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13 Jul 00
Just two out of five local authorities in London are coping with complex changes to housing benefit introduced during the past year, according to a new report.
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13 Jul 00
The government's favourite stick-and-carrot approach to public services is to be applied to the NHS with a vengeance. To the best, a bundle of cash; to the worst, the black spot.
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13 Jul 00
The Audit Commission is considering a radical review of its fee structure and audit process so that small local authorities pay lower amounts.
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13 Jul 00
The overall annual expenditure for each of the next three years was announced in the Budget, but the departmental spending plans for the next three years are still being finalised and ministers are...
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13 Jul 00
Ways of making government more transparent and accountable are to be explored by members of a steering group appointed this week.
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13 Jul 00
Government plans to restructure rents could significantly reduce the sums available to finance social regeneration, the National Housing Federation warned this week.
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13 Jul 00
The Treasury has ordered drastic action to curb unacceptably high levels of ill-health retirement among public sector workers that cost taxpayers £1bn a year in pensions.
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13 Jul 00
The world's first web-based procurement system for the public sector has been launched in the US, just one week after the UK government abandoned similar plans for departments in Whitehall.
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13 Jul 00
Criminal justice agencies are wasting up to £85m a year by failing to work together effectively, MPs have claimed.
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13 Jul 00
Local authorities remain concerned about the financial burden of coping with asylum seekers, despite news that the government will support newcomers who are not entitled to benefits.
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13 Jul 00
Leader of the Commons Margaret Beckett has rejected claims that the government manipulates the selection of MPs for select committee posts to ensure minimum opposition from backbenchers.
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6 Jul 00
The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee has slammed the Ministry of Defence's management of major equipment procurement projects following a critical report from the National Audit Office.
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6 Jul 00
Democracy activists in Liverpool are launching a campaign for a directly elected mayor in the city.
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6 Jul 00
In a manoeuvre which is bound to antagonise the Department for Education and Employment, the LGA has teamed up with the Capita Group to launch its own consultancy service to shore up beleaguered...
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6 Jul 00
MPs have severely criticised the Treasury for its failure to respond to the recommendations of last year's urban task force.
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6 Jul 00
The Local Government Association has condemned Conservative Party plans to bypass local education authorities as 'barmy'.
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6 Jul 00
The government's vision of town halls delivering services to the public via the Internet and digital TV will fail without further funding, local government leaders have warned.
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6 Jul 00
The Local Government Association's Labour group has won approval for a series of key policy amendments from Labour's National Policy Forum (NPF). The amendments were put forward to the NPF, which was...
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6 Jul 00
Government plans to introduce an 'electronic shopping mall' to buy stationery and other staple items through on-line catalogues have been abandoned.
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29 Jun 00
Councils and registered social landlords must involve tenants at every level if strategies to tackle problem estates and urban regeneration are to be successful.
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29 Jun 00
Greater local freedom is the way ahead for the health service, according to NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton.
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29 Jun 00
After 58 illegal Chinese immigrants were found dead in a lorry at Dover, the Home Office revealed that Chinese people top the list of asylum seekers trying to enter Britain.
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29 Jun 00
The Blair government's determination to downgrade local authorities in favour of control from Whitehall has been likened to Soviet-style centralist rule by the leader of the Local Government...
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29 Jun 00
Alastair Campbell, the prime minister's press secretary, has effectively taken over from Mo Mowlam as 'Cabinet enforcer', according to Whitehall sources.
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29 Jun 00
The government should acknowledge that rationing of services is required within the National Health Service in order to boost public confidence in state-run health care, according to an influential...
13 Jul 00Just two out of five local authorities in London are coping with complex changes to housing benefit introduced during the past year, according to a new report.
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