Government must meet its pledge on council coronavirus costs 27 Apr 2020 The Mayor of Tower Hamlets has set out the estimated cost of Tower Hamlets Council’s…
Mayor warns Government’s housing support doesn’t go far enough 08 Apr 2020 The Mayor of Tower Hamlets has written to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities…
Mayor Biggs responds to Labour Leadership result 04 Apr 2020 Responding to the announcement that Sir Keir Starmer MP has been elected as Leader of…
Mayor Biggs responds to Budget 2020 12 Mar 2020 Responding to the Chancellor’s budget announcements yesterday (11th March), Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs…
Deputy Mayor tells MPs that councils need to be set free to deliver homes 11 Mar 2020 Councillor Rachel Blake attended a Housing, Communities and Local Government select committee meeting on Monday…
‘Levelling up’ the UK shouldn’t mean raiding cash from London 10 Mar 2020 Mayor John Biggs has written to the Chancellor ahead of the Government’s budget announcement tomorrow…
SEND Crisis: Tower Hamlets issues £12m invoice to Prime Minister 09 Mar 2020 Tower Hamlets parents, pupils, schools, the National Education Union and Tower Hamlets Council came together…
Our council budget 24 Feb 2020 Local government has faced a decade of cuts due to Tory austerity. In Tower Hamlets…
Government’s review of council funding threatens £3m loss for Tower Hamlets 18 Feb 2020 In the same week that Mayor Biggs will present his council budget proposals, the Mayor…
Tower Hamlets Labour protects council tax reduction scheme 13 Feb 2020 In their budget plans for the coming year, Tower Hamlets’ Labour Mayor and councillors are…
55% of those reassessed for PIP in Tower Hamlets see support cut or stopped altogether 04 Feb 2020 55% of those reassessed for PIP in Tower Hamlets see support cut or stopped altogether…
Mayor Biggs reassures EU residents ahead of Brexit day 29 Jan 2020 Ahead of ‘exit day’ on 31st January – the day when the UK leaves the…
Mayor writes to Prime Minister calling for funding cuts to local services to be reversed 28 Jan 2020 Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has written to the Prime Minister calling for cuts…
Tower Hamlets Council calls for universal credit to be scrapped 20 Jan 2020 Tower Hamlets councillors overwhelmingly backed a motion proposed by Labour councillors at a full council…
Westferry Printworks 17 Jan 2020 The Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has responded to the announcement that the Secretary…
Mayor presents council budget 13 Jan 2020 Mayor Biggs presented his draft budget at a Cabinet meeting last week (Wednesday 8th January)…
Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs responds to the Queen’s Speech 19 Dec 2019 The Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has warned he is “fearful for the future…
Mayor Biggs backs cross-party calls to scrap two-child benefit limit 13 Dec 2019 Mayor John Biggs has backed calls from a cross-party committee of MPs to scrap the…
New figures show benefits at their lowest level since 1948 as food bank demand soars 13 Dec 2019 A study by the IPPR think-tank has found that social security payments are now at…
Mayor gives frosty reception to government spin over benefit freeze 13 Dec 2019 Mayor John Biggs has criticised the announcement that the benefit freeze is due to end…
Private tenants on average paying £425 more than they can afford just to pay the rent 13 Dec 2019 A new report from the housing charity Shelter highlights that 2 million families are breaking…
Audit Office reveals government’s failure on Starter Homes 13 Dec 2019 A new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that ‘no Starter Homes…
The school funding crisis is far from over 30 Oct 2019 New national figures reveal that schools in Tower Hamlets have lost out on over £110m…
Benefit freeze pricing families out of a home 21 Oct 2019 New research from the National Housing Federation (NHF) shows that more than nine in ten…
New figures show scale of police cuts in Tower Hamlets 15 Oct 2019 New figures reveal that between 2010 and 2018 the number of police officers in the…
Universal Credit blunders continue despite council pointing out errors 07 Oct 2019 Latest figures show a further 150 errors on Universal Credit claims in Tower Hamlets this…
Labour’s Conference plans set to make a difference in Tower Hamlets 03 Oct 2019 Labour has announced a range of new policies at its annual conference in Brighton 21st…
Overground services must improve, mayors and MPs demand 23 Sep 2019 The mayors and MPs for Hackney and Tower Hamlets have written to Transport for London…
Tower Hamlets Council opposes London City Airport growth proposals 23 Sep 2019 Tower Hamlets Council members have agreed a motion in opposition to London City Airport growth…
Tower Hamlets Council condemns Government over special needs funding crisis 18 Sep 2019 At a meeting of the full council (18th September 2019), Tower Hamlets Council overwhelmingly passed…