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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Business Perspective

05 February 2014

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Pickles confirms 2% council tax referendum threshold

By MJ Correspondent | 05 February 2014

Local authorities breathed a sigh of relief today after communities secretary Eric Pickles confir...

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Whitehall criteria for multi-million floods cash released

By James Evison | 04 February 2014

Councils have been handed the eligibility criteria for how the Government will dish out £7m cash ...

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CCN chairman calls for LEP governance to be 'sorted out'

By MJ Correspondent | 04 February 2014

The chairman of the County Councils Network has called for the governance of Local Enterprise Par...

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Councils in Wales to receive £100m in regeneration money

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 February 2014

The Welsh Government has announced 11 local authorities are to receive a share of £100m over thre...

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Oxfordshire City Deal signed

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 February 2014

Oxfordshire has become the latest recipient of one of the Government’s City Deals, in an agreemen...

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Whitehall logjam

By Jonathan Werran | 31 January 2014

The sector reacts to the Government's latest pronouncement on Community Budgets.

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Ministers launch social housing review

By Jonathan Werran | 30 January 2014

Independent review into increasing the supply of social housing will question if councils are mak...

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Older volunteers plug care gap

By MJ reporter | 29 January 2014

More than 5m volunteers aged over 60-years-old are helping to plug the gaps in social care servic...

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Combined authority plan back on track

By MJ reporter | 29 January 2014

Plans for a combined authority in the North East of England are back on track.