The UK has had devolved governments since the late 1990s, which work alongside the Westminster Parliament. Different types of devolution are in place across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as ...

Almost 15 years since the 2010 Constitution was promulgated, 12 years after the first post-constitution election that birthed our current system of devolved government and eight mega conferences later ...

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

For almost a year, LocalismWatch has been trying to make sense of the government’s stated desire to give local communities a greater say in local issues. Power centralised in Whitehall has ...

The spirit of devolution and localism, and delivering a generational shift in power to local people, is at the heart of the new legislation, writes the minister of state for local government and ...

CONFUSION over who is responsible for road maintenance sparked a heated debate at a devolution meeting, with Bulawayo residents, councillors, and government officials clashing over whether ...

It was the question that was on nobody’s lips when Wes Streeting addressed yesterday’s Institute for Government’s annual conference: what would devolution in England look like if he was somehow ...

We must not waste this opportunity to transform local government. Local government in England is a closely knit patchwork. In every corner of the country, parish and town councils, principal ...

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