Sentences with phrase «local councils no»

Local councils are already considering cutting back their provision on the basis that they can afford to offload onto the voluntary sector and unpaid carers.

However, it seems altogether unreasonable for nanny state interventions from local councils to be pushing even more of them out of business.

Referencing both William Shakespeare and Walter Scott, Hannan claims the recent elections for the European Parliament and local councils in the UK were the beginning of the end for the Liberal Democrats: «nothing will come of nothing... as the Lib Dems slide away, unwept, unhonoured and unsung».

But 68 % agree that all further immigration to the UK should be halted, 44 % think that the UK should withdraw from the EU and 56 % are against local councils allowing immigrants to jump the queue (YouGov — The European Elections — 29th May / 4th June 2009).

Public Service Minister Leighton Andrews has rejected all three of the plans for voluntary mergers put forward by local councils.

Meanwhile, the official results from five of the eight local councils, Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, emerged as the front runner having scored 81,929 votes.

He challenged Gordon Brown to reverse the transfer of power from democratically elected local councils to unelected regional assemblies.

Leading figures in the Labour party will call on local councils across England to work together to create «regional economic powerhouses» in a bid to smooth out the «vast» wealth inequalities in the UK.

And so, some of the debates about local councils were ones that I had as a boy, believe it or not.»

What we are motivated by is principle, what we have is commitment, what we have is experience in local councils, European Parliament, London Assembly.

The big baddie of the night is Jill Knight, the former Tory MP behind Clause 28, which banned local councils from promoting homosexuality.

What the government should have announced in December was giving sub-postmasters greater freedom to find new business opportunities and encouraging local councils to see what services they can provide through post offices.

From residents asking if they can roll up zebra crossings to requests to register the death of living people, local councils have published their weirdest requests from residents.

The list - an attempt to introduce the public to how many varied and bizarre demands are placed on local councils in the course of a single year - reads more like a Monty Python sketch than a day - to - day account of local government.

Local councils and local communities need to decide the best locations and environments for the new homes their areas need.

The Localism Bill does not just devolve power to local councils but it also ensures that local citizens and community groups will have the power to shape and influence the places where they live and work and thus fully play their part in building the Big Society.

For example, local councils could come together with groups of firms that want to move from the minimum wage to the living wage.

The Conservatives have expressed more scepticism that the country can build its way out of a housing crisis, while individual local councils have proved resistant to many housing schemes.

They said that local councils had already had to make cuts of 40 % since 2010 and couldn't make any more cuts without serious consequences for the most vulnerable.

He was first elected to his local councils - Lewes District and Beddingham Parish - in 1987, almost ten years to the day before his election to Parliament.

The demand comes in the wake of disastrous election results, which saw the Lib Dems punished in local councils and an overwhelming rejection of AV.

To give just some examples, all regional planning and housing powers will be repatriated from unelected regional assemblies to democratically accountable local councils, communities will be able to develop neighbourhood plans and councils will have greater flexibility regarding housing allocations and tenancies.

But Onah, who expressed concern at the decline in the state's allocations from the federation account, also urged the governor to bailout the local councils.

Aides to the shadow chancellor said the party would aim to ensure that NHS trusts, local councils and others do not lose out, and that services and staff conditions are not harmed.

«On Saturday 12 May 2018, General Mohammed accompanied the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Liuetenant General TY Buratai to pay condolence visit to the families of late Sheikh Isyaka Rabiu in Kano and thereafter visited Depot NA in Zaria before returnimg to Kaduna in the evening after the conduct of the local Councils elections.

In London, there are 14 such contests, held in constituencies made up of two or more Local Councils.

Miliband will also back proposals for local councils to be given more control of the ballooning housing benefit budget.

Asked how well or badly Labour did, the responses were that Labour did well in: London Mayor 99 per cent, local councils 67 per cent, Welsh Assembly 61 per cent, but for the Scottish Parliament only 3 per cent.

Many local councils already offer such as scheme and often it's interest free rather than the interest added scheme the government is proposing.

It will also propose a radical devolution of power to local councils, including over housing benefit and welfare to work for the disabled.

Mr Chaytor's bill proposes handing local councils the power to force bosses to appear before the panels, after several had refused requests to attend.

Local councils are reluctant to approve plans to build retirement homes because of the additional burden this would create on their health and social care facilities.

The Manifesto Club says that it hears of new orders almost every day and is planning to send out Freedom of Information requests to local councils later in the year to see how far the use of PSPOs has increased over the last few months.

This also plays into claims that FOI is an alleged resource burden as [some] local councils and police forces have claimed.

Cameron's plans would see statutory guidance issued to local councils demanding people live in the local area for two to five years before they are allowed on the waiting list for social housing.

«Actually what local councils are showing is that there are definitely ways of promoting the living wage and getting contractors to pay the living wage, which are absolutely within EU law.

Schools, local councils and professionals need better guidance and training to work with migrant families from Eastern Europe and their children, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

How much power would you devolve to local councils, and how much extra control of local taxation would you give to them?

According to the Guardian newspaper, the Home Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government have produced the phrasebook to be distributed among police forces, local councils and government departments.

However, if he claims to be a democrat, he can not defend a system which, in Scotland, in 2003 for example, gave his party 41 per cent of the seats in local councils on 32.6 per cent of the votes.

The heated debate over how government cuts have affected local councils, and campaigns to save local public services such as libraries has demonstrated how people are deeply engaged with what happens in their communities.

The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.

I'd also point out that local councils have less power in a real sense given the decline in central - government funding over the course of this decade.

The Scottish Green Party has two MSPs in the Scottish Parliament and fourteen councillors in 5 of the 32 Scottish local councils.

These newly established positions will lead combined authorities set up by groups of local councils with additional powers and funding.

Town halls and local councils should be at the forefront of Labour's political renewal, driving innovation and reform in tough times.

Since the Local Government Act 2000, all of the several hundred principal local councils in England and Wales are required to review their executive arrangements.

A total of 31 political parties have announced their decision to boycott the Local Councils» election in Kaduna State holding on May 12.

During his tenure as a minister, local councils» budgets were slashed by 20 %.

Local councils have the right to become statutory consultees at both district and county level and, although the decision remains with the planning authorities, local councils can influence the decision - making process by making informed comments and recommendations.