Sentences with phrase «combined authorities powers»

Miliband also met the group to set out his plans to give combined authorities powers over bus services.

The table below sets out the agreed combined authority powers in the different city regions so far:

Not exact matches

He was put to death by the combined will of the religious authorities, the populace, and the forces of law and order — what the Bible calls «principalities and powers.»

It's part of Labour's proposal to devolve power to metro mayors with control over combined authorities, which already exist in other core cities (Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool) and could be a key part of the answer in Bristol.

Interestingly the comments from Chuka Umunna are not about devolving to LEPs (unelected, undemocratic bodies) but about the creation of combined authorities and directly elected metro mayors — a much better solution than some of the original suggestions to give power and resource to the LEPs.

Electoral autocracies, are non-democratic regimes that combine the existence of otherwise democratic institutions, like courts, parliaments, electoral authorities, with an autocratic exercise of power.

The Smith Commission has set out a raft of new powers for the Scottish Parliament, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has signed a new devolution agreement with Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Deputy Prime Minister has signed an agreement with Sheffield City Council, and the Cabinet Committee on Devolved Powers has reported on options for change in Westminster.

Rather than the stronger executive powers and assembly scrutiny model that is used in London, most of the deals have agreed that the new metro mayors have to consult the combined authority cabinet on their strategies.

The committee has the power to suspend decisions put forward by the metro mayor and combined authority cabinet.

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

Burnham's decision to stand for the new post was seen by many as a signal that for ambitious Labour politicians, the place of power may no longer be in Westminster but rather the combined authorities — with all the powers they carry.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is also to be awarded new powers relating to business growth, local skills and health and social care.

The present Government's scheme for a northern powerhouse to be directed by a DEEM covering combined local authorities is promoted by the Treasury — to the amazement of many because in the past it has resisted decentralisation of powers, fiscal discretion and resources to elected local authorities, as George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted in his speech earlier this month.

But executive powers stay with the mayor, and while the mayor and «cabinet» have some accountability to a single elected council, in combined authorities they account to a group of leaders of the component authorities.

On 3 November, Greater Manchester's 10 metropolitan councils and the government reached a «trailblazing agreement» to devolve powers to a combined city region authority, shortly to be headed by an elected mayor.

The leaders of the 10 (mainly Labour) councils that comprise the Greater Manchester combined authority met on Friday to study plans for new council powers negotiated with the chancellor, George Osborne.

Combined efforts of NYSERDA, New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) in 2012 led to the successful installation of more than 58 megawatts (MW) of PV in the State, nearly doubling the amount of customer - sited PV installed in 2011.

All this seems to suggest that the «goodwill» of central government, combined local authorities and businesses alone will not be sufficient to put real power into the North if the people are not with them.

In the wake of chancellor George Osborne's announcement this week of a ground - breaking set of devolved powers for Greater Manchester, LGC interviewed political leaders at half of the 10 councils that make up the city region's combined authority about the negotiations leading up to the deal and its implications for local government.

Bury MBC leader Mike Connolly (Lab) said: «What makes it work for me is [that] the mayor will have to work with the combined authority because it does have the veto and power to amend the mayor's plans.»

Further powers and resources may be devolved to the Mayor and the Combined Authority if agreement can be reached in the future.

The Mayor will be a member, and chair, of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority -LRB-...) and will have certain public transport powers relating to how buses may operate in the future.

Policing - This is currently overseen by Police and Crime Commissioners, but if they were scrapped, power could be handed to combined authorities or mayors - although there could be a problem matching up authority and police boundaries.

Second, disagreements between members of the combined authority (made up of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield)-- and with the Government — mean that the public consultation needed to unlock the powers and resources on offer as part of the city region's devolution deal has not yet taken place.

The Sheffield city region review into the case for establishing their combined authority explicitly stated, for instance, that the major rationale was to give legal effect to existing informal collaboration, enabling local authority leaders «to obtain more devolved powers from government and additional funding streams».

The mayor would be elected by voters in the metropolitan boroughs of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, and act as chair of the combined authority as well exercise additional powers and functions devolved from central government relating to transport and housing and planning.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is a statutory partnership between local authorities, working alongside the LEP for the conurbation and with additional powers over transport.

Combined with the considerable budgetary powers handed to him by two of his predecessors (budget - planning supremacy courtesy of George Pataki, and the ability to ram it down the Legislature's throat after the April 1 deadline courtesy David Paterson), the governor's first term has brought a significant consolidation of his authority.

The powers on offer to combined authorities with an elected mayor will cover transport, housing, planning, policing and public health.

Suh's works take items such as uniforms and army dogtags that identify individuals as part of a specific group, and while challenging the authorities that confine individuals within particular frameworks, develops these items into installations that are metaphors for the enormous power generated when the small, individual power of nameless people is combined.

-- «Combined Heat and Power Microgrids for New York City» (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority presentation, June 2012)

While a Member State may act as a shareholder in addition to exercising it powers as a public authority, it must not combine its role as a State wielding public power with that of a shareholder.

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