VE Day: Council duties under the Armed Forces Covenant
As we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Geoff Wild, Legal & Governance Consultant, looks at the duties of councils under the Armed Forces Covenant.
Council chiefs remember Queen Elizabeth II
09/09/2022 Council leaders have offered their condolences to the Royal Family in response to the Queen’s death and remember her ‘high regard for local government’. |
Government ‘missed a trick’ to support local areas
12/05/2022 Kingston Council's leader has criticised the Government for not offering more in the Queen’s Speech that might help councils support families and businesses. |
Queen's Speech: Business rates set for overhaul
10/05/2022 It has been confirmed a ‘Non-Domestic Rating Bill’ will form part of the agenda during the next Parliamentary session. |
Queen's Speech: Government plans to boost tenants rights
10/05/2022 Two separate housing bills in the Queen’s Speech set out the Government plans to tackle tenants rights improve the private rented sector. |
Queen's Speech: New measures to raise education standards
10/05/2022 Local authorities will have a new duty to provide support to home-schooling families under new measures to reform education. |
Queen’s Speech: Mental health laws to be overhauled
10/05/2022 Government will reform mental health laws to make it harder to detain people and to stop the disproportionate use of the laws against BAME communities. |
Queen's speech: Government brings back measures to stop protestors 'locking on'
10/05/2022 Boris Johnson’s government will bring back measures thrown out by the House of Lords in January to stop protesters ‘locking on’ to infrastructure. |
Queen's Speech: Levelling up bill unveiled for planning reform
10/05/2022 The Queen’s Speech has confirmed a levelling up Bill will include legislation on planning and regeneration reform. |
Queen's Speech: Plans unveiled to 'drive growth'
10/05/2022 The Government has unveiled a Queen’s Speech to boost the economy in a bid to fight the cost of living crisis. |
New Bill to put beauty at the heart of planning, says Gove
08/05/2022 The Queen’s Speech is set to include a new bill to revamp planning and kick start housebuilding, levelling up secretary Michael Gove has revealed. |
Shapps confirms e-scooter legalisation in Queen’s Speech
28/04/2022 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed he will make an announcement about the legalisation surrounding e-scooters in next month’s Queen’s Speech. |
Queen’s Speech: New law to ‘modernise’ planning system
11/05/2021 The Government has pledged to push ahead with reforms to the planning system in order to meet house-building targets. |
Queen's Speech: No funding pledge on social care reform
11/05/2021 The Queen’s Speech fell short of including a Social Care Bill and there was no pledge on funding. |
Queen's Speech: Controversial voter ID plans roll forward
11/05/2021 Voter ID is expected to be introduced by May 2023 after the Government pledged to introduce legislation to ‘ensure the integrity of elections’. |
Over 1.1 million homes with planning permission waiting to be built, LGA finds
10/05/2021 Council chiefs are calling for more powers to incentivise developers to build more quickly as new figures reveal over a million homes are waiting to be built. |
Letter urges '1948 moment' for adult social care
28/04/2021 The Prime Minister has been urged to give adult social care a '1948 moment' ahead of the Queen's Speech next month. |
'Ambitious programme of domestic reform' promised in Queen's Speech
19/12/2019 The second Queen’s Speech in almost as many months has promised an ‘ambitious programme of domestic reform’. |
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Queen's Speech 19: Brexit, health and devo at the heart of Government plans
14/10/2019 Brexit, the NHS and devolution are at the heart of the next round of Government legislation as outlined in the first Queen’s Speech today. |
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Queen's Speech 19: Councils promised new powers to tackle pollution
14/10/2019 The Queen’s Speech promised an Environment Bill which will establish a ‘world-leading’ independent regulator, the Office for Environmental Protection, and hand some new powers to councils. |
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Queen's Speech 19: Devolution White Paper to set out 'structural reform'
14/10/2019 An English devolution White Paper is planned by the Government, it has been confirmed in the Queen’s Speech. |
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Plans for voter ID bill branded 'dangerous and undemocratic'
13/10/2019 Plans to introduce voter ID across the whole country have been branded ‘dangerous, misguided and undemocratic’ by the Electoral Reform Society (ERS). |
