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BUSINESS RATES
Let's see what happens on longer-term funding
By Lorna Baxter | 31 March 2021
Lorna Baxter gave evidence at the Public Accounts Committee in response to the NAO report on loca...
WHITEHALL
Pandemic forces finance reform rethink
By Martin Ford | 16 March 2021
Whitehall plans for local government finance reform were thrown into doubt this week after civil ...
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
A testing legacy?
By Ann McGauran | 16 March 2021
The NHS Test and Trace programme is not only hugely expensive, it is also ineffective, says a com...
FINANCE
Councils left seriously underfunded, NAO finds
By Michael Burton | 08 March 2021
Coronavirus has left local authorities seriously underfunded and facing budget cuts unless the Go...
ENVIRONMENT
MPs call for review of local authority flood funding
By Laura Sharman | 26 February 2021
The Government needs a better understanding of whether funding allocated to local authorities to ...
FINANCE
Spelthorne told it must 'understand and manage risk'
By Michael Burton | 01 February 2021
A council that invested almost 40 times its budget in property must ‘understand and manage risk a...
FINANCE
More councils will be forced to issue Section 114 notices, MPs warn
By Dan Peters | 22 January 2021
More councils will ‘soon be unable to balance their books and be forced to issue Section 114 noti...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
The PAC casts a gimlet eye on the ministry
By Michael Burton | 08 December 2020
The phrase ‘glass houses and throwing stones’ comes to mind when Government departments finger wa...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
MPs savage abandoned £192m housing scheme
By Martin Ford | 08 December 2020
A £192m affordable housing programme that failed to deliver any homes has been labelled ‘deplorab...
WHITEHALL
Lawyers brought in over Towns Fund row
By Martin Ford | 08 December 2020
Legal advisers have been summoned to break a deadlock between civil servants and MPs over a key d...
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