housebuilding.
6 Oct 14Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has set out plans for deficit reduction based on a three fiscal rules involving both spending cuts and tax rises.
1 Oct 14Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to balance the public finances by 2018 and said a Conservative government would not increase taxes to tackle the £25bn funding gap that still needs to be...
29 Sep 14Chancellor George Osborne has set out plans to freeze the value of most benefits for two years from April 2016 as part of an extra £25bn worth of cuts needed to balance public spending.
23 Sep 14Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
