Reform plan sets CLG objectives
The Communities and Local Government department has been charged with putting local authorities and communities in charge of economic growth and regeneration.
A draft ‘political reform structural reform plan’ published by the government yesterday sets out some of the objectives the CLG is expected to meet.
These include developing options to give neighbourhoods and local authorities more power, by October 2010, and giving residents the right to instigate referendums and veto council tax increases, by November 2011.
Structural reform plans outline the objectives departments must meet to achieve the government’s overall aims, as set out in its coalition agreement. They replace the previous government’s system of targets.
The draft plan on political reform sets out a timescale for delivering change in the areas of parliamentary democracy, decentralisation and civil liberties.
The CLG is responsible for a range of objectives around devolution and localism, and has been set a ‘milestone’ of the Localism Bill being passed. The bill is expected to be published in the autumn.
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