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PAC report: Local Government Finance System: Overview and Challenges

The sector is facing a wide range of risks that have built up during the period of sustained financial pressure on local authorities. After steep funding reductions between 2010–11 and 2019–20...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21:50

Written submission by Defra Secretary to committee on mobilising action on climate change and environment: behaviour change

George Eustice, Secretary of State at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has submitted written evidence to the  Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee on the subject of mobilising action on climate change and environment: behaviour change.

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:28

‘A missed opportunity’: REA left disappointed as new Net Zero measures omitted from the ‘Levelling Up’ White Paper

The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has expressed its disappointment after new measures which would have supported the UK’s Net Zero targets, were omitted from the Government’s ‘Levelling Up’ White Paper....

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:42

LGA statement: Levelling Up white paper

Responding to the publication of the Levelling Up white paper, Cllr James Jamieson, Chairman of the Local Government Association which represents 350 councils across England and Wales, said...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:13

BRC respond to Levelling Up White Paper

Responding to the White Paper on Levelling Up the United Kingdom, Helen Dickinson OBE, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium, said...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:11

Sutton Trust responds to the government’s Levelling Up White Paper

Sir Peter Lampl, founder and chair of the Sutton Trust and chair of the Education Endowment Foundation, said...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:32

TUC: This isn’t a serious plan for levelling up at work

Responding to the publication of the levelling up white paper today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:31

NEU comments on Government White Paper - Levelling Up Education

Commenting on the education section of the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:16

Lisa Nandy's response to Government announcement on Levelling Up

Lisa Nandy MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, said..

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:14

Guidance published on Nominating and appointing to the police and crime panel

Process for nominating and appointing members to the police and crime panel...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:03