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A new package of measures to ensure consumers receive improved information in the home buying and selling process was announced today by Housing Minister Margaret Beckett.
The Government today published wide-ranging legislation that will give local people new rights to shape local services and give greater responsibility to local authorities to promote economic development.
Communities Minister Baroness Andrews has today called on community leaders from across the country to look to the future and build on the success of the New Deal for Communities programme over the past decade.
The Government today introduced and published in Parliament a Bill which will provide new scope for councils and businesses to work together to invest in the long-term economic prosperity of their local communities.
Communities and Local Government published today the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) Operational Statistics bulletin, which covers operational statistics for the period 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008.
Floods Recovery Minister John Healey today said that with around 100 families returning home each week over 19 out of every 20 households displaced by last summer's floods will be back in their homes for Christmas.
The Government today announced a new scheme to help people who suffer a temporary loss of income stay in their home.
New citizenship lessons challenging the notion that there is any conflict between being a good Muslim and a good citizen are starting to be taught in after school madrassahs or mosque supplementary schools across the country.
Top business men, journalists, servicemen, a fire-fighter, lawyers and media experts amongst others will be unveiled in the first-ever national role model programme for Black boys and young Black men, by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today.
The drive to deliver much needed affordable homes and safeguard higher housing standards for eight million social housing tenants took a massive step forward today.
The Department for Communities and Local Government last night scooped two awards at the third annual civil service awards.
Councils should be given greater responsibility for coordinating efforts to tackle rising unemployment in their local areas, an independent review has proposed.
The UK's ability to compete in a tough global economy and deliver new green infrastructure vital for reducing our carbon emissions was given a major boost today with the Royal Assent of the Planning Bill.
Communities Minister Baroness Andrews has today confirmed that councils in England are to receive £1.66bn Supporting People Programme Grant funding - as an unringfenced named grant.
Local Government Minister John Healey today confirmed a 4.2 per cent funding increase for English councils next year.
The Thames Gateway is in a strong position to weather the current economic storm and grow in the long term, Thames Gateway Minister Margaret Beckett announced in a major speech today.
The national case for the new linked network of control centres for the Fire and Rescue Service was today laid out by the Government.
Furniture is safer and smoke alarms are now in 80 per cent of homes - these are just some of the reasons for the halving of the numbers of accidental fire deaths in peoples homes.
The Government today announced new powers to tackle the local impacts of the credit crunch.
Local Government Minister John Healey today welcomed the Chancellor's announcement in yesterday's Pre Budget Report to give businesses more time to pay certain backdated business rates bills.
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