Scotland

By Heather Jameson | 20 May 2015

Despite the widely held belief that Greg Clark’s appointment as communities secretary would heral...

DEVOLUTION

Island councils demand commitment on devolved decision-making

By MJ reporter | 20 May 2015

Scotland’s three island councils have called for an early meeting with the new secretary of state...

FINANCE

Whitefield to retire

19 May 2015

North Lanarkshire Council chief executive, Gavin Whitefield is to retire after 15 years in the to...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Dealer's choice

By Jonathan Werran | 19 May 2015

City devolution seized the news agenda last week with the chancellor’s announcement of a City Dev...

WHITEHALL

White Van Man on . . . Scotland

13 May 2015

I’m not a Scotsman but I can see they might get fed up with the toffs at Westminster ordering the...

FINANCE

CPG seeks fairer ways to reform Scottish council tax

By Dan Peters | 13 May 2015

The independent, cross-party group (CPG) launched to look at fairer ways of funding Scottish loca...

Now is the time to rebuild the union

By Heather Jameson | 06 May 2015

Heather Jameson assesses the cost to national unity of the politically engineered divisons that h...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Core Cities to launch devolution declaration

By MJ reporter | 06 May 2015

The Core Cities cabinet will launch a Devolution Declaration next week to encourage the next gove...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Devolution – a new false dawn fades?

By Simon Goacher | 30 April 2015

Simon Goacher hopes that whatever the outcome of the election, all party agreement on devolution ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Miliband's devolution pledge

By Jonathan Werran | 28 April 2015

Labour leader tells The MJ ‘the biggest devolution to English regions’ is at the forefront of th...

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