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18 Jan 21
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be allocated by central government ministers, bypassing devolved administrations, according to Treasury chief secretary Steve Barclay.
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13 Jan 21
The Welsh Government is to pay back £3m in European Union grant funding following concerns raised by the Welsh spending watchdog over value for money.
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21 Dec 20
The Welsh Government has proposed a one percentage point increase in its residential land transaction tax, the successor to stamp duty land tax, to help “support housing priorities”.
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17 Dec 20
The Welsh Government has threatened legal action over the Internal Market Bill, which it says is an “attack on its legislative competence”.
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15 Oct 20
An ambitious IT system for health boards and local authorities in Wales is taking longer to roll out and more “costly than expected”, according to Audit Wales.
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13 Oct 20
The Welsh spending watchdog has warned councils of a significant increase in risk from fraud due to Covid-19, after uncovering £8m of fraud or overpayment over the past two years.
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6 Oct 20
Councils in Wales could face significant funding shortfalls over the rest of this financial year as a result of Covid-19, according to Audit Wales.
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18 Sep 20
Finance ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have expressed concerns over the financial implications the UK Internal Market Bill will have on devolved governments.
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17 Aug 20
Local authorities in Wales are set to receive an additional £260m in funding from Welsh Government, to help cover the increased costs resulting from Covid-19.
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3 Aug 20
The Welsh government is to allocate an additional £22.7m in funding for adult social care services, to help meet the additional costs resulting from Covid-19.
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24 Jul 20
The government has guaranteed £3.7bn of additional funding for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help the devolved administrations plan their response to Covid-19 in the months ahead.
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29 May 20
The Welsh government has urged central government to increase its borrowing limit to help fund the country’s coronavirus response.
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23 Apr 20
The Welsh government is making £33m available to councils to continue free school meals for children over the summer holidays.
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6 Apr 20
The Welsh government has called on Westminster to deliver additional financial support for Cardiff Airport in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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19 Mar 20
Welsh councils are preparing to “scale back” some services as the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow in the UK.
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17 Feb 20
Devolved finance ministers have written to the new chief secretary to the Treasury asking him to hold an “urgent” meeting ahead of the Budget.
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5 Dec 19
Wales has worked hard to ensure it has an audit system that can be relied upon and that continues to develop, writes Auditor General for Wales Adrian Crompton.
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24 Oct 19
Failure to accelerate reform within the Welsh primary care sector could jeopardise the sustainability of essential services, according to The Wales Audit Office.
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8 Oct 19
Boards aimed at improving local wellbeing of citizens must start “thinking and acting differently” to achieve their potential, the Welsh Auditor General has said.
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9 Aug 19
Thousands of new council homes supplied by green energy are at the heart of a vision for Wales put forward by the region’s government.
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2 Aug 19
Wales’s multi-billion-pound public finance deficit is reducing, but only because of spending cuts – not increasing revenues – according to experts at Cardiff University.
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19 Jul 19
Devolution has “struggled to take root in England” compared to other UK countries, according to Akash Paun, senior fellow at the Institute for Government think tank.
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12 Jun 19
Wales’ new auditor general has worked in the country for 20 years but Dominic Brady finds out it is his exposure to political systems further afield that inform his view of a sustainable future.
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11 Jun 19
Public services in Wales are at risk of losing up to £1bn a year as a result of fraud - but public bodies lack the resources to take effective action, auditors have warned.
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29 May 19
Public sector deficits were highest in devolved regions in the financial year ending in 2018, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.