LABOUR in Wales will decide how a £547 million growth fund is to be distributed – while the UK Government will decide how ...
Jo Stevens is the most "anti-devolution" Labour Welsh secretary in half a century, according to a former Welsh government minister. Labour Member of the Senedd (MS) Lee Waters told a podcast that ...
The UK Government is seeking to devolve rail powers to mayoral regions in England while steadfastly rejecting calls for rail infrastructure to be devolved to Wales. Following the English Devolution ...
Devolution will be “default in our constitution” rather than “at the whim of a minister in Whitehall”, Angela Rayner said as she launched plans to overhaul local government. Under the reforms ...
That’s a hammer blow to plans to deliver growth and to get power out of Whitehall and back into local communities.
In counties where the shape of new unitaries is undecided, officers hesitate to commit to plans and housing delivery risks falling behind, writes Peter Canavan.
The LGA has warned that billions of pounds worth of economic growth are at risk, as government fails to follow through with devolution deals. The government’s commitment to handing over more powers to ...
Kent County Council (KCC) has voted to ask the government to accept them onto the fast track devolution programme, which will see the scrapping of local councils, as well as Kent County Council and ...