Sentence examples for tier authority from inspiring English sources

Surrey is an upper tier authority so it has different responsibilities to Mole Valley, which has responsibilities for housing benefit for example, that I'm going to have to get to grips with.

I would also struggle to do this job in an upper tier authority - when a lot of real public health sits in lower tier, borough or unitary authorities - or where I had to go through another director to get to a chief executive, or did not have the same budgetary control.

As for the other top tier authority next door - Devon County Council - you have to go back to 1987 to dredge up a vote of confidence in the council leader.

A 'county borough' was a 'single tier' authority and regarded within the Local Government Act 1888 as independent of county council jurisdiction or an "administrative county of itself".

These new 'districts' were 'second-tier' administrative units under county council jurisdiction, but did not form part of a county borough which were 'single tier' authorities.

These new unitary (i.e. single tier) authorities were largely based on major towns, which acted as regional employment, commercial, social and recreational centres and took into account local transport infrastructure and travel patterns.

It does not include the shire counties - or county councils - in two-tier authority areas, which also face cuts in government money.

He is the Labour leader of Dudley Council and those of us with long memories recall his time on the West Midlands County Council which presided as an upper-tier authority over the seven metropolitan districts for 12 years until it was wound up in 1986.

4. At least 158 of the 232 UK county and unitary councils have a Facebook account (Birmingham has 42). 5. YouTube is used by at least 123 of the 232 top-tier authorities (Birmingham has six channels).

I swotted over single-tier and two-tier authorities, boroughs and districts, Mets and non-Mets, trying to fix in my mind the varied responsibilities and powers of each.

Nearly 10,000 candidates were battling for seats in English county councils and unitary authorities - "top-tier" authorities in charge of schools, roads, refuse collection and fire and rescue among other services.