A London council will spend more than £1m per year on payments to young people in further education, effectively replacing a government scheme scrapped amid austerity, and a bursary for students.
External auditors are set to qualify a London borough's statement of accounts for 2018-19 and 2019-20 on a number of grounds, including a failure to consolidate financial statements of...
Tower Hamlets council remains “some way off” from having its full powers returned following a Whitehall intervention, local government secretary Greg Clark has said.
Day-to-day running of the London borough of Tower Hamlets is to be returned to the authority’s mayor after local government secretary Greg Clark said there had been progress in improving how...
Labour’s John Biggs has won the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets, which became vacant after former mayor Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of electoral fraud and removed from office.
Eric Pickles has proposed extending the government’s intervention in Tower Hamlets to cover all of the council’s executive functions, following a court judgement that removed elected...
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said the government’s decision to send commissioners into Tower Hamlets has been justified after mayor Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of electoral...
