Briefings and responses

Digital access and skills are essential to enabling people to fully participate in an increasingly digital society. Tackling the digital divide will be crucial to addressing social and economic inequalities and levelling up every community.

Access to fast and reliable broadband is vital infrastructure for supporting growth, particularly in rural areas.

Councils have continually raised on-going concerns over residents' lack of access to fast and reliable broadband especially in rural areas

A Private Members’ Bill to require providers of electronic communications networks to grant other such providers access to their apparatus where that is necessary to ensure a consistent network coverage.

The regulation proposed in this Bill is aimed at ensuring platforms have systems and processes in place to deal with illegal and harmful content and their associated risk, particularly to children and young people.

The Government’s industrial strategy provides a critical opportunity to drive the creation of a successful, world-leading economy and the LGA welcomes the Government’s ambition to drive growth and tackle the economic imbalances in different parts of the country.

This briefing summarises the main announcements in the industrial strategy of relevance to local government and sets out the Local Government Association’s response.

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill acts upon long running asks from councils and the LGA for further devolution in England.

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill acts upon long running asks from councils and the LGA for further devolution in England. We are pleased that the Government has proposed to speed up the process and make good on its commitment to offer all of England the opportunity to benefit from a devolution deal by 2030. It is also important that councils of all sizes are engaged in the devolution process.

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill acts upon long running asks from councils and the LGA for further devolution in England.