Community Budgets

Lord Pickles Excerpts

Monday 17th October 2011 Written Statements

[The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Mr Eric Pickles)]

I have today published a community budget prospectus which invites areas to express an interest in participating in two new pilot programmes. The first tests how local places can make best use of all the money that is spent in their area on public services on a wide range of problems. The second tests how this approach might be adapted to give neighbourhoods more control over the services that matter most to them.

I have placed a copy of the prospectus in the Library of the House.