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The economy of Leeds is the most diverse economy of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private-sector jobs growth of any UK city and has the highest ratio of public to private sector jobs of all the UK's Core Cities. Leeds has the third-largest jobs total by local authority area with 480,000 in employment and ...
The modern city council was established in 1974, with the first elections being held in advance in 1973. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough Urban District, Horsforth Urban District, Otley Urban District, Garforth Urban District, Rothwell Urban ...
Morley town hall, one of the towns forming the borough Leeds Civic Hall on Millennium Square, meeting place of Leeds City Council. Leeds City Council is the local authority of the district. The council is composed of 99 councillors, three for each of the city's 33 wards. Elections are held three years out of four, on the first Thursday of May.
In 2009–2010 the DWP stated £1.95 billion job-seekers allowance, £2 billion income support and employment and support allowance, £2.4 billion in council tax, £2.8 billion in pension credit and £3.1 billion for housing benefit; in total £12.25 billion had not been claimed. [43]
Of the towns and cities, Leeds is the largest in geographical area, population and economy. However, Leeds contains less than a third of the region's population and geographical area. Bradford is the second largest city in the region, together Leeds and Bradford contain more than 50% of the region's inhabitants. Both Leeds and Bradford are ...
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council.The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2]
Conservative Party HQ - Began relocation to Leeds in 2020. [9] First Direct - a subsidiary of HSBC [10] GHD - global HQ for hair fashion company [11] Jet2.com - low cost airline [12] Leeds Brewery [13] Leeds Building Society - formerly known as Leeds and Holbeck Building Society [14] Labcorp - clinical Research Unit for S&P 500 company, to ...
The district has grown out towards the west of the city. The Wellington Place development and the wider Wellington Gardens area of the city contain a number of international corporations. Wellington Place is currently under construction. [5] Historically, Holbeck Urban Village was Holbeck's closest area to the centre of Leeds.