Clive Betts, chairman of the all-parties parliamentary Levelling up, Housing, and Communities Committee, told The Guardian that there was an "out-of-control" financial crisis in local councils across England. "Councils are hit by a doubl...
England local councils In terms of scale, most of Thursday's elections were in England - the UK's most populous nation. Around 5,000 seats were voted for in 143 local councils across the country. Prime minister Boris Johnson's Conservative party has done well in the early ...
Starting 18 August Local Councils in England and Wales can begin to sell renewable electricity to the national grid following a decision by Energy Secretary Chris Huhne to overturn a law banning Councils from doing this. This change in the law seems set to usher in a local power r...
Watch the latest from ITV News - Voting is open for 230 councils in England between 7am and 10pm today. The results will be announced tomorrow.
Local government in Britain is the responsibility of elected local authorities, which provide local services under specific powers conferred by Parliament. Government on a local basis can be traced back at least 1,000 years, but this concept of a comprehensive system of councils locally elected to...
In those local councils suffering persistent issues with councillor conduct, these processes tended not to be operating. Our research also highlights the particular challenges that arise with regulating conduct in a party political context. 展开 关键词:...
Changes to the Government's Business Rate Retention scheme mean that local councils will become much more reliant on the income generated from council tax and business rates. Under the current scheme, local areas in England can keep up to 50% of the growth in business rate revenues from new ...
Today, a number of local councils across England confront a similar fate. Six of them have so far declared bankruptcy, including Birmingham, the largest council in Europe. The Local Government Association believe as many as one in five could follow suit in the years ahead. The financing gap t...
Although the nature of the UK's future relationship with the European Union (EU) remains uncertain in early 2018, it is clear that Brexit will have a monumental impact on public services, including English local government. The scale of the challenge that councils face is far too great to se...
Lord Porter, chairman of the LGA, will demand at the group’s annual conference in Birmingham on Tuesday that councils are at the “front of the queue” for new funding if “austerityis coming to an end”. The LGA says it is impossible to cut any further. It estimates a £5.8bn fun...