Devolution

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Council leaders from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire will open devolution talks with Whitehall today.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

West Yorkshire combined authority to be mayor-free

By Jonathan Werran | 16 March 2015

The West Yorkshire combined authority looks to strike a ‘northern powerhouse’ growth deal without...

FINANCE

Uncertainty over local government's funding could harm our relations with business

By Mayor Joe Anderson | 12 March 2015

The next government needs to move quickly to reassure investors, developers and businesses large ...

FINANCE

Scottish Government rails at 'limited' fiscal devolution powers

By Jonathan Werran | 11 March 2015

Senior Scottish ministers have hit out against the ‘limited powers’ of fiscal devolution promised...

BUSINESS

LGA needs to 'get its finger out'

By Heather Jameson | 10 March 2015

The true test of the Local Government Association (LGA) will be how it responds to its peer revie...

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Localism, there really is no alternative now

By Paul Wheeler | 10 March 2015

There can be no rowing back from the imaginative drive for integration and collaboration put in m...

Constitution could enshrine fiscal devolution

By Dan Peters | 09 March 2015

Fiscal devolution to local government in England could be enshrined under a proposed UK written c...

BUSINESS

Pickles to be told The Only Way is Essex devolution

By Dan Peters | 06 March 2015

Essex councils have agreed to make clear their interest in exploring devolution in a letter to co...

HEALTH

Tory leader complains about lack of devolution to Conservative areas

By Dan Peters | 06 March 2015

A Conservative county council leader has expressed his exasperation at the lack of devolution dea...

WHITEHALL

London boroughs should enforce minimum wage, says Labour policy guru

By Michael Burton | 04 March 2015

London boroughs could take responsibility for enforcing the minimum wage instead of HM Revenue an...

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