23-662: The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England . The Green Flag Award was introduced in 1996, and first awarded in 1997, by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) with
46-714: Is Sarah Healey who took up her post in February 2023. MHCLG was formed in July 2001 as part of the Cabinet Office with the title Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ( ODPM ), headed by the then Deputy Prime Minister , John Prescott . In May 2002 the ODPM became a separate department after absorbing the local government and regions portfolios from the defunct Department for Transport, Local Government and
69-667: Is North London's Finsbury Park which lost its Green Flag in 2018. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ( MHCLG )
92-810: Is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom . It is responsible for housing , communities , and local government in England . It was established in May 2006 and is the successor to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, established in 2001. The department shares its headquarters building, at 2 Marsham Street in London, with the Home Office . There are corresponding departments in
115-437: The Department for Communities and Local Government ( DCLG ). In January 2018, as part of Theresa May's Cabinet reshuffle, the department was renamed the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ( MHCLG ). In September 2021, Boris Johnson renamed the department yet again, calling it the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ( DLUHC ), being more powers outside of just England to manage funds across
138-730: The Homes and Communities Agency . In 2008 the department along with the Local Government Association produced the National Improvement and Efficiency Strategy which led to the creation of nine Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) with devolved funding of £185m to drive sector-led improvement for councils. Its main counterparts in the devolved nations of the UK are as follows. Scotland Northern Ireland Wales Departments of
161-834: The Scottish Government , the Welsh Government , and the Northern Ireland Executive , responsible for communities and local government in their respective jurisdictions. MHCLG's ministers are as follows, with cabinet ministers in bold: Local government finance (including local taxation, business rates and local government pensions); Local government policy (including the Office for Local Government, stewardship, local audit, and governance reform); Mayoral Combined Authorities and pan-regional bodies; Planning casework High streets and towns; Community Ownership (including Assets of Community Value and
184-581: The Community Ownership Fund); Funding delivery and simplification of legacy funding streams (including UK Shared Prosperity Fund, Levelling Up Fund, Levelling Up Partnerships); Investment Zones and Freeports; Elections policy and delivery; Resilience, recovery, and emergencies Grenfell Inquiry; Building safety, regulations, Building Safety Regulator and remediation; Homelessness and rough sleeping; Housing quality; Supported housing and domestic abuse; Planning casework The Permanent Secretary
207-666: The Government of the United Kingdom King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The Government of
230-656: The Regions . The ODPM was criticised in some quarters for adding little value and the Environmental Audit Committee had reported negatively on the department in the past. During the 5 May 2006 reshuffle of Tony Blair's government , it was renamed and Ruth Kelly succeeded David Miliband (cabinet-level Minister of State for Communities and Local Government within the ODPM) to become the first Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government at
253-409: The United Kingdom is divided into departments that each have responsibility, according to the government, for putting government policy into practice. There are currently 24 ministerial departments, 20 non-ministerial departments, and 422 agencies and other public bodies, for a total of 465 departments. Ministerial departments are generally the most high-profile government departments and differ from
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#1732775939677276-400: The United Kingdom. On 20 February 2021, it was announced as part of the government's levelling up policy , that MHCLG would be the first government department to have a headquarters based outside of London. Five hundred posts, including those of senior civil servants, will be moving to Wolverhampton by 2025. On 23 February 2021, the then Secretary of State, Robert Jenrick , announced he
299-468: The United States. The owners of spaces that wish to hold the accreditation, pay a fee to be assessed by volunteer judges on an annual basis with a process involving secret shoppers and inspection of both the park and the owner's management plans. The aspects that spaces are judged on are: A failure to meet the judges' standards can result in the accreditation being withdrawn; one example of this
322-513: The awardees, the Green Flag Award is also issued to sites with different uses, such as Loughborough University and Bluewater Shopping Centre , for the management of their grounds. The Green Flag Award is managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England and several other countries, including Australia and
345-629: The department on the same day, after being sacked for disloyalty by the prime minister, Boris Johnson . Michael Gove was reappointed as the secretary of state by the prime minister Rishi Sunak on 25 October 2022. Following the Labour Party's victory at the 2024 General Election , Angela Rayner was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 5 July 2024. The department reverted to its former name, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 8 July 2024. A Levelling Up Taskforce
368-592: The i9 office development on 10 September 2021. At the opening of the new office development the Secretary of State was joined by the leader of City of Wolverhampton Council Ian Brookfield and the West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street . On 6 July 2022, most of the ministers responsible for the department resigned after the Chris Pincher scandal . The secretary of state, Michael Gove , also left
391-433: The intention of establishing agreed standards of good management, to help to justify and evaluate funding and to raise park attendance. The scheme was managed by Civic Trust , on MHCLG's behalf, until they lost the contract and the charity went bust in 2009. The scheme has been managed by Keep Britain Tidy since 2012, with sister organisations Keep Scotland Beautiful , Keep Wales Tidy and TIDY Northern Ireland delivering
414-578: The other two types of government departments in that they include ministers. A list of all ministerial departments is shown below. The Rt Hon Simon Case CVO Cabinet Secretary, Head of the Civil Service Catherine Little CB Permanent Secretary Non-ministerial departments are headed by civil servants and usually have a regulatory or inspection function. A list of all non-ministerial departments
437-515: The performance of local government, and support[ing] its improvement". MHCLG teams have been actively supporting digitisation of town planning processes as part of the Levelling Up Mission. Under the "Proptech innovation fund", MHCLG has been funding four rounds of digitisation initiatives within various local councils in England. The department also was previously responsible for two other agencies. On 18 July 2011 Ordnance Survey
460-437: The scheme across the UK, and various other bodies delivering worldwide. The scheme's aim is to promote standards of good management and best-practice amongst the green space sector. It is described by its issuers, Keep Britain Tidy, as an "internationally recognised award that is a benchmark for well-managed green space". As of October 2021, 2227 parks and open spaces held a Green Flag Award. While public parks make up most of
483-522: Was formed in September 2021 headed by former Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane . The Levelling Up policy was not initially defined in detail, but would include: The department is responsible for UK Government policy in the following areas, mainly in England : The Office for Local Government ("Oflog"), established in 2023, is an office within the department responsible for providing "authoritative and accessible data and analysis about
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#1732775939677506-592: Was hopeful that staff would be working in Wolverhampton by the summer of 2021. He also announced that they were considering building a new office development in or around the city centre to house the new headquarters. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, suggested it should be within walking distance of local newspaper Express & Star , where he previously did work experience. With the intention to relocate some 500 members of staff to Wolverhampton, Robert Jenrick officially opened its new Wolverhampton offices at
529-565: Was transferred to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and on 28 February 2013 the Fire Service College was sold to Capita . In January 2007, Ruth Kelly announced proposals to bring together the delivery functions of the Housing Corporation , English Partnerships and parts of the then Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government to form a new unified housing and regeneration agency,
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