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WHITEHALL
Budget 2016: Osborne boosts infrastructure and flood defences
By Dominic Browne | 16 March 2016
Flood resilience was a keynote winner in today’s Budget, with the chancellor raising the potentia...
WHITEHALL
Budget 2016: Government 'redoubles efforts to make Britain fit for future'
By Chris Ames | 16 March 2016
Chancellor George Osborne has announced funding for major transport infrastructure projects in th...
FINANCE
Budget 2016: Business rates blow for local government
By Heather Jameson | 16 March 2016
Local government faced a further potential blow to its finances in the Budget with the news that ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Budget 2016: New mayors as 'devolution revolution takes hold'
By Dan Peters | 16 March 2016
New elected mayors for English counties and southern cities have been announced by chancellor Geo...
FINANCE
Council leaders must seek a model that works
By Paul Watson | 16 March 2016
Cllr Paul Watson, chair of the Key Cities group, says council leaders should look carefully at th...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Weak link between localism and economic growth
By Dr Paul Greenhalgh | 16 March 2016
When business rate retention was first introduced in 2013 it had two underlying policy objectives...
FINANCE
Reforms will not make council tax proportionate
By Dan Peters | 16 March 2016
The Scottish Government’s proposals for council tax reform ‘fall short’ of making it a proportion...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Budget 2016: Academy plan will 'not improve standards'
By Sam Clayden | 16 March 2016
Fixating on giving schools independence will not generate improvement in education standards, cou...
BUSINESS
The road less travelled
By Heather Jameson | 15 March 2016
As local government hits a crossroads, Heather Jameson talks to councillor David Hodge about the ...
FINANCE
Will Osborne revisit public pensions reform?
By Michael Burton | 15 March 2016
George Osborne’s abandonment of any fundamental changes to pension scheme taxation 10 days ago be...
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