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					<title><![CDATA[Exclusive - Gateway team in 'power grab' row]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A directorate with responsibility for the Thames Gateway is being created within the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) in a move that has been interpreted as Whitehall resisting attempts to transfer powers over the area to the new housing super-quango.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Pre-Budget Report rumour round up]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Exchequer is to extend a scheme that sees government underwrite loans to small firms in next week's much-trailed Pre-Budget Report, press reports say.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[£750,000 for urban parish councils]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Communities secretary Hazel Blears has pledged £750,000 of government support to create a new generation of urban parish councils.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[New criteria to help smaller charities]]></title>
					<link>http://www.regen.net/news/ByDiscipline/policy/861875/New-criteria-help-smaller-charities/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The eligibility criteria for a new community empowerment fund have been altered by the Government to make it easier for smaller charities to bid for cash, a document published last week reveals.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Finance Briefs]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first award from a £30 million programme designed to help fund improvements to local authority assets that are then transferred to and managed by third sector organisations has been allocated to a community centre in County Durham.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[New criteria set to cost councils]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two councils stand to lose out on £4.45 million from the Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) after the Government published a consultation proposing changes to the fund's eligibility criteria.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Government grants are 'getting longer']]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Government grants are being offered over longer periods, according to research published by a charity that supports the third sector.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Tories pledge tax break for employing jobless]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Firms that take on jobseekers during the economic downturn would receive tax cuts of up to £2,500, under proposals announced by the Conservative Party today.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Watchdog: 11 per cent of EU renewal cash squandered]]></title>
					<link>http://www.regen.net/news/ByDiscipline/policy/861194/Watchdog-11-per-cent-EU-renewal-cash-squandered/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[More than a tenth of money spent by the European Union last year on tackling the wealth gap between European regions should not have been paid out, according to the EU's own financial watchdog.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Ministers mull end to tenancy for life, reports say]]></title>
					<link>http://www.regen.net/news/ByDiscipline/policy/860900/Ministers-mull-end-tenancy-life-reports-say/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[People living in council homes would no longer be entitled to a tenancy for life under proposals being considered by the Government to cut waiting lists, according to press reports.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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