Labour leader Ed Miliband has branded the government’s economic strategy a ‘failure’ and called on Chancellor George Osborne to use next week’s Autumn Statement to ‘change course’ to deliver growth...
The government is likely to fail in its attempt to freeze the council tax across England for a second year after local authorities revealed concerns about the proposal.
Nine out of ten councils are on track to stay within their budgets this year, despite 'unprecedented' cuts to their income, the Audit Commission said today.
Whitehall departments have been urged to address 'weaknesses' in how they distribute funding to local bodies, after MPs labelled the systems currently used 'complex and difficult to understand'.
Government plans to fast-track a 50% cut in the tariff paid for electricity generated by solar panels could cost councils hundreds of millions of pounds, the Local Government Association said today.
Chancellor George Osborne should take measures to kick-start growth while maintaining the government's deficit reduction plan when he makes his Autumn Statement later this month, according to the CBI.
The Local Government Association will next month announce plans for a bond club arrangement that could allow councils to jointly borrow from financial markets.
The government's localism plans are simply ‘cover for the cuts’ it is imposing on councils, Labour's new spokesman on local government has told Public Finance.
Councils in London should be allowed to retain up to 60% of future business rate growth to boost the local and capital-wide economy, according to think-tank proposals published today.
Auditors called today for an ‘early warning system’ to flag up problems with schools’ finances, as head teachers grapple for the first time with reduced budgets.
Unemployment in the UK has hit a 17-year high, with more than 2.5 million people now out of work, the Office for National Statistics has revealed today.
The flagship venue for next summer’s London Olympic Games will remain publicly owned after plans for the stadium to be taken over by an east London football club were abandoned.