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Budget: Mayors to get tourist tax powers
BUDGET 2025

Budget: Mayors to get tourist tax powers

By William Eichler | 26 November 2025

England’s regional mayors will soon have the power to introduce a levy on overnight stays in hotels, B&Bs, guesthouses and holiday lets, chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed.

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Late funding changes may cost metropolitan councils £121m

By Joe Lepper | 12 November 2025

Late changes to the fair funding review around deprivation and population are expected to cost me...

FINANCE

Worcestershire warned over special educational needs spending

By Joe Lepper | 10 November 2025

Worcestershire CC has been handed a statutory financial warning by auditors concerned its spendin...

LEGAL

Professional body for monitoring officers to be launched this month

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 06 November 2025

Launch of professional body for monitoring officers will add to those already established for chi...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

EXCLUSIVE: Recent appointments dominate top tier cohort

By Dan Peters | 06 November 2025

More than four out of five (81%) top tier council chief executives have been appointed in the las...

WORKFORCE

EXCLUSIVE: Succession headache for sector

By Dan Peters | 05 November 2025

Councils are ‘on the brink of staffing crisis’ due to their ageing workforce, public sector tradi...

HOUSING

Government 'confident' in housing plan

By Dan Peters | 29 October 2025

The Government has insisted it ‘remains confident in its plans to get Britain building’ after hou...

LONDON

London housing measures to empower mayor

By Dan Peters | 24 October 2025

A much-trailed announcement of muscular measures to accelerate housing delivery in London has bee...

FINANCE

Audit contracts extended by two years

By Dan Peters | 23 October 2025

Public Sector Audit Appointments (PSAA) has extended its current audit contracts by two years fol...

FINANCE

LGPS bigger than it has ever been

By Dan Peters | 23 October 2025

The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) for England and Wales has continued to grow in size an...

RECRUITMENT

EXCLUSIVE: Section 151 recruitment crisis warning

By Dan Peters | 21 October 2025

The sector is facing a recruitment crisis for section 151 officers, The MJ has been told.

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Kirklees Metropolitan Council