The Government Office for London represents central government across the capital, delivering policies and programmes in the London region on behalf of eleven central government departments, and reflecting London’s views back to Whitehall. Government Office’s aim is to make London a better place: healthy, safe, clean and green, and investing in children and economic development.
Examples of GOL’s work
We lead on the negotiation of Local Area Agreements on behalf of central Government, acting as the key link between local partners at the borough level, and Whitehall.
Our London Resilience Team, set up after the 9/11 attacks, is working to make sure that London is fully prepared for any emergency.
We deliver central government policies on crime reduction, reducing drug misuse, planning and neighbourhood renewal. GOL has recently remodeled itself, to focus on joined up, geographic working and now has five “locality” divisions focused on London’s boroughs, bringing together our sponsor Departments’ policies and programmes.
Our resettlement team is putting in place the first coordinated pan-London approach to resettling ex-offenders.
We lead on ensuring the delivery of the Every Child Matters agenda in London.
Elsewhere, our website gives further details of what we do and gives an overview of what is happening in London. The Key Information about Your Borough pages provide information on population, employment, politics and education in your Borough and in London. London Statistics provides a digest of key statistics about the Capital, and links to further statistics and research.
I hope you find the site interesting and useful – we will continue to develop and update the contents and welcome any feedback on the site or suggestions for information you would like to see included.
