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RT @mhclg: Cash boost of £350m will help build 1000s more affordable and social homes. This will help people secure their own home and get…

Brilliant day at #Lablocal25 🌹 As the former leader of the LGA Labour group, it has been an honour to return as the Minister for Local Government and show my appreciation to all Labour councillors for the hard work they do on the ground to serve their communities.

RT @LGA_Labour: Brilliant to have the Minister of State for local government, @JimfromOldham at our conference, here with our leader @bevc…

RT @AngelaRayner: Buying or selling a home can be one of the most expensive and stressful periods in life. Today we’ve committed to bring…

I responded to an excellent debate on coalfield communities in Parliament this week. Today, the social and economic scars are still visible and MPs are rightly demanding better planned long-term investment. In the end, it should go hand-in-hand with devolution where power, investment and impact is felt locally, ending the wasteful bidding wars for limited pots of money and false promises of levelling up.

The Local Government Finance Settlement is the start of recovery, not the end. We are ensuring greater financial stability through the first multi-year settlement in over a decade and rebuilding public services with over £5bn additional funding to start fixing the foundations.

RT @mhclg: Our devolution revolution is delivering the biggest transfer of power from Whitehall. We’ve confirmed six new areas to join our…

RT @mhclg: Room for one more? Or six?! We’ve announced six more devolution agreements. We’re delivering our pledge to widen devolution to…

RT @AngelaRayner: We are acting to give millions of workers a pay rise. We promised to Make Work Pay and improve living standards across t…

RT @LGAcomms: Jim McMahon OBE MP (@JimfromOldham), Minister for Local Government and English Devolution thanks everyone for making sure loc…

Today marks the first integrated settlement for Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, a landmark moment in our ambitious devolution agenda to empower local leaders and bring decision making closer to communities.

RT @hmtreasury: We are going further and faster to deliver the government’s Plan for Change, to kickstart economic growth and put more poun…

RT @UKLabour: Today, 80 years since Auschwitz was liberated, we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and all victims of…

RT @mhclg: This week @JimfromOldham met with audit stakeholders from across the country to discuss our strategy for overhauling local audit…

RT @mhclg: Metro Mayors met in South Yorkshire yesterday to discuss the next steps for the English Devolution White Paper - giving Mayors m…

RT @AndyBurnhamGM: We are pleased the Government has accepted GM’s investment-led approach to clean air. Because of our success in deliver…

RT @mtpennycook: The work continues to switch on the measures in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act.   I have today signed regulations t…

RT @mhclg: "The £5 billion of new investment into local government this year is our recovery operation, and that’s about getting money to t…

RT @BeeNetwork: Mayor @AndyBurnhamGM has unveiled step-by-step plans to bring rail into the #BeeNetwork by 2028. 🚆🐝 Find out more: https:/…

The English Devolution Bill will strengthen public services by delivering local government reorganisation and establishing more directly elected mayors, who will have the new powers to convene public services. We are making these changes in a bottom-up way, empowering communities across Britain to take power into their own hands, with the government's role being to enable them to have the resources available to meet their particular demand pressures in a sustainable way for the long-term.