Sentence examples for raising powers for from inspiring English sources

There will be more tax raising powers for councils to pay for social care.

He said his committee would work with the LGA to frame new laws that would define local government in statute "as a separate, viable entity" and called for income tax raising powers to be handed to English local authorities.

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Alan Travis is the Guardian's home affairs ­editor Housing and local government policies It is generally accepted that Labour would press ahead with city-­region "compacts" – one pilot city-region, Greater Manchester, is moving to a new form of indirectly-elected governance – although it is unspecific on additional revenue-raising powers for town halls.

Specifics of the electricity plans are expected before the end of the year, but the framework set out in July indicates that they are likely to sharply raise power bills for consumers in general — and desalination plants in particular.

BEIJING (Jim Bai and Tom Miles) - China has raised power prices for industrial, commercial and agricultural users in some regions by about 3percentt in an attempt to ease what threatens to be the worse power shortage in seven years in the world's second-largest economy.

The cost of plugging the gap left by the nuclear shutdown is likely to raise power costs, particularly for Germany's globally competitive industrial sector, which consumes nearly half of the total electricity supply.

Only yesterday, a Commons committee proposed new tax-raising powers for English local government.

But here's one I am going to predict: City financiers, accountants and tax advisers are going to find  new work following the revolutionary plans to devolve tax-raising powers for business rates and income tax to local councils and regions.