Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, charged with overseeing local authorities and cutting waste described the spending as "wild".

No, you let bloated Communities Secretaries make them instead, apparently.

George Osborne and Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, come out fighting.

Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, hoped to include plans to make councils do so in new waste strategy.

The Communities Secretary was unveiling measures to deal with the 120,000 problem families that blight parts of Britain and cost the economy £8billion a year.

The new Communities Secretary, who has responsibility for housing policy, also claimed for utilities, maintenance, insurance, television licence, council tax and phone bills.

Cuts to funding by local councils have been announced by Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles.

Hilary Benn, the shadow Communities Secretary, said the report was "a strong condemnation" of the Government's reforms.

Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, has hit out at the council bosses.

Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, will meet some of the nation's biggest housebuilders at a conference next week where he will give the keynote speech.