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[New] The Local Government Association (LGA) joins a growing list of influential bodies calling on the government to include climate action into its COVID-19 recovery plan, setting out plans that have the potential to help create over one million green jobs by 2050.
[New] By 2025, the largest adopter of private networks will be local government, including networks to support public safety and smart cities.
[New] The UK Local Government Association has calculated that local government already faces a shortfall of £6.5 billion by 2025, having lost £15 billion of government funding over the last ten years.
[New] From 2017 to 2022, Sectors that are predicted to experience the fastest growth in security spending include state / local government (11.9%), telecommunications (11.8%), resource industries (11.3%), banking (10.4%), federal / central government, and other industries.
[New] The Welsh Government has alerted potential suppliers that it wants a system, valued at up to £3 million, to be used by schools and organisations that support young people after they turn 16, and that it would be desirable if it could also be accessed by local authorities and health boards.
[New] Hardship Fund - The government will provide Local Authorities in England with £500 million of new grant funding to support economically vulnerable people and households in their local area.
[New] The UK Government will provide $34.5 million over four years from 2019-20 to support infrastructure investment and services, promote significant national and local infrastructure programs and provide additional resourcing for the implementation of priority projects.
[New] By way of example, Bristol City Council has already proposed a ban on all diesel vehicles within its city centre, and will raise a congestion charge from 2021.
[New] City of Edinburgh Council is the 6th largest landlord in Scotland, providing affordable housing to nearly 20,000 tenants, and has a plan to deliver 20,000 new affordable homes by 2027.
[New] U.S. federal, state, and local government spending on IT for 2019 will increase by 2 percent to 4 percent in many cases.
[New] By 2030, the funding formulas would require the Baltimore state government to spend $2.8 billion more on schools and mandate $1.2 billion from local governments for their county school systems, for a total boost of $4 billion annually.
[New] The development of London's Local Industrial Strategy and skills and employment vision will ensure London is strongly positioned to make the case for new funding and powers in the coming years, regardless of any future changes to government or government policy.
[New] UK local government will face a £25bn funding gap in the coming years as reforms mean grants are being cut to almost zero, a new report has warned.
[New] In 2020-21, Total Managed Expenditure - the total amount of money the UK government spends through departments, local authorities, other public bodies and on social security - will be £878.6 billion, including £783.8 billion current and £94.8 billion capital spending.
[New] The UK Government is working to create opportunities, jobs and long-term growth right across Scotland, and so far have committed more than £1.35 billion in city and growth deals to achieve this.
[New] Later in the year, mobile payments will be accepted forUK citizen payments to local authorities, the police, and NHS organisations, the government hopes.
[New] Plans approved by the City Council of New York are expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions from large buildings by 40% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, about 26% below current levels.
[New] The Local Government Association (LGA) reports that an £8bn funding black hole by 2025 will swallow up popular UK council services without increased support from central government.
[New] The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that children who have made dangerous journeys to the UK are being left in limbo as councils struggle to provide support when faced with unprecedented funding pressures and growing demand.
[New] UK Council leaders warned that an emergency cash injection was needed to close a potential funding gap of up to £1.6bn over the next two years, and the Local Government Association forecast that the current funding deficit could double to £806m next year and could continue to rise.
[New] Some China watchers believe the government could deliver 2 trillion yuan ($295.13 billion) worth of cuts in taxes and fees this year, and allow local governments to issue another 2 trillion yuan in special bonds largely used to fund key projects.
[New] In an increasingly favourable policy environment, housing associations and local authorities have great opportunities to help meet the Government housebuilding target of 300,000 homes per year in England by the mid-2020s.
[New] The government of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has promised policies including rent-free factories and favourable loan deals to boost the local textile industry and create 11,000 jobs this year.

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Last updated: 04 July 2020