Some ministerial productivity demands are ‘populist nonsense’ more likely to appear in election campaigns than ‘plug material gaps’ in council finances, an expert has warned.
Chief executive of the Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy, Rob Whiteman, said last week’s letter from local government minister Simon Hoare asking councils an astonishing 51 questions on productivity was ‘better than expected’.
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