Michael Gove

Councils at 'breaking point' Government told, as dozens in bankruptcy risk

Wilko chairman Lisa Wilkinson was accused by the Business and Trade Select Committee in the House of Commons of 'burgling a failing business' by MP Liam Byrne

Wilko collapse: Lisa Wilkinson accused by MP of 'burgling a failing business'

Michael Gove giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry (PA)

Highly infectious disease placed decision-makers in zugzwang

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen.

Ben Houchen authority expects Teesworks report to be published 'mid-December'

Homes in Catcliffe were evacuated after Storm Babet caused severe flooding.

Environment Agency denies claims that villagers received no warning

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

Some of those caught in the cladding and building safety scandal meet Michael Gove who came to Leeds to discuss their plight.

Michael Gove visits Leeds to meet those trapped in the building safety crisis

New Lane, Huntington

Rural village in Yorkshire set to become suburban as 300 homes are to be built

The Sturdys have campaigned against losing a large amount of their tenanted farmland to the solar farm

Victory for Yorkshire tenant farmer as council set to reject massive solar farm

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 01: Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak walks from the Midland hotel on day one of the Conservative party conference on October 01, 2023 in Manchester, England. The Conservative Party Conference is being held in Manchester this year and will be Rishi Sunak's first speech to the party members as Conservative leader. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Eight Yorkshire towns and cities to get £2 million a year for levelling up

The Guildhall, the building where Hull City Council is based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire.

East Yorkshire devolution: What is it, when can I vote and when will it happen?

The Brownfield Housing Fund was allocated to West Yorkshire as part of its devolution deal. It allows West Yorkshire Combined Authority to provide grants to developers to build housing on long vacant brownfield sites in areas where “market failure” has meant few are willing to invest.

£89m housing fund 'disproportionately' benefitting Leeds

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove, Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, speak to a Trainee Assistant Site Manager during a visit to a Taylor Wimpey housing development. PIC: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Amount of nutrients entering rivers from new homes is small - Michael Gove

Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, delivers a speech on planning reforms at Kings Place in King's Cross, north London. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Why is the Government seeking to rip up water pollution rules? - Jayne Dowle

North York Moors

National Park warns scrapping of environmental protections may impact birds

A construction site

Restrictions on pollution look set to be abolished to allow more homebuilding

Rob Gill is the founder and managing director of Leeds-based Green Box Thinking, a carbon management consultancy for the construction industry. PIC: Michelle Heseltine Photography

More important than ever that the construction sector decarbonises - Rob Gill

Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Michael Gove

Ministers lay the groundwork for transformation of Leeds

A London bus passes an information sign for the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) in London. Mayor Sadiq Khan intends to extend Ulez to all of London's boroughs. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

Delivering sanctions and not benefits is harming the eco cause - David Behrens

Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, delivers a speech on planning reforms at Kings Place in King's Cross, north London. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Tackling inflation is critical to implementation of housing plan - Michael Gove

North Yorkshire mayor candidate Keane Duncan

Net Zero 'crucial' to economic future of Yorkshire, ministers warned
THE future economic fortunes of the county depend on being “serious” about net zero, Ministers have been warned, amid suggestions the Government could backtrack on green policies.

Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, Communities and Local Government Michael Gove a

Government announce property pledges including more homes for Leeds city centre

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised not to “concrete over the countryside”. PIC: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

The country is at a crossroads when it comes to housing - The YP says

The Prime Minister last night said that the Government will hit its target of one million homes between 2019 and the end of next year.

Government to focus housebuilding away from rural areas

Lee Bloomfield, chief executive of Manningham Housing Association.

Yorkshire housing association cheif challenges government on spending

'Your article about the lack of pupils taking a GCSE in languages illustrates one of the policies of the unpopular former education secretary Michael Gove'. PIC: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

The Tories have failed to protect the education system - Yorkshire Post Letters

“We collectively, especially in the department, need to be able to better respond to warning signs because these failures are felt most acutely by taxpayers and residents in higher costs and poorer services," Michael Gove, the Levelling Up Secretary, said yesterday.

Mayors and councils to be scored on performance

The government has announced the panel for its independent review of finance and governance at Teesworks.

Government reveals panel to investigate Teesworks financial arrangements

View of ground work carried out at the Teesworks site, home to the Teesside Freeport on July 16, 2022. PIC: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Independent inquiry is needed into the Teesside Freeport project - Andy Brown

'Michael Gove's comments highlighted the danger of prizing national statistics at the expense of understanding people’s everyday lives'. PIC: PA

Listening to lived experience is important to improving lives - Luke Tryl

TEESSIDE, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 28: A general view along the River Tees as the official announcement was made today that Teesside will become a Freeport on October 28, 2021 in Teesside, England.

Investigation into Teesworks project launched by Government

Rachel Maclean

Minister pledges action to stop Yorkshire residents being priced out by tourists
Residents in Yorkshire holiday destinations will no longer be priced out of their hometowns by tourists, a minister has pledged.

River Tees

Tees Freeport: Government 'has not given permission' for investigation

The forthcoming new rules on tenancy agreements will ensure that more renters can have pets

Details of radical rental reforms and when they will come into force

'Sir Keir Starmer and Labour are doing a classic bit of fence sitting on housing policy'. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

‘Tough decisions’ on housing are bound to upset someone - Bill Carmichael

Rishi Sunak and Ben Houchen at the Teesworks site in Redcar, in July 2022

Teesside Freeport: Calls for investigation into major redevelopment

Andrew Lowson of York BID has his say on the plans

Regeneration scheme is York's answer to Levelling Up snub: Andrew Lowson

'Today’s debate comes a little more than a year since the plan to convert the former RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse, near York, into a centre for 1,200 migrants was announced'. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Government trying to dump asylum seeker centres on communities - Andrew Vine

Property market update

Yorkshire property market update and ideas on how to solve the rental crisis

Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove speaking at a commemorative ceremony at St John's Smith Square in London ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day. Picture date: Wednesday January 25, 2023.

Holiday lets set to require planning permission

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is shown a 3-D printed model of an All Terrain Armoured Transport Walker from Star Wars, made by apprentices, during a visit to the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, for a discussion on energy security and net zero. Picture date: Thursday March 30, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire

Government paves the way for the return of onshore wind

Gina Coladangelo and Matt Hancock on day one of the Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse. Picture date: Tuesday March 14, 2023.

MP second jobs rule change needed after Matt Hancock sting: The YP says

File photo dated 04/06/21 of Matt Hancock. Mr Hancock and former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have told a fake overseas company looking for MP advisers their daily rate for consultancy would be £10,000. In a sting operation set up by campaign group Led By Donkeys, Mr Hancock and Mr Kwarteng both set out six-figure sums for what they would expect to be paid to advise a non-existent firm in South Korea.

Hancock and Kwarteng tell fake firm they will advise for £10,000 per day

This property for sale with Dacre, Son & Hartley is on Hepworth Way, Skipton, where properties range from council tax band C to F

Why council tax and stamp duty reforms should be on the agenda

Wakefield has been named a 'levelling-up partner' by the Government

The Yorkshire city named as a 'levelling-up partner' by the Government

The cladding scandal is far from ove

Leeds meeting for leaseholders in Yorkshire affected by cladding scandal

Residents on Adel Lane, in north-west Leeds, want a section of the road shut on May 7, the day after King Charles is officially crowned. But speaking at a community committee this week, local Conservative councillor Barry Anderson accused bosses of being “pedantic” in turning down the request.

Road chiefs accused of being ‘pedantic’ in after blocking Coronation party

Andrew Milnes, mortgage principal at the Mortgage Advice Bureau, Bingley

Getting a mortgage on homes affected by the cladding crisis

Lisa Nandy, the party’s shadow levelling up secretary, said it was unacceptable that the promised update on the white paper’s 12 “missions” had not materialised after Mr Gove said it was needed to provide “rigorous external scrutiny, including by parliament".

Levelling Up 'fighting to remain relevant' one year on

Clive Betts spoke to The Yorkshire Post while visiting Food Works Sheffield, a company that “upcycles” unwanted food into affordable meals for the local community said that business like these, which receive funding from investment groups such as Big Society Capital, were key to one of the main barriers to levelling up, productivity.

Labour should refom council tax to address inequality, says Sheffield MP

Votes are emptied from ballot boxes onto the tables during a count. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Integrity of elections depend on voters not being denied - YP Letters

Lisa Nandy said: “No longer will we write off the assets, talent and potential of most people in most parts of Britain.” PIC: PA

Transferring power out of Westminster will help economy grow - The YP says

There remains some scepticism within those involved in devolution over whether Rishi Sunak is committed to the process.

Inside Devolution: What does it mean and will it happen?

Counting for the South Yorkshire Mayoral Election takes place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.

South Yorkshire should be next for enhanced devolved powers, says Mayor

The Yorkshire Post has been told that there are "question marks" over Rishi Suank's commitment to devolving new fiscal powers to mayors

Mayors set for new enhanced powers in Manchester and West Midlands

CBI Director-General Tony Danker speaking during the CBI annual conference at the Vox Conference Centre in Birmingham.

CBI calls for business tax-relief to be extended in Budget

he Prime Minister also broke his pledge to appoint a Minister for the North when appointing his cabinet last year and in yesterday’s reshuffle, another of the four policies agreed with the Northern Research Group (NRG) of Tory MPs.

Sunak ditches 'Northern Oxbridge' pledge

Antisocial behaviour is "biggest barrier" to levelling up, report warns

Rachael Loftus outside the Timblebeck apartment building in Leeds

Gove makes a difference but misery continues for building safety scandal victims

Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy has written to Michael Gove demanding to know where the annual report on progress is.

Flawed approach to levelling up is undermining the policy - The YP says