A prominent government finance figure has admitted the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has done ‘no thinking’ about how aspects of full business rates retention will work.
The DCLG's deputy director of local government finance, Stuart Hoggan, said the department must work out a way of measuring needs and resources, and that it must look into how features of the system will work in the future.
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