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24 Sep 14
The Welsh National Assembly’s Finance Committee has turned to Scotland, and to CIPFA, for specialist counsel in scrutinising the Welsh Government’s 2015/16 Budget
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16 Sep 14
A pledge by UK party leaders to maintain the Barnett Formula for funding public services in Scotland if there is a no vote in Thursday’s independence referendum will increase demands for English...
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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 Aug 14
Plans for the next stage of the Cardiff Capital Region Metro, which aims to create an integrated public transport system for south east Wales by 2030, have been set out by Welsh transport minister...
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20 Aug 14
Devolved administrations in the nations and regions of the UK are increasingly getting the blame when public services go wrong, but Whitehall still carries the can where division of power is murky, a...
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10 Jul 14
Public sector workers across the UK are taking strike action today to protest pay restraint and pension changes.
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11 Jun 14
The government has published the Wales Bill, confirming the planned devolution of financial powers to the Welsh Assembly.
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28 May 14
Scrutiny of local council decisions in Wales has improved to help authorities take spending decisions based on evidence but best practice is not yet applied across the country, the Auditor General...
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7 May 14
The Welsh Government has confirmed it intends to make full use of the direct borrowing powers it will be granted following the passage of the Wales Bill later this year.
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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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17 Apr 14
Public sector funders in Wales paid grants to a rural tourist centre even though they knew the underlying business case was unrealistic, auditors said today
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11 Apr 14
Health services in all four nations of the UK have improved significantly since devolution, a study by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation has found
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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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19 Mar 14
Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt has criticised Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget, saying it was full of missed opportunities and would do nothing for economic growth in Wales.
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3 Mar 14
The Welsh Assembly should take on powers over policing, justice and transport, according to the Commission on Devolution in Wales
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6 Feb 14
If local government restructuring in Wales results in a higher cost base it could prove disastrous. But is hard to see how the process will not end up costing a lot more than it saves
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29 Jan 14
The Wales Audit Office has today said both Carmarthenshire County Council and Pembrokeshire Council acted unlawfully in allowing senior officers to opt-out of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
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27 Jan 14
Councils in Wales are beginning to crack under spending pressures and many need to quickly improve their plans to make efficiency savings amid increasing cuts, the auditor general for Wales has warned
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20 Jan 14
The number of councils in Wales should be cut by around half to save money and ensure they are able to provide quality services amid funding pressures, a report commissioned by the Welsh Government...
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9 Jan 14
The Welsh auditor general has urged local authorities to ensure they have effective financial management arrangements in place after his annual audit review revealed that performance had slipped back
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20 Nov 13
Local communities in England lose £4.1bn each year to the UK’s devolved nations through the ‘outdated’ Barnett Formula for distributing public spending, the Local Government Association has claimed...
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18 Nov 13
Cardiff could be handed control of £3bn in tax revenues, including powers over business rates, UK ministers said today as they accepted almost all of the recommendations of the Silk Commission on...
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1 Nov 13
Councils in England have called for extra financial powers to be given to local authorities following the government’s announcement that a range of taxes would be devolved to the Welsh Assembly.
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1 Nov 13
Wales is to receive a suite of new tax and borrowing powers after UK ministers today announced they had agreed to the Silk Commission’s key recommendations on devolution.
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18 Oct 13
Local authorities in Wales will have their budgets cut by 3.5% next year, as ministers published a provisional finance settlement of £4.26bn.
24 Sep 14The Welsh National Assembly’s Finance Committee has turned to Scotland, and to CIPFA, for specialist counsel in scrutinising the Welsh Government’s 2015/16 Budget
16 Sep 14A pledge by UK party leaders to maintain the Barnett Formula for funding public services in Scotland if there is a no vote in Thursday’s independence referendum will increase demands for English...
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...
6 Feb 14If local government restructuring in Wales results in a higher cost base it could prove disastrous. But is hard to see how the process will not end up costing a lot more than it saves
27 Jan 14Councils in Wales are beginning to crack under spending pressures and many need to quickly improve their plans to make efficiency savings amid increasing cuts, the auditor general for Wales has warned
20 Nov 13Local communities in England lose £4.1bn each year to the UK’s devolved nations through the ‘outdated’ Barnett Formula for distributing public spending, the Local Government Association has claimed...
1 Nov 13Wales is to receive a suite of new tax and borrowing powers after UK ministers today announced they had agreed to the Silk Commission’s key recommendations on devolution.
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