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FINANCE
Kingston in secret talks for fiscal freedom
By Heather Jameson | 19 January 2015
Kingston upon Thames LBC has been in secret talks with the Government to be the first flagship au...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
NE businesses call for Barnett fund reforms
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 January 2015
Business leaders in the North East have added their voice to calls for the Barnett formula to be ...
WHITEHALL
Amid the cuts, let's toast to local devolved government in 2015
By Heather Jameson | 16 December 2014
And so we reach the end of the year and, despite the predictions of Armageddon that have characte...
FINANCE
Councils call for ratepayers' 'duty to notify' over business properties
By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014
Councils have called on the Government to introduce a statutory duty on ratepayers to inform the ...
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...
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