23 July 2010 | Paul Gershlick
The Information Commissioner’s Office – the UK’s information regulator – is set to get tough with public bodies that fail to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Act gives people...
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23 July 2010 | Paul Gershlick
About 30 public sector staff have been sacked in the last year for inappropriately snooping on personal data that had come from the Department for Work and Pensions’ Customer Information System. The...
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16 July 2010 | David Marsden
In an attempt to reduce the obstacles and delays that can hinder development projects, the Government set up the Penfold Review in December 2009 to look at streamlining the processes by which developers...
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16 July 2010 | David Marsden
I recently wrote about the Government’s decision this month to officially scrap Regional Strategies and their centrally-imposed home building targets – and the problems that this change would initially...
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8 July 2010 | David Marsden
The Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has scrapped Regional Strategies and their centrally-imposed building targets – fulfilling a commitment which the Government made in its Coalition Agreement on...
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6 July 2010 | Sarah Wilkins
You are not alone if you are not sure of the differences between shared equity and shared ownership.
So what is shared equity? You purchase a property and own 100% of it, but you obtain a mortgage...
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25 June 2010 | Paul Gershlick
Martha Lane Fox, one of the co-founders of lastminute.com, has been appointed by the new Government as its UK Digital Champion. Her role will include getting more people online, advising the Government...
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14 June 2010 | Paul Gershlick
The new Government has announced that it plans to make all Government contracts open to the public. New IT contracts will be published within the next few weeks, as will tenders for procurement over £10,000....
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10 June 2010 | David Marsden
The Government has given local councils in England more powers to stop developers building homes on gardens (otherwise known as ‘garden-grabbing’).
In its coalition agreement, published on 20 May,...
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