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WHITEHALL
'Delay rollout of 100% rates retention by at least a year'
By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017
The rollout of 100% business rates retention should be pushed back by at least a year, the chair ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Whitehall holding up public estate plans
By Mark Conrad | 25 April 2017
Local authorities will have helped create 25,000 new homes by 2020 as part of a Whitehall program...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Moving to pastures NAO
By Abdool Kara | 20 April 2017
In his last column for The MJ as he takes up his new role, Abdool Kara outlines the work he will ...
FINANCE
Whitehall may step in over authorities' commercial deals
By Dan Peters | 05 April 2017
The Government may intervene to lower the risks associated with the increased commercial activiti...
BUSINESS
Transparency warning issued for LEPs
By Mark Conrad | 29 March 2017
Communities secretary Sajid Javid this week urged local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) to ‘take a...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Finance overhaul risks exposed
By Mark Conrad | 29 March 2017
Auditors have warned some councils will struggle to raise enough cash to deliver statutory servic...
WHITEHALL
DCLG could lose £600m after Brexit
By Mark Conrad | 29 March 2017
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) could lose up to £600m of its annual b...
FINANCE
Patterns of change
By Aileen Murphie | 22 March 2017
In the third of a series of articles on the financial sustainability of local authorities, Aileen...
HEALTH
STP fears as bosses 'not confident' about delivery
By Dan Peters | 28 February 2017
Fresh concerns about sustainability and transformation plans (STP) have been raised after a surve...
FINANCE
'Unfair' grant allocation fails to meet 'need' factor
By Dan Peters | 21 February 2017
The Government’s explanation for how it allocated £300m of transitional grant is ‘wafer thin,’ cr...
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