On 29 October minister Jim McMahon withdrew decisions to merge councils in nine English counties. He promised MPs news on more areas by Christmas.
4 of 4In four of four such promises, at least one area got a decision on time. Only once did every area get one.
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Wales will not start its £10 a week Cynnal payment until the UK government says it is free of tax and benefit cuts. Once in six requests from Scotland or Wales did the UK government agree within 77 days. Three times it first said no.
Reform UK holds 49 of the 62 seats and has named Hayley Coles. Seven of eight times, an English council elected the leader its ruling group named, and once that person pulled out before the vote.
Matthew Pennycook turned down the council's wish to remove one site. In 2025 and 2026 he gave such orders to eight councils, and all eight did what he asked in time, most on the last day.
A jury found him guilty of nine counts of fraud and four of tax evasion. In three of seven past sentences of councillors in England and Wales for cheating public money, the court sent them straight to prison.
Under party rules only David Chadwick, its one MP in Wales, can stand for now. In two of the last four leadership races the party had more than one candidate and members voted.
Gloucestershire's hospital trust plans to restart home births before Christmas. It has no date yet to reopen its Cheltenham birth centre.
Northern Ireland has no budget this year, so its hospital doctors have not had their pay rise. Nine of ten times doctors set a repeat strike date, the strike went ahead, and once a late offer stopped it.
At least 23 data centre projects wait for planning decisions in Scotland. Three of ten times the Scottish government named a date for a planning plan or guidance, it was on time, and seven times it was late.
Ministers sent inspectors into Tees Valley Combined Authority, the body led by mayor Ben Houchen. Six of ten times ministers kept the first deadline of such an inspection, and four times they extended it.
The Unite union paused a strike by air traffic controllers at Leeds Bradford Airport so they can vote on a new pay offer. Four of four times a union at a UK airport did this, the later strike dates did not go ahead.
An NHS trust stopped births at its Barnstaple hospital on 11 August for lack of staff and missed a 29 September reopening date. Three of five times a birth unit missed one date, it stayed shut at the next, and twice it reopened.
Northern Ireland has no budget for this year, so nurses there have not had a 3.3% pay rise. Three of five times health workers there voted to strike, a strike came within six weeks, and twice it came later or not at all.
Labour's leader in Wales, Ken Skates, says his party will not stop the budget. Five of ten times a party made a budget deal with the Welsh government, it said it would abstain, and five times it made no such statement.
Green Hill will cover about 1,200 hectares, much of it farmland. The law gives opponents six weeks to go to court. Since 2024, opponents of three of six big solar farms approved by ministers went to court, and three did not.
In five of ten such tram strikes the first day went ahead, and five times it was called off before it began.
Of five such requests since 2006, ministers agreed to one, companies withdrew three and one is still waiting for an answer.
In all eight strike votes at UK airlines and airports since 2018, workers backed a strike.
In two of seven similar disputes, the employer ruled out some or all forced job cuts within three months of the first strike.
In four of seven British councils that dismissed and rehired staff on new pay, a union struck before the new contracts began.
In 4 of 10 similar UK food firms that shut in administration, part of the firm was sold within 31 days, each time within 15 days.
In all nine UK teacher work-to-rules since 2012, the action was still in place a month after it began.
In 5 of the 7 measured cases since 1991, a British plan to cut council numbers reached a formal paper within 101 days.
Two of the last eight local revolts against a Home Office asylum site went to court within a month; two sites opened within 90 days.
Four of the last six improved offers to a devolved government were accepted inside 30 days; the two that failed were Stormont budgets.
All four English bus franchising phases since 2023 started in the month their authority named.
None of the six English devolution deals published without a mayor since 2015 carried a power to raise money.
One of the four structural changes to council tax proposed by a Scottish administration since 1999 reached the Parliament.
Two of the last eight Scottish measures to meet a UK-level constraint came through intact.
Seven of the last eight Scottish Bills to merge a tier of area bodies passed as introduced; the National Care Service lost its centre.
Four of the four Scottish fare schemes since 2021 started on the day named; it is the end dates that move.
None of the last eight minority budgets in Cardiff or Edinburgh was agreed before the draft was laid.
Four of the last six cash injections for the longest waits in Wales and England saw a lower two-year count the next full month.
None of the four Scottish visa proposals since 2018 produced a route.
One of the four Scottish requests for referendum powers since 2012 was granted; the last three were refused.
All seven dates named since 2022 for a household support payment in Northern Ireland were kept.
None of the last eight years of MHCLG completions passed 13,000 social rent homes; only the first of the thirteen did, at 17,580.
Seven of the last eight Northern Ireland readings below 2 per cent were followed by another; the full record is fourteen of sixteen.
Three of four drought summers since 1976 saw the retail price surge arrive months later; the driest, 1995, did not.
In four of four such promises, at least one area got a decision on time. Only once did every area get one.
One of the four structural changes to council tax proposed by a Scottish administration since 1999 reached the Parliament.
Two of the last eight Scottish measures to meet a UK-level constraint came through intact.
Seven of the last eight Scottish Bills to merge a tier of area bodies passed as introduced; the National Care Service lost its centre.
None of the last eight minority budgets in Cardiff or Edinburgh was agreed before the draft was laid.
Four of the last six cash injections for the longest waits in Wales and England saw a lower two-year count the next full month.
None of the four Scottish visa proposals since 2018 produced a route.
One of the four Scottish requests for referendum powers since 2012 was granted; the last three were refused.
None of the last eight years of MHCLG completions passed 13,000 social rent homes; only the first of the thirteen did, at 17,580.
Seven of the last eight Northern Ireland readings below 2 per cent were followed by another; the full record is fourteen of sixteen.