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...Warrington’s precarious finances drove the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to commission an external review in 2023, which it has not released to the public....
...Such a move would require the force to ask home secretary Suella Braverman to ban the march because of a risk of a serious public disorder threat that could not be countered by other measures....
...At another committee hearing last week, transport secretary Mark Harper said the “most obvious comparison” for the public-private model the government planned at Euston was the regeneration of Battersea...
...He adds that he does not believe there is any example of a “high-handed or misapplied approach towards funding that we haven’t had some form of course correction to address”....
...Both the agency and the levelling up department had carried out only “limited formal evaluation” of the value for money or effectiveness of the Whitehall programmes delivered by Homes England, the review...
...David Neal, who heads one of several independent watchdog organisations that monitor and report on the performance of government departments, had been due to step down next month....
...environmental clean-ups,” said Deb Haaland, interior secretary....
...But Street, the former boss of the John Lewis department store chain, believes this is the wrong approach....
...They added that the transport secretary had “clearly set out the complexity of the procurement process”....
...The UK communities secretary Michael Gove has updated the government’s 2011 definition of extremism with a new set of guidelines....
...However, Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has placed a temporary export bar on the carving and given the V&A until June 14 to raise £2mn so it can match the price paid by the American institution...
...The state department did not respond to request for comment....
...A further £100mn will be made available to boost the core spending power of all councils, the department said....
...US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters that as US LNG exports surged it was “critical” for her department to “remain a responsible actor” as it looked at whether the additional volumes were...
...An official from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: “The housing secretary has already told councils that they need to step up, and we are providing a lot of support to help them...
...BCC head of trade policy William Bain added that many businesses were still not fully aware of the size and scope of the coming changes and urged Defra to provide “full clarity” to businesses on the April...
...The UK business secretary told the BBC on Sunday that the governance of the state-owned business under Henry Staunton “just wasn’t working” and this required a change of leadership on the board....
...Such restraint could strengthen the hand of self-proclaimed reformers in Starmer’s team such as the highly rated shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, who has already pointedly declared that the NHS is...
...Levelling up secretary Michael Gove appointed officials to look at its governance and examine decisions that led to a series of deals that have proved lucrative for the developers....
...Ahead of the third round, Gove’s department promised to put a simpler process in place....
...But advice from the government’s legal department to ministers said there was a significant risk of the European Court of Human Rights blocking flights....
...The survey, released on Wednesday, was timed to coincide with levelling up secretary Michael Gove’s appearance before a cross-party committee of MPs to answer questions on financial distress in local authorities...
...However Michael Gove, the Levelling Up secretary who is in charge of delivering the strategy, told MPs in January that the OBR analysis missed the real point of the plan, which was to deliver an industrial...
...Nicole Sykes, director of policy and communications at the consultancy ProBono Economics, said the culture department, the Office for Investment and the sector regulator the Charity Commission have begun...
...Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat and foreign minister, will travel to the US from Thursday to Saturday to meet secretary of state Antony Blinken, the state department said on Monday evening....
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