The government research council that funds robotics, the EPSRC, published its Principles of Robotics in April 2011, which is easy to find with a web search.
Out of 35 in the West Midlands, only three defied the government with council tax increases confined to Telford and Wrekin, Stoke-on-Trent (both Labour) and Lichfield District (interestingly, Conservative).
BBC: More local authorities look set to increase council tax
Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, who runs Conservative-held Kent County Council and also chairs the bipartisan Local Government Association, says his council has to provide the government with information on over a thousand performance indicators.
Julie Dore, leader of the council, has attacked the government on its handling of council grants.
The government said Basildon Council was within its rights to evict the travellers from the site.
The council also defied the government last year by putting up council tax by 2.99%.
Unlike the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats aren't too keen on the UK Government's council tax freeze idea.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has told councillors they have a "moral duty" to sign up to the government's council tax freeze.
Under the scheme, aimed at easing housing shortages, the government matches the council tax raised on each newly built house for six years.
In future, councils may have to work within a fixed budget, set by the Department for Communities and Local Government, for council tax benefit.
Vale of Clwyd MP Chris Ruane met representatives of the company, along with officials from the Welsh Government and Denbighshire council in Westminster on Tuesday.
Funding also came from Europe, the Big Lottery Fund, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Community Energy Company, the Scottish Government and Highland Council.
The assembly government, Carmarthenshire Council and Millennium Commission came to the rescue at the eleventh hour on the understanding there would be a change in management and direction.
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Inexplicably, under the DPJ government, the Council was never convened.
The report led to the Welsh government and Cardiff council removing the governing body and appointing an interim executive board (IEB) for the first time in a Welsh school.
BBC: St Alban's Primary, Cardiff: Troubled school inquiry call
Treasury sources said they had made it clear, in background papers issued with the budget, that Mr Osborne was referring to workers directly employed by the government, not council employees.
Professor John Kay, who served on the Scottish government's Council of Economic Advisers, told a BBC documentary, Scotched Earth, that whisky's recent exporting success had brought "disappointing" benefits to its country of origin.
The subsequent Liberal Democrat motion to replace the cabinet-style government of the council, which is made up of councillors from the dominant party, with cross-party committees was passed by 37 votes to 31, with one abstention.
Senator OLYMPIA SNOWE (Republican, Maine): It says within 120 days, which is essentially in tandem with the surge by September, within 120 days, if the Maliki government - the Council of Representatives - cannot accomplish the political benchmarks that are essential and pivotal to national reconciliation, then we begin a phased withdrawal.
The Wales Book of the Year award is administered by Academi with the financial support of the Arts Council of Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Welsh Books Council.
But Devon County Council leader Brian Greenslade said the council was relieved by the government decision, as Exeter City Council's proposal for a unitary authority was "deeply flawed and could not have worked within the narrow confines of the city boundaries".
Thanks to the policy of selling council houses, pioneered by the Conservative government in the 1980s, most council homes have now been sold.
The information on the map has already been published on government "scorecards" that list adoption statistics for each council, but the government hopes the map will make it easier for people to get clear information on children waiting to be adopted in their home area and elsewhere.
He could be suspended from the council for six months after the local government ombudsman found he had breached the council's code of conduct.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | North East Wales | Council leader to put his defence
Retail Rocks is being funded by the Scottish government, the city council and local businesses.
Glasgow's 2018's bid team comprises the Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council and the British Olympic Association.
The theatre also receives financial support from two other local councils and the government-funded Arts Council.
Government sources said the council's rules meant it could not consider two proposals at the same time.
Wadebridge School became an academy in 2012, getting its funding from central government rather than Cornwall Council.
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The council said government cuts to funding meant it had no choice but to propose the increase.
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