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FINANCE

Budget backing for garden cities

19 March 2014

The creation of garden cities will help Chancellor George Osborne's Budget pledge to build more t...

ENVIRONMENT

£140m funding to improve flood defences

19 March 2014

Chancellor George Osborne has announced £140m of new funding to repair and maintain flood defence...

Osborne's truth drug Budget

19 March 2014

The Budget speech if George Osborne had taken a truth drug...

FINANCE

Budget a 'double whammy' for local government workers

19 March 2014

Chancellor George Osborne has warned there will be continued ‘ pay restraint’ in the public secto...

FINANCE

Budget 2014: No great surprise for local government

19 March 2014

Visit www.themj.co.uk/budget2014/ for Budget news, reaction, resources and analysis.

FINANCE

Budget 2014: 'More hard decisions, more cuts', says Osborne

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2014

Chancellor confirms austerity measures would have to continue through to the end of the next Parl...

FINANCE

G4S to pay £109m prison tagging settlement

By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2014

Government contractor G4S has agreed to repay the Ministry of Justice £108.9m for overcharging on...

FINANCE

Call to fund councils through local VAT

By MJ Correspondent | 18 March 2014

‘Radical’ calls have been made for value added tax (VAT) to be used to fund local government.

FINANCE

Making council accounts user-friendly has cost

By MJ Correspondent | 18 March 2014

Criticism of ‘long and impenetrable’ local authority accounts has sparked a debate in the sector.

FINANCE

Councils must choose between devolution and redistribution

By MJ Correspondent | 18 March 2014

Councils wanting fiscal devolution must turn their back on the system of redistribution, the Birm...