Letters and Consultations

The South East Strategic Leaders frequently make policy shaping responses to government consultations, reports and inquiries.

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  Health & Social Care

  • Joint written evidence (with SEEC and SECASC) submitted to the Commons Health Committee's Inquiry into Social Care - October, 2011
  • Response to the NHS Listening Exercise, May 2011  43kb
  • Response to 'Healthy Lives, Healthy people: consultation on the funding and commissioning routes for public health', March 2011  59kb
  • Response to Liberating the NHS: increasing democratic legitimacy in health consultation, October 2010  32kb
  • Response to the Personal Care at Home Bill Consultation, February 2010  35kb

   

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  Finance

  • Response to consultation on 'Proposals for Business Rates Retention'  220kb part of the Local Government Resource Review, 24 October, 2011
  • Response to the Local Government Resource Review  44kb - letter to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, May 2011

   

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  Spending

  • The future shape of local services  68kb – letter to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
  • Addressing the national deficit, four priority areas for the Spending Review  299kb – letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Delivering ‘more for less’: pan public service efficiency savings  299kb – letter to the Chief Financial Secretary

   

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  The Growth Agenda

  • 'Devolving local major transport schemes'  55kb - SESL and South East England Councils (SEEC), joint response to the consultation, 28 March, 2012.
  • 'What can a mayor do for your city?  80kb' - SESL and South East England Counties (SEEC), joint response to the government consultation, 20 December, 2011
  • 'Developing a sustainable framework for UK aviation'  30kb - SESL's response on the government's draft scoping document (20 October, 2011)
  • Response to New Homes Bonus Consultation  20kb
  • Letter to Lord Heseltine  109kb - SESL has called for more priority to be given to the holding of a Regional Growth Fund road show in the South East
  • Delivering economic growth and prosperity  145kb – SESL and the CBI outline their unique Memorandum of Understanding to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
  • Employer National Insurance contributions  121kb – exclusion in the South East risks business growth, letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Reform of the planning agenda  67kb – SESL highlights it’s concerns
  • Response to the consultation Reforming the Local Authority Business Growth Incentive Scheme  70kb

   

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  Other

  • Response to Defra's consultation on 'Implementation of the Sustainable Drainage Systems provisions in Schedule 3, Flood and Water Management Act 2010'  52kb (12 March, 2012)
  • Response from Richard Benyon MP  223kb regarding sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), (December, 2011)
  • Implementation of SuDS Approval Body Duty  67kb, letter highlighting to Richard Benyon MP, Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries, the challenges to local authorities around this element of the Flood and Water Management Act (22nd November, 2011)
  • Response to government consultation: Draft National Planning Policy Framework  81kb 17th October, 2011
  • Written evidence submitted to the CLG Select Committee's Inquiry into the Draft National Planning Policy Framework - September, 2011 (awaiting publication)
  • Localism Bill, tabling of amendments Letter to Lord Cameron of Dillington  25kb (June, 2011), suggesting proposed amendments that require Strategic Infrastructure Assessments be undertaken as part of the Duty to Co-operate, and for SIAs to be referenced in Local Plans and CIL Charging Schedules.
  • Letter to Michael Gove on the scrutiny function of local authorities in relation to schools Bill  63kb
  • Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment  124kb – SESL has written to Defra to strongly request an extension for all Local Lead Flood Authorities on the deadline for submission of the Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment.
  • Implementation of Flood Risk Regulations  212kb – the need to sufficiently resource new burdens
  • Welcome to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government  128kb – SESL sets out its desire to translate government policy into action