- 06/09/10
- Voluntary and community sector organisations are ‘welcome’ to get involved in the negotiations to establish the new public-private partnerships that are to replace regional development agencies (RDAs), the decentralization minister has said.
- Source: Regeneration and Renewal
- 06/09/10
- Kerslake, HCA boss and former Sheffield City Council chief executive, appointed successor to Sir Peter Housden as DCLG permanent secretary.
- Source: Local Government Chronicle
- 06/09/10
- Eric Pickles and Vince Cable are seeking to calm business fears that local enterprise partnerships (Leps) will be a fragmented patchwork of council-dominated talking shops, as almost 50 bids to set up the economic development bodies around England are lodged.
- Source: Financial Times
- 02/09/10
- About a third of the councils required to register for Britain’s mandatory carbon reduction scheme have not done so, even though the deadline is only weeks away.
- Source: Local Government Chronicle
- 02/09/10
- Moves by Whitehall mandarins to claw back control of almost £2bn in unspent European aid from the soon-to-be dissolved regional development agencies is sparking anger in town halls.
- Source: Local Government Chronicle
- 02/09/10
- The Government may struggle to slash council funding by the 40% that has been widely predicted.
- Source: Local Government Chronicle
- 02/09/10
- Ofgem, the industry regulator, said it was prepared to take “strong action” if it found that npower, Scottish Power, Scottish and southern Energy and EDF Energy were failing to comply with new obligations to prevent mis-selling.
- Source: The Telegraph
- 01/09/10
- Local authorities have cut millions more from their Working Neighbourhoods Fund budgets than advised by the DCLG.
- Source: Regeneration and Renewal
- 01/09/10
- A dispute on Humberside over arrangements for a new Local Enterprise Partnership has become increasingly acrimonious with a war of words breaking out between councils in the sub-region.
- Source: Local Government Chronicle
