The coalition government’s proposed reforms of the NHS will leave councils ill-equipped to live up to their new public health responsibilities, shadow health secretary John Healey has warned.
Government plans to make councils pay European Union fines could cost town halls more than £1bn and should be halted, the Local Government Association said today
Local government minister Bob Neill has pledged to hand over more spending power to councils following criticism that the Localism Bill fails to loosen the purse strings from Whitehall.
Some of the highest contributions to the London Crossrail project will come from developers working in boroughs furthest from the line, under proposals published earlier this week.
A London borough has made a formal complaint about the use of statistics by secretary of state Eric Pickles in last month's local government finance settlement.
The ‘least damaging’ way to implement radical reforms to Council Tax Benefit would be to minimise the role of local authorities, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said today.
The government's regional growth programme has received a boost with renewed backing from the prime minister, private sector endorsement and more cash to pay for research
Some 200,000 council jobs will be lost in England in 2011, with the bulk of redundancies taking place before the end of the current financial year, a union has warned
Ministers have urged councils to do more to promote the use of electric cars, and have taken away local authorities’ powers to decide where charging points can be installed.
