Cllr Sally Longford has  written to the Government regarding their decision not to extend legislation that allows local authorities to hold meetings remotely, causing concern for council staff and councillors who have either not been vaccinated or are clinically vulnerable; In a letter on March 25, Regional Growth and Local Government Minister Luke Hall MP…

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Today Nottingham Labour will agree a package of budget proposals to establish a sustainable financial footing amid the Covid crisis. This budget comes during an extremely difficult time for the people of Nottingham, the nation as a whole and the council. The impacts of Covid have been devastating. The health effects coupled with the economic…

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The Chancellor has the opportunity in his budget to tackle some of the long standing economic and social issues that are holding back towns and cities across the Midlands and the North. He and his Party has spoken much of levelling up, but over the past decade of successive Conservative Governments, inequality across the country…

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One of the actions of Nottingham City Council’s Carbon Neutral Action Plan is to campaign for divestment and move the Nottinghamshire Local Government Pension Scheme away from fossil fuels investments. This is why ahead of their Annual General Meeting tomorrow I submitted a question on behalf of City members of the scheme, and urged the…

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Today Nottingham City Council is launching a consultation on its budget for 2021/22 and it comes at an extremely difficult time for the people of Nottingham, the nation as a whole and the council. The impact of Covid has been and continues to be devastating in many ways. The health effects of the pandemic coupled with…

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Today Nottingham Labour councillors call on the Government to  retain the £20 a week increase to Universal Credit made at the beginning of the pandemic and extend the payment to claimants of legacy benefits who are currently excluded from the additional support. There are roughly 35,000 people on Universal Credit in Nottingham. These are people…

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Dear Prime Minister, I am writing ahead of the Government’s anticipated announcement on Thursday, allocating local areas to the new tier system, to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in England. It is clear that strong measures will continue to be needed once we come out of the current national lockdown restrictions on 2 December, to…

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Dear Chancellor, I’m writing to you in anticipation of your Spending Review on 25th November to highlight the chronic underfunding of local services and the potentially devastating funding gap caused by the Covid pandemic. The combination of a decade of Government austerity and the costs of Covid means that Councils across the country now face…

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In March we announced plans to build new homes on unused garage sites to provide much needed affordable places to live for people in Nottingham to live, bring land back into proper use and help regenerate the wider area. I am proud that this week we confirmed that 36 new council apartments will be built…

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Government announcements made on business support during the pandemic have a real impact on the ground which is why it is essential that there is consistency, time to plan and timely, adequate financial support. The Government approach has often fallen short of this with a number of issues for local businesses that we have raised…

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