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Transparency in procurement

20 September 2011

It is vital that local authorities are consistent and transparent in the procurement process, say...

ENVIRONMENT

HS2 and the planning process

By Dermott Calpin | 20 September 2011

MPs' verdict on HS2 is likely to prove a key test for the Government’s streamlining of the planni...

WHITEHALL

Some unanswered questions

By John Stewart | 20 September 2011

George Jones and John Stewart suggest there will be major conflicts unless the Government clearly...

WHITEHALL

Shaking up parliament's constituencies

20 September 2011

Plans to redraw parliamentary constituencies have taken an unmistakeably centralist approach, say...

FINANCE

The Local Government Challenge

20 September 2011

Winning the Local Government Challenge scholarship is helping Paul Knight learn more about local ...

ENVIRONMENT

Solar power for social housing

By Stephen Cirell | 20 September 2011

Councils can still benefit from solar power, but they need to take speedy action on large scale s...

ENVIRONMENT

Are changes to the CRC lawful?

By Stephen Cirell | 20 September 2011

The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) was introduced into the UK in 2010, but changes announced i...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Bring more technology to libraries

20 September 2011

Libraries should expand readership through innovative use of technology, says Daria Kuznetsova.

BUSINESS

CIPFA: VfM Indicators Benchmarking

16 September 2011

In 2007 five UK audit agencies jointly launched a set of indicators for each of five corporate se...

WHITEHALL

The importance of communities policy

15 September 2011

Hywel Lloyd considers how the profile of communities policy is of a significantly lower level tha...