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6 Nov 17
Mark Drakeford, Welsh cabinet secretary for finance and local government, talks exclusively to PF about taxes, budget setting and why austerity is a failed policy.
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18 Oct 17
Welsh public bodies need to improve their procurement of goods and services to ensure the £6bn spent annually achieves value for money.
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11 Oct 17
Welsh local authorities will see their core funding cut by 0.5% next year, following the announcement of a settlement local government secretary Mark Drakeford described as “challenging but...
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3 Oct 17
Welsh finance secretary Mark Drakeford today issued his draft budget for next year, pledging greater certainty for public services amid ongoing austerity.
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30 May 17
Welsh central government bodies should make their annual accounts more readable and employ checklists for completion.
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13 Apr 17
Warnings over the financial viability of plans to merge Welsh councils are being ignored as costs of implementation remains unclear, CIPFA has claimed.
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11 Apr 17
The Welsh finance secretary has called on the UK government to replace EU funding as Cardiff announced it had reached a target to draw down billions of European cash.
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31 Jan 17
Almost one third of community councils in Wales are failing to either prepare their accounts on time, manage risk, or set an appropriate budget, according to the Welsh spending watchdog.
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26 Jan 17
Local authorities in Wales working with charities and voluntary organisations must do more to demonstrate they are receiving value for money, the auditor general for Wales has said.
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30 Nov 16
The Welsh local government minister has told Public Finance he is “open minded” about how funding might change to accommodate planned reforms to the sector that would pool some services at a regional...
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25 Nov 16
The Welsh finance secretary has welcomed the increase in capital funding announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in the Autumn Statement this week, but said it did not go far enough.
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15 Nov 16
Ahead of addressing the CIPFA Wales conference later this month, Welsh Government cabinet secretary for finance Mark Drakeford sets out the challenges for public services posed by Brexit and...
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7 Jun 16
A refreshed Wales Bill will transform the Welsh Assembly into a “strong and mature” devolved Parliament, Welsh secretary Alun Cairns has said.
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20 May 16
Labour’s Carwyn Jones has been re-elected as first minister of Wales and appointed his Cabinet, which includes a Liberal Democrat member.
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24 Mar 16
An independent commission has concluded that reform to council funding in Wales, including authorities raising a far greater share of their income from local taxes, would deliver “significant...
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9 Mar 16
The Welsh Assembly has passed a bill that will allow for collection of the first Welsh taxes in 800 years.
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8 Dec 15
The NHS in Wales will receive an extra £300m next year as part of Welsh Government efforts to protect frontline services, according to Cardiff Bay’s draft Budget.
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26 Nov 15
CIPFA has published the first-ever financial position of the devolved public sector in Wales.
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26 Oct 15
The Welsh Assembly finance committee is seeking views on proposals to increase the powers of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales.
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27 Jul 15
Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt has been made an honorary CIPFA member in recognition of her work bringing in financial reforms in Wales.
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20 Jul 15
The auditor general for Wales has urged councils to strengthen their safeguarding arrangements for vulnerable children.
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17 Jun 15
Welsh public services minister Leighton Andrews has set out options for the possible reorganisation of councils in Wales that would see them cut down to eight or nine depending on how north Wales is...
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3 Jun 15
The Welsh Government is to halve the Right to Buy discount from this summer, and will also bring in legislation to scrap the policy altogether.
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5 May 15
Welsh Assembly members have called for more detail on the costs and benefits of local authority mergers.
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29 Apr 15
The auditor general for Wales is to take on a statutory duty to audit sustainable development, becoming one of just a handful of auditors general worldwide to do so.
6 Nov 17Mark Drakeford, Welsh cabinet secretary for finance and local government, talks exclusively to PF about taxes, budget setting and why austerity is a failed policy.
18 Oct 17Welsh public bodies need to improve their procurement of goods and services to ensure the £6bn spent annually achieves value for money.
11 Oct 17Welsh local authorities will see their core funding cut by 0.5% next year, following the announcement of a settlement local government secretary Mark Drakeford described as “challenging but...
3 Oct 17Welsh finance secretary Mark Drakeford today issued his draft budget for next year, pledging greater certainty for public services amid ongoing austerity.
11 Apr 17The Welsh finance secretary has called on the UK government to replace EU funding as Cardiff announced it had reached a target to draw down billions of European cash.
26 Jan 17Local authorities in Wales working with charities and voluntary organisations must do more to demonstrate they are receiving value for money, the auditor general for Wales has said.
30 Nov 16The Welsh local government minister has told Public Finance he is “open minded” about how funding might change to accommodate planned reforms to the sector that would pool some services at a regional...
9 Mar 16The Welsh Assembly has passed a bill that will allow for collection of the first Welsh taxes in 800 years.
27 Jul 15Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt has been made an honorary CIPFA member in recognition of her work bringing in financial reforms in Wales.
20 Jul 15The auditor general for Wales has urged councils to strengthen their safeguarding arrangements for vulnerable children.
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