One option would be to impose a lower cap, or even a freeze, on council tax rises for councils who haven’t published at least draft accounts. After all, should they be asking for yet more cash from hard-pressed households when they won’t even say how they’re spending it?
There is no denying that working practices have changed. But Town Hall bosses should not indulge in foolish experiments at the expense of Council Taxpayers.
The way to motivate staff is to treat each of them as an individual, with flexibile conditions and a pay offer to reward success and hard work.
Making Cambridge a global science city needs to be a cross-governmental mission, rather than one left just to the housing department
A local source described him as the “only genuinely local” choice from the final three.
When key performance data finally landed, the results were clear: relative to before the pandemic, most metrics got worse. Spending on agency staff, a key justification for the trial, went up, not down as was intended.
I suspect that in creative industries, a four day week could have little impact on productivity. But it is simply doesn’t apply to process-driven jobs, such as housing benefit claims or planning applications,
Voters across the political spectrum are united in their wish to see more done here.
Council tax and stamp duty are confusing, unpopular, unequal and unfair – so it’s time to replace them.
Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.
The Council and local charities work together to defeat loneliness and social isolation
Boris Johnson’s former Head of Policy, the former Co-Chair of Women for Britain, and a geneticist who manages the Conservative Policy Forum make the final.
When asked for it, the three MPs presented none. The reason is simple: this supposedly sinister entryist army does not exist.
No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.
We need our own local champions campaigning on local issues. As their campaign strategy says: you win where you work.