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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.
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29 Apr 99
The Local Government Association's demands for comprehensive transport legislation in the next Queen's Speech has won backing from a House of Commons select committee.
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22 Apr 99
Ministers have rejected NHS finance leaders' calls for financial targets to be relaxed and have ordered health authorities and trusts in England back to the drawing board to eliminate a projected £...
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8 Apr 99
The government is pressing ahead with funding changes for supported and sheltered housing despite objections from housing associations.
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8 Apr 99
Local government workers moved closer this week to having their salaries assessed under performance-related pay arrangements similar to those being imposed on teachers.
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29 Oct 98
Council house repairs in England and Wales are in line for a £1.2bn cash boost from 2000/2001, according to a briefing note from Local Government Association chief executive Brian Briscoe.
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29 Oct 98
New local government finance regulations are being drawn up to improve the accounting of Private Finance Initiative deals.
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8 Oct 98
Business and local government joined forces this week in last- ditch attempts to persuade the government to include Best Value legislation in next month's Queen's speech.
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8 Oct 98
Chancellor Gordon Brown has denied that the worldwide crisis in financial markets and the possibility of a UK recession threaten the government's extra funding commitments on health and education.
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24 Sep 98
Three North Yorkshire local authorities are setting up a combined internal audit service as part of the latest phase in the government's best value initiative.
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24 Sep 98
There has been a mixed reaction to the government's decision to transfer £1bn of education funding from local authorities to schools. The change, announced on Wednesday, is part of the trend to...
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10 Sep 98
Local government education chiefs are to propose establishing a new body to look at the lessons learned from the government's Education Action Zones.
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10 Sep 98
Value for money will still be the driving force in securing Private Finance Initiative contracts, despite the publication of new guidelines this week which some fear could put a constraint on new...
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10 Sep 98
Fundamental changes to welfare reform are likely to be deferred again because of a backlog of legislation that is to be included in the Queen's speech later this year.
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3 Sep 98
The government has cleared the way for an expansion of the Private Finance Initiative into quangos and other non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs).
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3 Sep 98
North East Derbyshire district council has signed the first social housing Private Finance Initiative deal.
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13 Aug 98
The government's success in driving forward the Private Finance Initiative in the health sector was underlined this week with the signing of two further large contracts worth around £190m.
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30 Jul 98
The ministerial reshuffle led to several changes in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR).
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30 Jul 98
Further education colleges look set to reach agreement with the largest lecturers' union on national pay and conditions after five years of failed negotiations.
20 May 99Housing 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.
13 Aug 98The government's success in driving forward the Private Finance Initiative in the health sector was underlined this week with the signing of two further large contracts worth around £190m.
