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FINANCE

Welsh councils' performance data published

By Jonathan Werran | 29 January 2014

Welsh Government publishes performance data outlining how each of the 22 current local authoritie...

FINANCE

Gag deals 'hide failures'

By Jonathan Werran | 29 January 2014

The Treasury must take a more robust approach to the use of so-called ‘gagging clauses,’ a House ...

FINANCE

Union warns against property records overhaul

By Jonathan Werran | 29 January 2014

Plans to modernise HM Land Registry could undermine public confidence in property records, the tr...

FINANCE

No 10 not heeding county's growth cry, claims CCN chair

By Jonathan Werran | 29 January 2014

Cllr David Hodge demands greater role for counties in growth agenda at inaugural meeting of the C...

Taking the biscuit

29 January 2014

It’s crunch time yet again for the good boys and girls in Westminster.

#AskPickles was right up Diary's street

29 January 2014

Diary is not ashamed to admit that it’s often a cheeky chappy, chuckling unashamedly at local gov...

Crimbo no-no

29 January 2014

It’s the headline every parent, and possibly a few politicians too, dream of – a council that wan...

FINANCE

Performance-related pay for MPs idea tabled

By Jamie Hailstone | 29 January 2014

Performance-related pay should be introduced for MPs instead of a recommended £7,600 increase, ac...

FINANCE

Barnet LBC reverts to committee system

By Jonathan Werran | 29 January 2014

Barnet LBC to change governance structures and move from a cabinet to a committee system, it has ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

London Councils demands 'clarity' on future welfare system

By Jonathan Werran | 28 January 2014

London Councils hits out at the ‘lack of clarity’ over future of how welfare support services are...