WHITEHALL

Devolution will boost public sector productivity, says ex-Treasury SPAD

By Michael Burton | 12 December 2014

Devolution will boost stagnant productivity in the UK public sector, according to a former MP and...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

PUSH is on to change regs of CA boundaries

By Jamie Hailstone | 10 December 2014

Local authority bosses have called for a change in the rules around combined authority boundaries.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Drop fracking rules says Labour

By MJ reporter | 10 December 2014

The Labour Party has called off the regulations around fracking in the new Infrastructure Bill to...

WHITEHALL

Chiefs critical of coalition's city bias

By Jonathan Werran | 10 December 2014

County chiefs have voiced their criticism of what they claim is the coalition’s bias in favour of...

WHITEHALL

'Hold out' for better devo deal, councils told

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has urged council chiefs in talks over devolution to ‘hold out for a ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Beware the local government that bites back

By Heather Jameson | 10 December 2014

Eric Pickles has created a more confident, more politicised local government with the determinati...

FINANCE

Back off, Brum's chief tells Sir Bob

By Heather Jameson | 10 December 2014

Birmingham City Council has hit back at Sir Bob Kerslake for being too detailed and dictatorial i...

PLANNING

Ten Welsh councils in combined authority push

By Jonathan Werran | 09 December 2014

Proposals issued to establish a combined authority for the South East Wales region able to take c...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Local leadership needed to secure skills for the future

By Mark Boleat | 09 December 2014

The top-down national government approach to skills provision is not working. It is time for loca...

BUSINESS

Councils will look and feel very different in future

By Paul Dossett | 09 December 2014

The narrative of local government austerity is familiar and will necessarily continue to be told,...

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