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Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Commenting on Local Government Minister John Healey’s announcement that proposals to close 46 local Fire Control Centres to replace them with 8 regional ones are running behind schedule, Liberal Democrat Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, Julia Goldsworthy said: “This supposed cost-cutting measure is behind schedule and the budget is rising fast.” Julia Goldsworthy [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Local councils were yesterday refused more money to help with the economic downturn and warned that council taxes could be capped to stop them passing on higher costs. In another display of new financial stringency from the government, the Treasury minister, John Healey, told councils they would receive no more than the funding settlement already struck. He said they were not doing enough to make...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
John Healey accuses town halls of not making use of legal power that could stave off worst effects of downturn
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
The Local Government Chronicle has published its annual list of the 50 most influential people in local government. The Labour names in the list are as follows - interesting that 2 of the 8 Labour Councillors or Mayors in the list are from my own borough of Hackney: 1) John Healey MP, Local Govt Minister 4) Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, DCLG Secretary of State 6) Cllr Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
U.K. Floods Recovery Minister John Healey has announced that 25 councils helping over 1,500 flood-hit families pay their council tax bills will share over £1.2million Government funding. While many of these families affected by last summer’s floods are now back home, this step - in recognition of special circumstances - will help councils giving council [...]
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Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
The Leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, Councillor Andrew De Freitas and Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell will meet with a Government minister on Monday – seeking assurances that port operators won’t face a £20-million business rate bill. John Healey, Minister for Communities and Local Government in Westminster, will hear representations as the authority vows not [...]
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NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
[qi:004] Brand Asset Digital launched its P2P advertising platform P2Pwords today, promising to bring pay-per-click advertising to file-sharing networks like Limewire, Gnutella and Emule. The NY-based company received a largely positive review from John Healey over at The LA Times Bitplayer blog, who thinks that “the opportunity presented by P2Pwords is so large, it may [...]
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Downing Street Says (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Put that John Healey would be meeting with the Local Government Association, and asked if we were expected anything concrete to come out of the meeting, the PMS replied that as Hazel Blears had already said, The Department of Communities and Local Government had already taken action to help support Local Authorities in the form of a new joint rapid response unit, which had been set up and was already...
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Local government minister John Healey has blurted out the ideology of our rulers. Councils, he says: are in a different position from individual savers. They are intelligent, they’re well-informed investors… This is not just false. It is the precise reversal of the truth. The fact is that it is individual savers, on average, who are intelligent and well-informed, [...]
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Whe interviewed on the possible risk to council deposits held in Icelandic banks, John Healey, the Local Government Minister, cautioned that before taking any action the government would first establish the full extent of the problem. He said: “we’ve heard today from councils that this isn’t money that’s lost it’s money that’s at risk. “The first thing to [...]
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Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Local Government minister John Healey has now confirmed that, as expected, the county elections planned for May 7 will be put back to June 4 to be combined with the European elections. There have been some people who have got excited about this, as it is suggested that the government may be doing it for party-political reasons. Well, it would hardly be the first time, but I'm relatively relaxed about...
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Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Local government minister John Healey MP announced today in the House of Commons that local council elections in 2009 will take place on the same day as the European Parliamentary elections - Thursday 4 June. The political challenge for the Labour Party is to turn it into a referendum on how well Labour in government has been managing the financial crisis working in partnership with our European Union...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Paul Waugh has just blogged about the government's decision, as announced by local government minister John Healey, to combine next year's European and County Council elections on June 4th, rather than having two separate dates. Paul writes... Although Mr Healey talks manfully about the need to boost turnout and cut costs, I'm told the real reason is to avoid two potentially huge nationwide defeats...
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Ok, as per yesterday's snippet, I was over the border in Nantwich seeing what was happening at Mill House - one of Wulvern Housing's new developments. Local government minister John Healey ( red tie, obviously ) was in town and, according to the blurb, was here to meet " the team driving a revolution in local government in Cheshire, which will aim to deliver greater community engagement and more visible...
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MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The public should have greater access to information on how efficiently their council is being run, according to ministers. Local Government Minister John Healey said he wanted “ensure that local people will be able to see for themselves how efficiently their council is run, and to be able to challenge their council if it is under-performing."
