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The Balance of Power
Incorporating HC 813-i-iv, session 2007-08
The Balance of Power
The balance of power between central and local government matters because it affects the responsibility and accountability for delivery of services and improvements to local people and communities. Democracy is strengthened where local people understand what local government is responsible for in terms of both policy and resources, where they can hold to account local government for its performance, and where, crucially, they believe that local government can make a real difference. Local authorities should have the freedom to shape the development of their communities and the scope to unlock the full potential of local innovation. Yet the predominant trend, particularly since the second wor...
HC 821 - The Work Of The Communitites And Local Government Committee Since 2010
The purpose of the report is to distil experience from this parliament and to assist the new committee in the next parliament. It considers how the Committee approached its work, the way it has used research and how this might be strengthened, and its own assessment of performance against the core tasks set by the Liaison Committee. It then suggests some matters the new committee might consider examining in the next Parliament. These include both 'unfinished business', topics the Committee looked at over the Parliament to which the successors might wish to return, and new developments, which the Committee considers will emerge as major issues over the next five years.
Communities and Local Government's departmental annual report 2009, and the performance of the Department in 2008-09
Incorporating HC 1038-i-ii, session 2008-09. The DCLG departmental annual report 2009 was published as Cm. 7598 (ISBN 9780101759823)
Local Government Resource Review
Local Government Resource Review : Oral evidence, 12 September 2011, Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State, Robert Neill MP, Parliamentary under- Secretary of State, and Simon Ridley, Director, Local Government Finance, Department for Communities and
Introductory Hearing with the New Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government
Introductory hearing with the new Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government : Oral evidence Tuesday 10 July 2007
Devolution in England
With the Government handing greater economic freedom to Scotland and Wales, the Communities and Local Government Committee urges Ministers and general election manifesto writers to show the same enthusiasm for devolution elsewhere in the UK - by allowing local communities in England to take greater control over how money is raised and spent in their areas. The Committee calls for the transfer of a range of tax raising powers to local authorities, including business rates, stamp duty, council tax and other smaller taxes and charges, along with greater flexibility to borrow for investment. Releasing groups of authorities in England - centred on large city and county regions - from the fiscal g...
HC 456 - Local Government Funding: Assurance to Parliament
The Department for Communities and Local Government has increased flexibility for local government spending. Local authorities are now more able to use government funding according to local priorities. However, the Department cannot be sure that the local accountability system is ensuring that local authorities are achieving value for money with their funding. There is a particular gap in assurance for £2.8 billion of 'targeted' grants, where departments expect local authorities to spend funding on a specific activity, but do not then monitor whether they do. This gap includes grants targeted at local welfare provision and transport improvement schemes. Additionally, the Department is placi...
HC 262 - Community Rights
The Government's policy of empowering people through Community Rights to save local assets from closure, build community housing, take over local authority services and bring public land back into use has in its first two years had mixed results. The Rights - to Bid, to Build, to Challenge and to Reclaim Land - have generated some successes, with a small number of community groups being able, for example, to use the Community Right to Bid to stop valued local assets such as the local pub being sold for redevelopment. But limitations have also been exposed. The Community Right to Build is too complicated; the Community Right to Challenge, which triggers a tendering exercise to run a local ser...
