Birmingham’s Government Office for the West Midlands is to be abolished, it’s being reported…
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said […] “The Government Offices are not voices of the region in Whitehall. They have become agents of Whitehall to intervene and interfere in localities, and are a fundamental part of the ‘command and control’ apparatus of England’s over-centralised state.”
by site admin
10 Feb 2011 at 15:26
It’s now had a stay of execution, apparently.