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MartinMurphy asked Hazel Blears: "If bloggers were to form a national association, do you think they'd have a role to play in strengthening communities? And would such an association attract government funding and other incentives? ..." Show more »"If bloggers were to form a national association, do you think they'd have a role to play in strengthening communities? And would such an association attract government funding and other incentives? " Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 27 2009 8:31:28 PM
ordinaryboy asked Hazel Blears: "Why has it proved so hard to get the views of ordinary people heard?"
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2 comments | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 27 2009 8:35:32 PM
SiGreen asked Hazel Blears: "In the 80's- at a time of severe recession- we had anti-police riots and the rise of the extreme right. Are you confident that we will see nothing like that this time? why?"
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ordinaryboy is asking Hazel Blears: "will you support a local authority or one of its partners to use exemptions from competition to enable community and local voluntary groups a fair chance of delivering their own public services?"
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 15 2009 5:15:51 PM

ordinaryboy is asking Hazel Blears: "With nearly 400 tender notices being advertised in the last 72hrs can you tell me how many s11 Health and Social Care Act 2002 reviews have been made?
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 16 2009 9:13:48 PM

Sadbog74 is asking Gordon Brown: "The EU model of freedom of labour needs to be reformed. Companies should only be allowed to recruit Non-British labour if there is sufficient evidence of a skills shortage in the British economy. Otherwise,..." Show more »"The EU model of freedom of labour needs to be reformed. Companies should only be allowed to recruit Non-British labour if there is sufficient evidence of a skills shortage in the British economy. Otherwise, it should be illegal to recruit foreign labour on the grounds that they will work for lower wages and for longer hours forfeiting worker rights. Companies should really invest money in national skills academies and state funded apprenticeships to reduce the skills shortage, instead of importing labour to fill the skills gaps, if we are to have a sustainable economy and population size. Currently the EU has created a race for the bottom, partly due to the extent to which freedom of labour is allowed, as well as the lack of egalitarianism between EU countries. It shouldn't be the working class of Britain that suffer as a result of freedom of labour, it should be the super rich suffer. A mechanism to redistribute the suffering from the poor to the rich is necessary." Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Feb 02 2009 12:24:17 PM

jociti is asking Gordon Brown: "a- Given current financial crisis, many jobs are lost. Yet it is your policy to create jobs, you insisted to get people out of benefit back to work or they lose the right to it. On the contrary, you cut..." Show more »"a- Given current financial crisis, many jobs are lost. Yet it is your policy to create jobs, you insisted to get people out of benefit back to work or they lose the right to it. On the contrary, you cut over 100,000s civil service jobs and those affected are back to benefit now. On the other hand too, you announced creation of 1,000s jobs. With this contraversial policy in mind, what credibility will people have in your policy and as the person to lead and create jobs for the people?

b- Every year retail price index rises above inflation, likewise transport costs, rent, council tax, bills, income tax, etc yet civil sevice pay increases below inflation leaving them to struggle and live below standard. While your government insists that there is no money to improve civil service position despite their hard work, could it be say that while you insist that there is no money for that, nevetheless, there is money to sponsor wars abroad?" Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Feb 07 2009 12:52:22 PM

LondonTowner is asking Hazel Blears: "Hello Hazel, Would you consider a fund similar to the Millenium Fund-but much, much bigger- to be given to local voluntary organisations to carry out small public works on a massive national scale? It..." Show more »"Hello Hazel,
Would you consider a fund similar to the Millenium Fund-but much, much bigger- to be given to local voluntary organisations to carry out small public works on a massive national scale? It would create jobs and community cohesion and give us something to remember the Great Recession by!" Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 12 2009 6:31:58 PM

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WilliamWhite is asking Hazel Blears: "Where they exist, can you channel money to support this worhtwhile exercise via the truly Local Councils (i.e.Parish & Town Councils)? Principal Councils and governement departments always seem to swallow..." Show more »"Where they exist, can you channel money to support this worhtwhile exercise via the truly Local Councils (i.e.Parish & Town Councils)? Principal Councils and governement departments always seem to swallow huge amounts of the money for "administratiobn" or "on-costs" whereas Local Councils know their communities and already work with the priority groups." Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 22 2009 11:30:31 AM

RayDuff is asking Hazel Blears: "Hazel - Whilst agreeing wholeheartedly with the thrust of the 'Communities in Control' empowerment white-paper - Should every LA area be encouraged to have its own community development team and resources..." Show more »"Hazel - Whilst agreeing wholeheartedly with the thrust of the 'Communities in Control' empowerment white-paper - Should every LA area be encouraged to have its own community development team and resources and an independent Community Empowerment Network in order to support and enable the full potential of communities and community action to be released? I feel that every area that identifies a need for CD support and a CEN should be supported in achieving that?" Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 20 2009 11:27:49 AM

durhamboy is asking Hazel Blears: "Following the issue of the Government's 2006 white paper Strong and Prosperous Communities a number of local authorities submitted proposals to change to unitary authorites. One of these was Durham which..." Show more »"
Following the issue of the Government's 2006 white paper Strong and Prosperous Communities a number of local authorities submitted proposals to change to unitary authorites. One of these was Durham which had 7 District Councils.
In 2007 the County Council's submission was accepted by the Government despite a local referendum in which the majority of responders voted against the proposal.
Firstly: why were the wishes of the local community ignored?
Secondly: The key point within the County Council's submission was the savings that would result and the main contributor to these proosed savings was the reduction in the number of councillors first to 126 and then in April 2009 to 90.
What are the minister's thoughts about:-
1) Durham's unelected chief executive being on a salary greater than the Prime Minister.
2) Council tax for 2009-10 in 6 of the 7 former District's being increased by more than the rate of inflation.
3) The councillors recently voting without consultation or referal to CLG, or any other party(ies), NOT to reduce the number of councillors to 90 but to keep the number at 126 negating much of the savings, and therefore the whole point, of moving to a Unitary Authority.
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 19 2009 9:09:16 PM

ordinaryboy is asking Hazel Blears: "With nearly 400 tender notices being advertised in the last 72hrs can you tell me how many s11 Health and Social Care Act 2002 reviews have been made?
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 16 2009 9:13:48 PM

anaylo is asking Hazel Blears: "Would the Secretary of State support measures to reduce the investment of time and money at risk by third sector organisations seeking to take on the management and ownership of assets from the public..." Show more »"Would the Secretary of State support measures to reduce the investment of time and money at risk by third sector organisations seeking to take on the management and ownership of assets from the public sector - both to empower communities and to support the creation of an environment conducive to a thriving third sector? E.G. government-backed guidance to local authorities, assessed via the CAA process, to facilitate sign-off of activities associated with community asset transfer at agreed junctures - which could then not be revisited - to safeguard early stage agreements entered into, and/or 'customer service standards' applicable to officers with delegated responsibility from Members to implement transfer approvals within nationally agreed timescales. " Show less »
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0 comment | Topic: Local Issues | Email to friends | Mar 16 2009 7:07:34 PM

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