Sentences with phrase «of council house»

Policy options raised by Findlay included increasing the minimum wage, reintroduction of council house building, reduction in the use of the private sector in NHS Scotland, and allowing councils to set their own taxes to help reverse job losses within local government.

But the vast majority, such as Shore's housing blueprint - rejected by the Tories in favour of council house sales - would never be heard of again.

«The constituency was, for many years up until Thatcher's promise of council house sales, a marginal Tory - Labour constituency,» he explains.

Housing associations have added to the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ending security of council house tenure?

And Graham Brady has declared that the challenge for his colleagues is «to come up with solutions that are as appealing, and encapsulate our principles as perfectly, as the sale of council houses back in the 1980s».

None of them will do anything to tackle the massive shortage of council houses, indeed some may well make it worse, and none will address the rising cost of private rent.

The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Mr. Iain Wright): The current review of council housing finance is a joint review between my Department and the Treasury.

Private renting fell steadily in the UK during most of the 20th century — in inverse proportion to the rise of council housing — and settled at around eight per cent.

Next year's reform of council housing finance means that local authorities could start building again, though more work is needed to get the most from this.

Last year a new street of council houses in the borough was named Martin Kinggett Gardens after Rifleman Kinggett, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.

The constituency covers a largely residential area immediately north of Derby city centre, including some of the city's most affluent suburbs, as well as some of its council housing, though much of this is former council housing in private ownership.

He spoke of lifting the borrowing cap that constrains local authorities and prevents them from building a new generation of council housing.

Complaints of Council houses left empty and boarded up are corroborated by figures from the Empty Homes Agency which state that there are 1,072 empty Council homes in Liverpool.

With the selling off of council houses making it even more difficult for families to find suitable accommodation, Mr Draper insisted that the Prime Minister should give up his residence at the publicly owned Chequers — one of at least three the Prime Minister enjoys, and have it converted into affordable flats for ordinary families.

In Britain, Labour and Conservative governments built millions of council houses for all who needed them.

This week, Tory 1922 chairman Graham Brady declared that the challenge for his colleagues was «to come up with solutions that are as appealing, and encapsulate our principles as perfectly, as the sale of council houses back in the 1980s».

In Kensington and Chelsea it found that 97 % of the council housing stock could be sold when it becomes vacant, in Cambridge nearly half,, and nearly a fifth of that in York.

New Labour continued the process, cutting the number of Council houses built to a mere 200 - 300 a year in the last decade, despite the number of households on the local authority waiting lists topping 1.8 million.

His detailed renditions of council houses and — to quote a title — Landscape with Dog Shit Bin may not be socially engaging per se, but they are certainly politically aware.

He fraudulently claims to be a Nobel laureate; he pretends to sit in the House of Lords (he doesn't, having failed to secure a single vote in 2007); he refrains, at best, from correcting propagandists like Glenn Beck when they call him a «former scientific advisor» to Margaret Thatcher (in fact, he advised her on the transfer of council houses into private ownership).

Lead counsel for 11,000 + Claimants in negligence claim against solicitors acting for purchasers of council houses.

A large percentage of council housing stock has been sold under the right to buy scheme, particularly in high value areas like Kensington and Chelsea, leaving the council short on housing stock with long waiting lists for council housing.

The employee was a street scene operative who, in the course of handling a bin bag full of rubbish while removing rubbish and debris left by tenants of council houses, suffered a serious cut to his finger.

In the Lords (2.30 pm) question time ranges across the right of return of Palestinian refugees, Brexit negotiations and increasing the supply of council housing stock.

Not exact matches

To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.

The council, formed by the White House Office of American Innovation (which is in turn helmed by White House Senior Adviser and Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner), has been tasked with modernizing government technology while also tackling the increasingly pertinent issue of cybersecurity.

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the White House earlier this month, where he discussed Chinese tariffs and U.S. tax reform, according to Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council.

Ned Price, spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, denied that US policy on Syria was a part of the Iran nuclear talks.

Pilots in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Sweden and Portugal, as well as Italy, have formed local labor councils in the past few weeks in order to press for collective bargaining outside of Ryanair's in - house employee representative committees.

In December, Trump selected Peter Navarro, author of «Death by China: Confronting the Dragon,» to head the National Trade Council, a new White House office.

His team has also met with Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner, White House Counsel Don McGahn, former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, former spokesman Sean Spicer and National Security Council chief of staff Keith Kellogg, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Women typically own smaller businesses, according to a 2010 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration for the White House Council on Women and Girls.

One of the U.K.'s top private banking houses, Coutts works with the British Fashion Council in supporting the Fashion Forward program for emerging designers.

He publicly criticized Trump's protectionist moves in the White House just days before being tapped to succeed Gary Cohn as the director of the National Economic Council.

Ritchie Torres, who chairs a city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New York.

Seattle's City Council on Friday released new draft legislation that would tax large employers in order to raise $ 75 million next year to counter the effects of rising rents and house prices.

At a meeting of the Brisbane City Council on August 8, local officials heard from residents and housing advocates in a meeting to decide the proposal's fate.

Amazon has suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle, pending the outcome of a City Council vote on a new tax on large employers that would fund programs aimed at providing affordable housing and helping the homeless.

A White House National Security Council spokesman said «While we have no comment on individual actions, protecting critical infrastructure, including the supply chains associated with such infrastructure, is a critical part of protecting Americas national security and public safety.»

Jim Cramer sat down with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty to get her take on the state of work and Monday's White House technology council meeting.

The theme of the paper, co-authored by Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross and White House National Trade Council head Peter Navarro, an economist and University of California at Irvine business professor, is shifting the ownership and operation of public works to the private sector.

In Pittsburgh, for example, the city council just assembled a housing task force this year to investigate the housing problem and issued a slate of recommendations in May, one that includes many of the strategies listed in the Furman Center report.

«Both leaders condemned North Korea's September 9 nuclear test and resolved to strengthen coordination in achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, including by invigorating cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law enforcement channels on North Korea,» a White House statement said.

Don Graves, Executive Director of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness at the White House.

Graves is currently serving as executive director of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness at the White House, where he advises Obama on how to generate jobs.

She was invited to the White House during President Obama's administration to speak about financial literacy and to moderate a public meeting of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability at the U.S. Treasury Department.

Seven of the White House councils» 37 members resigned this week, led by Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier's exit on Monday from the manufacturing council.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected to address the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee during the annual oversight hearing of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.