Local authorities rival health and education as a funding priority for the Government, a Whitehall official believes.
Speaking at today’s finance conference organised by the Local Government Association, director of local government finance at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Nico Heslop, said he had been surprised by the increase in funding provided by the provisional settlement published last month.
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