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
A glance at the small print
By Michael Burton | 04 December 2014
Michael Burton scrutinises the Treasury documents accompanying yesterday's Autumn Statement to se...
WHITEHALL
Welfare cap still fit, OBR confirms
By Jonathan Werran | 03 December 2014
Independent government economic forecasters have confirmed the Coalition remains on target to mee...
WHITEHALL
Osborne claims deficit reduction remains on track
By Jonathan Werran | 03 December 2014
Chancellor George Osborne today told Parliament the deficit had been halved since 2010 and was fa...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Smith report prompts race for devolution
By Heather Jameson | 03 December 2014
‘English votes for English laws’ is less important than getting the right deal for communities, t...
WHITEHALL
How immigration has helped reduce the deficit
By Michael Burton | 02 December 2014
The recent wave of immigrants to the UK since 2000 – in particular those from the EU – has contri...
WHITEHALL
Axing fund is cynicism dressed up as localism
By David Finch | 28 November 2014
Cutting funding for local welfare provision and effectively saying ‘it’s local government’s probl...
WHITEHALL
DWP wasting money in Universal Credit fix, PAC chair rages
By Jonathan Werran | 26 November 2014
The coalition’s flagship Universal Credit welfare reform programme is running further behind sche...
WHITEHALL
Pressure growing for welfare fund U-turn
By Dan Peters | 25 November 2014
Councils have called for the Government to continue to fund local welfare provision amid criticis...
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