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A Discretionary Housing Payment is a discretionary and short-term payment made in the United Kingdom that helps people with their housing costs. [1] To get a Discretionary Housing Payment a person must be in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit.
The Greater Manchester Council was abolished in 1986, after which Bolton became a unitary authority, providing all local government services. Bolton Council unsuccessfully petitioned Elizabeth II for the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton to be granted city status in 1992 (the Queen's 40th year as monarch), in 2000 (for the Millennium celebrations ...
The council styles itself Bolton Council rather than its full formal name of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council. [6] From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater Manchester's ...
[11] [12] As a County Borough, Bolton was independent of the administration of Lancashire County Council, although it remained part of the county for judicial, shrievalty and lieutenancy purposes. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 , the County Borough of Bolton was abolished and its territory transferred to Greater Manchester to form ...
Bolton Rural District was a short-lived rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 and comprised an area surrounding, but not including, the County Borough of Bolton .
The two areas were reunited in 2004 as Tonge with The Haulgh, one of the twenty electoral wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester. [13] It elects three councillors to Bolton Council using the first past the post electoral method, electing one councillor every year without election on the fourth. The ward population at ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton shown within England. The 2019 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Bolton Council in Greater Manchester, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party, which had run the council since 2006 and had maintained a majority since ...