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Slough Borough Council is the local authority for the Borough of Slough in Berkshire, England. Slough has had an elected council since 1863, which has been reformed several times. Since 1998 the council has been a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council .
The Borough of Slough is a unitary authority with borough status in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, Southern England. The borough is centred around the town of Slough and includes Langley . It forms an urban area with parts of Buckinghamshire and extends to the villages of Burnham , Farnham Royal , George Green , and Iver .
Buckinghamshire was redesignated as a non-metropolitan county in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which also transferred Slough, Eton, and nearby villages to Berkshire. Until 1974 the lower tier of local government comprised numerous municipal boroughs, urban districts and rural districts.
Slough was, from 1863 to 1974, a local government district in southern Buckinghamshire, England. [3] It became an urban district in 1894 and was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1938. It was abolished in 1974 and now forms part of the borough of Slough in Berkshire .
In 2017, unemployment stood at 1.4%, [6] one-third the UK average of 4.5%. [7] Slough has the highest concentration of UK HQs of global companies outside London. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe, with over 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses. [8]
The government decided instead to leave the districts unchanged and make all six of them unitary authorities. [ 10 ] The way the change was implemented was to declare that there should be no county council for the non-metropolitan county of Berkshire, but that the six existing district councils would take on county council functions in their ...
Pages in category "Government and politics of Slough" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Eton and Slough (UK Parliament constituency)
In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government, which is led by a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.