CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has called on chancellor Philip Hammond to give public bodies greater flexibility to respond to Brexit and other areas of financial uncertainty.
The UK is heading for a £14.9bn deficit by 2019-20 instead of the £10.4bn surplus projected at the last Budget, according to an analysis of the public finances by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Up to a quarter of hospital patients could be better cared for in their homes if council social services had the money to do this, the Local Government Association has said.
Chancellor Philip Hammond faces a sharp deterioration in the public finances in his Autumn Statement, but could still increase investment if he delivers his promised fiscal ‘reset’, the...
The government is to guarantee European structural and investment funding for projects signed off before the Autumn Statement, chancellor Philip Hammond has announced, but projects using EU funds...