Tag Archives: Eric Pickles
Local Growth according to Pickles
The Rt. Hon. Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, yesterday addressed the All Party Parliamentary Group on Local Government on the issue of economic growth.
Local Government Finance Settlement 2013/14
The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, announced the Local Government Finance Settlement Consultation 2013/2014 to the House of Commons on Wednesday 19 December. Find out more here.
Local Government Finance Settlement 2013/14
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, will announce the Local Government Finance Settlement 2013/14 on Wednesday 19th December.
The new DCLG line-up
As Dan Drillsma-Milgrom reported for the LGC ”David Cameron’s first wide-ranging ministerial reshuffle has seen local government left with a substantially changed ministerial team at the Department for Communities & Local Government”. Here’s the new team and their responsibilites: Secretary of …
Pickles invites bloggers deeper into the Town Hall
Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities, seems to love transparency. Back in June 2010 he asked councils to publish all spending data over £500. His department matched it and just last week announced they were lowering …
Soon all spending data over £250 will be published online
Since August 2010 the Department for Communities and Local Government has been publishing details of all goods and services spent over £500 – matching a demand it made of councils in June of that year. Now it appears Eland House …
Taking forward Community Budgets
Community Budgets were introduced in October 2010 as part of the Spending Review with the aim of bringing different national and local funding streams together into a single local funding pot and, by doing so enabling various different local agencies, …
Local government’s Magna Carta’ needs to bring communities with it
Readers au fait with Coalition localism rhetoric will know that we are the most centralised country in Europe - though many of us may fear that not enough is being done about it. As the implementation of many of the best publicised …
Photos from C’llr Awards 2012
Followers of this blog will know that the C’llr Awards 2012 took place last Monday evening. We have gathered some of the best photos from the night and shared them below. The Awards, hosted at Westminster City Council, have gone …
C’llr Achievement Awards 2012: all winners
LGiU and CCLA are delighted to announce the winners of the C’llr Achievement Awards 2012. The Awards, hosted at Westminster City Council, have gone to the great and good of local government; those councillors who have gone the extra mile …
