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BUSINESS
Now is the winter of devolution discontent
By Cllr David Hodge | 08 December 2014
CCN chairman Cllr David Hodge laments last week's Autumn Statement, in which counties were left i...
FINANCE
A small victory
By Cllr David Sparks | 08 December 2014
The Autumn Statement spared local government from worse cuts and the sector won three lobbying vi...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A worrying trend towards self-sufficiency
By Frances Foster | 05 December 2014
Treasurer of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities, Frances Foster, on the unfairne...
FINANCE
'Colossal' local government spending cuts to come
By Jonathan Werran | 04 December 2014
Unprotected areas of public spending – including local government budgets - face ‘cuts on a colo...
FINANCE
Risks of retrenchment
By Andrew Jepp | 04 December 2014
The big risk to local government is that as cutbacks reduce services further, they expose themsel...
WHITEHALL
Divided devolution
By Sir Merrick Cockell | 04 December 2014
Sir Merrick Cockell says the chancellor's warm words for local government in the Autumn Statement...
FINANCE
Door is open for devolution deals, says Osborne
By Heather Jameson | 03 December 2014
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, told local government his door was ‘open’ for mo...
BUSINESS
Property experts hail business rates review
By Jonathan Werran | 03 December 2014
Property experts have hailed the chancellor for his pledge to hold a structural review of busines...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Further devolution deals fail to materialise
By Dan Peters | 03 December 2014
Chancellor George Osborne failed to announce any further devolution deals in today’s Autumn State...
FINANCE
Ex-minister urges Whitehall to give councils control over property taxes
By Michael Burton | 02 December 2014
All local property-based taxes such as stamp duty and land tax should be retained by local author...
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