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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.
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8 Apr 15
Major local government reorganisation is coming in Wales, with plans to reduce the number of principal authorities from 22 to 12. It needs adequate funding and realistic timescales if it is to...
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10 Feb 15
The Welsh government is consulting on a new land transaction tax for Wales, it has been announced. Finance minister Jane Hutt said this would be the first new tax to be levied in Wales for 800 years.
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2 Feb 15
There has been a deterioration on the quality and accuracy of accounts produced by some local authorities in Wales, the auditor general has said.
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24 Nov 14
Welsh government plans to reorganise local authorities through a series of mergers could cost as much as £268m to implement, a CIPFA report has found.
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1 Sep 14
Cardiff Council has been criticised by the Auditor General for Wales for not addressing weak performance in some key service areas due to what it called ‘fragmented leadership and management’.
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29 Apr 14
When David Cameron and Nick Clegg crossed the Severn to hand over new fiscal powers to the Welsh Assembly, they kept a ‘lockstep’ on income tax. But there’s no turning back from the...
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24 Mar 14
A ten-year £92m project to disperse Welsh Government offices around the country suffered from poor governance and weak cost estimates and might not have been value-for-money, auditors said today
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4 Jun 13
Finance Minister Jane Hutt is marshalling Wales’ response to austerity. She talks to Public Finance about the Labour-led nation’s battle for new fiscal powers, and why she’s not...
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14 May 12
Proposals to improve corporate governance at the Wales Audit Office are ‘over-prescriptive and unbalanced’, according to the Welsh auditor general.
29 Apr 15The 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.
8 Apr 15Major local government reorganisation is coming in Wales, with plans to reduce the number of principal authorities from 22 to 12. It needs adequate funding and realistic timescales if it is to...
10 Feb 15The Welsh government is consulting on a new land transaction tax for Wales, it has been announced. Finance minister Jane Hutt said this would be the first new tax to be levied in Wales for 800 years.
2 Feb 15There has been a deterioration on the quality and accuracy of accounts produced by some local authorities in Wales, the auditor general has said.
29 Apr 14When David Cameron and Nick Clegg crossed the Severn to hand over new fiscal powers to the Welsh Assembly, they kept a ‘lockstep’ on income tax. But there’s no turning back from the...
4 Jun 13Finance Minister Jane Hutt is marshalling Wales’ response to austerity. She talks to Public Finance about the Labour-led nation’s battle for new fiscal powers, and why she’s not...
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