Press releases

Mayor Philip Glanville, Chair of London Councils' Transport and Environment Committee, responds to NAO's report on local government and Net Zero in England

London Councils' response to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech on levelling up the country, from our Chair, Cllr Georgia Gould.

The Rough Sleeping Programme Director will work with London local authorities, the GLA, central government, health services, and other partners to help co-ordinate strategy and improve outcomes for rough sleepers in the capital.

Local leaders in London are calling for people to treat frontline workers with kindness following a growing number of reports of increasingly hostile incidents.

The London Office of Technology and Innovation is working with the Office for National Statistics to increase data science skills across London local government.

A coalition of local government and major employers in the capital has joined forces to propose urgent reforms to the Apprenticeship Levy.

Local authorities need greater powers to combat non-traffic sources of air pollution, according to a debate heard in the House of Lords this week.

London Councils is calling on Government to provide certainty on funding for London boroughs for the rest of this year as they continue to support Londoners and businesses through the Covid-19 pandemic.

London Councils and TfL have announced an expansion of the capital’s trial of rental e-scooters. E-scooters will be available to rent from Monday 5 July in the City of London and northern parts of Lambeth. People will be able to ride them in Southwark who are participating as a ride-through borough.

Cities, investment and innovation experts have today (Thursday July 1st) launched a Commission which begins the process of identifying a transformational programme of Green Growth for the UK’s cities.
Initial analysis by the Commission of UK city climate plans suggests that meeting net zero in London and the UK’s Core Cities could bring up to £330bn of investment into the UK.