The local government review - An inept process

Local Government Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 90-106

  Sinnott, John ^a  

^a Leicestershire County Council   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0347099222     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003939708433878     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Local Government Commission for England, Local Government Review - Procedural Advice on the Preparation of Proposals (November 1993), p.2.
2. Lord Redcliffe-Maud (Chairman), Royal Commission on Local Government in England, 1965-1969, Volume I, Report, Cmnd. 4040 (London: HMSO).
3. Local Government Commission for England, Renewing Local Government in the English Shires - A Report on the 1992-1995 Structural Review (London: HMSO, March 1995), pp.16-22.
4. Royal Commission on Local Government, op. cit., Volume II, Memorandum of Dissent.
5. M. Clarke, 'A Poisoned Chalice? The Re-constituted Local Government Commission', Public Administration, Vol.75 (Spring 1997), pp.109-18.
6. Local Government Commission for England, Draft Recommendations - The Future Local Government of Leicestershire (London: HMSO, June 1994), p.19.
7. Local Government Commission for England, Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of Leicestershire - A report to the Secretary of State for the Environment (London: HMSO, Dec. 1994), p.31.
8. Department of the Environment, Policy Guidance to the Local Government Commission for England, first issued July 1992, revised November 1993, further revised June 1995.
9. Local Government Act 1992, Part II, S.13(5).
10. Letter from Chairman of the Local Government Commission for England to certain local authority chief executives, 10 June 1994.
11. Local Government Commission for England news release, 10 June 1994.
12. Local Government Commission for England newspaper advertisement, referred to in Local Government Commission, Final Recommendations on Leicestershire, p.13.
13. MORI Research Study, June-July 1994, Leicestershire Residents Survey 1994.
14. MORI Research Study, July-Aug. 1994, Leicestershire Stage 3 Research.
15. MORI Research Study, May-June 1993, Community Identity in Leicestershire.
16. Local Government Commission, Final Recommendations on Leicestershire, p.29.
17. Department of the Environment, Policy Guidance, November 1993 revision.
18. Local Government Commission, Reviewing Local Government in the English Shires, pp.16, 18.
19. Department of the Environment, Policy Guidance, June 1995 revision.
20. See 'Who said size was not important?', The Independent, 4 Oct. 1995; and M. Chisholm, 'Some Lessons from the Review of Local Government in England', Regional Studies, Vol.29, No.6 (1995), pp.563-9; 'Independence under Stress', Public Administration, Vol.75 (Spring 1997), pp.97-107.
21. See 'Who said size was not important?', The Independent, 4 Oct. 1995; and M. Chisholm, 'Some Lessons from the Review of Local Government in England', Regional Studies, Vol.29, No.6 (1995), pp.563-9; 'Independence under Stress', Public Administration, Vol.75 (Spring 1997), pp.97-107.
22. See 'Who said size was not important?', The Independent, 4 Oct. 1995; and M. Chisholm, 'Some Lessons from the Review of Local Government in England', Regional Studies, Vol.29, No.6 (1995), pp.563-9; 'Independence under Stress', Public Administration, Vol.75 (Spring 1997), pp.97-107.
23. See, for example, Local Government Commission for England, 'Renewing Local Government in the English Shires - A Progress Report' (London: HMSO, Dec. 1993), p.2.
24. Local Government Commission for England, The 1995 Review of 21 Districts in England (London: HMSO, Sept. 1995), p.5.
25. The Local Government Staff Commission (England) was established in May 1993 under s.23 of the Local Government Act 1992. Guidance to the Commission was issued by the government in June 1993. As with the Local Government Commission, the Staff Commission was affected by broad terms of reference, backed by restrictive guidance.
26. Local Government Commission for England, The 1995 Review, pp.19-20.