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...And I can announce that this week the government has reached agreement on a £160mn deal with Hitachi to purchase the Wylfa site in Ynys Môn and the Oldbury site in South Gloucestershire....
...Or is the Conservative party’s regional penalty gonna come back with a vengeance?...
...“Fixing this is about money and power: money for social infrastructure and power for local places,” he added....
...Last month, public entities ranging from local councils to healthcare trusts and universities were invited to join an accelerated public-sector procurement process called “Everything Net Zero”....
...Move to devolution and local/regional initiatives. Francis Breedon: As Ireland has shown, openness to trade and investment has the best record for stimulating growth....
...We want low taxes and sound money. But sound money has to come first because inflation eats away at the pound in people’s pockets even more insidiously than taxes....
...The powerful coal industry retains strong support from the government and the Murdoch-owned press is often hostile to environmental reforms but pressure is building on local pension funds and asset managers...
...The Nikkei 225 has reached levels not seen for almost three decades, with the activity driven by local investors....
...and regional needs and be accountable to local communities....
...“We need not only higher exports and old-age pensions, but more open-air cafés, brighter and gayer streets at night, later closing hours for public houses, more local repertory theatres . . . better designs...
...The Destiny Mall in Syracuse, New York, is one of the largest regional shopping centres in America....
...Similarly, in one Latin American country where Amundi was talking about green investments with local pension funds, the conversation has stalled — until the country’s central bank signalled support for sustainable...
...In mid-March, the European Central Bank made the decision to purchase an extra €750bn of bonds and in April the EU approved a €540bn package of emergency assistance....
...Land cannot be moved to evade taxation and its price depends as much on the ability of people to pay for it, ie on the health of the economy, local planning policy and regional investment, as in the actions...
...Nick Day, regional officer for GMB, said members wanted greater clarity about where the rest of Kent County Council’s pension fund is invested....
...However, in the mid-2010s — possibly provoked by China’s covert military expansion into the South China Sea and its expansive Belt and Road Initiative, as well as an ambitious plan to move up the value chain...
...More money for our NHS, more generous Sick Pay, faster access to benefits if you’re self-employed, extra local support for the most vulnerable....
...He is also reducing the minimum purchase from £100 to £25....
...There have been significant non-Brexit headwinds to household spending in recent years (pension contributions, benefit freeze, council tax, distortions from energy price cap)....
...As an executive at Allianz, Mr Achleitner oversaw the €24bn purchase of Germany’s Dresdner Bank in 2001....
...Local government has made a significant contribution to repairing the public finances and this Budget ensures local councils have more resources to deliver high quality public services....
...to get for their money....
...Council tax: Local authorities will be able to increase the council tax premium to 100 per cent if a home has been empty for two years or more, unless it is an annexe to a property or the owner is a member...
...at a local shop....
...But government grant funding for local services delivered by local councils will be cut by £1.3bn (36 per cent) in 2019/20, which will directly impact the less well off....
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