Local Enterprise Partnerships are to be tested to the limit as hard-pressed councils strive to be part of the 21 new 'enterprise zones' announced in the Budget
Audit Commission staff are in favour of establishing an employee-owned mutual, but slow and unclear movement by the government risks derailing the plans, MPs were told last night.
Two major development projects in Scotland are to be funded using Tax Increment Financing, which allows councils to borrow against future gains in business rate income
A London council has called for enterprise zones to be extended beyond the Midlands and North of England ahead of this week’s Budget, in which ten new zones are due to be announced.
The Local Government Association has hit back at criticism of senior council salaries, after a list published today revealed a record 2,295 town hall staff were paid more than £100,000 in 2009/10.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 over the whole of last year, cutting the workforce to just under 6.2 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Abolishing the Audit Commission will save less than £10m a year, a fifth of the amount claimed by government, the spending watchdog's chiefs have told MPs
The chair of the Commons local government select committee has accused ministers of ‘making it up as they go along’ in their drive to prescribe council funding to the voluntary sector.
Today's Hutton report has failed to address widespread concern that the imminent rise in employee pension contributions will lead to a mass opt-out from the Local Government Pension Scheme
Private Finance Initiative costs are putting increasing pressure on Scottish councils, raising the spectre of ‘steep’ council tax rises in the future, according to economists.
Concerns among local authorities that the 2001 census under-counted migrant communities have led to the deployment of 41 community advisers in this month’s £480m exercise
Final salary pension schemes in the public sector should end and a cap be put on the amount taxpayers contribute, according to Lord Hutton’s review of pensions, published today.
