Public leisure centres in Oxford are getting £10.9 million investment to cut carbon, as part of plans to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

The government is being urged to create 250,000 new homes for key workers as a reward for their efforts during the pandemic.
The Centre for Policy Studies is calling for changes to help key workers, both in the public and private sector, get their foot on the property ladder, and repay them for their efforts during the pandemic.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that all new buses ordered by Transport for London for the capital will now be zero-emission.
The commitment to deliver a 100 per cent zero-emission bus fleet in London has been brought forward by three years, from 2037 to 2034, with City Hall stating that 10 per cent of London’s bus network will be zero-emission by the end of 2022.
There are already 950 zero-emission buses on the road or on order.

The LGA has said that investment in public sport and leisure facilities and services is key to levelling up the health of the nation.

The CCN has warned that the government risks undermining its net-zero target by focusing on reducing emissions in cities instead of England’s counties.

Regulators are clearing the runway for drones to transport vaccines and other live-saving drugs, in a ground-breaking venture funded by government.
The project, to be run by the Civil Aviation Authority, is one of 21 bold new initiatives backed by the government’s Regulators’ Pioneer Fund to propel cutting-edge innovation across the UK. The Fund supports projects led by regulators and local authorities that help support the country’s regulatory environment to keep pace with technological advances of the future – benefiting both entrepreneurs and consumers.

The NYA has stressed that a failure to act now will decimate the youth sector leaving a generation of young people without opportunities to thrive.

Chloe Smith has announced measures to apply the tried and tested system of First Past the Post to the election of council and ‘metro’ mayors across England.

Social care reforms will protect more individuals from large care costs but will not improve access to care and could make local care markets ‘unsustainable’.

Robert Jenrick has confirmed that he has been sacked as Housing Secretary, saying that it has been a ‘huge privilege’ to serve at MHCLG.