The leaders of two Labour controlled councils have called for May's local elections to be scrapped because of Lancashire ...

New combined local authorities will get wide-ranging new powers under the Government’s devolution bill, Angela Rayner has said, as she proclaimed a “new era” for Britain. Powers including transport, ...

Elections for Suffolk County Council are due in May and council leader Matthew Hicks said "decisions on the timing of local ...

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 ...

The East Midlands CCA mayor is pushing for greater devolution powers in a bid to unlock investment and put the authority on a ...

Cheshire and Warrington’s devolution agreement will see the area receive at least £650 million of funding over the next 30 years.

Lancashire could be on the path to getting an elected mayor – if the government can persuade the county’s leaders that the ...

Housing secretary Angela Rayner said the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill would "bring decision-making to a local level".

Big changes are on the way to how one of England's most populous counties is run. In a couple of years' time, Essex is likely to have a directly-elected mayor overseeing a population of nearly 2 ...

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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has signed Executive Order No. 103, extending until 2028 the transition period for the full devolution of certain executive branch functions to local government units ...