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5 May 22
Clive Betts, chair of Parliament's Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee has urged the government to provide additional funding to help authorities mitigate services pressures stemming from...
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4 May 22
A Local Government Pension Scheme pool hopes its new sustainable investment fund will help protect its portfolio from climate change risk.
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4 May 22
Network Rail could be forced to make yearly cuts of around £100m in maintenance spending up to 2023-24, leading to a reduction in services and greater safety risks for passengers,...
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4 May 22
Central government inaction on giving councils in England the ability to hold remote meetings is preventing authorities from reducing the financial and environmental cost of transport,...
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3 May 22
Boris Johnson is “very excited” by the prospect of allowing people who live in housing association properties to buy their homes at a discounted price, in plans critics have called “hare-brained”.
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3 May 22
A lack of comprehensive data is hampering the government’s ability to track how funding cuts have impacted councils in England, according to the Institute for Government.
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3 May 22
Warrington Borough Council's credit rating has been cut due to its high debt and reliance on commercial income, according to ratings agency Moody’s.
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29 Apr 22
Derbyshire County Council is set to spend more than £1m on hybrid working reforms aimed at delivering millions of pounds of savings.
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29 Apr 22
A county council has decided to write off more than £2m in overpayments made to retired members of its pension scheme, saying to recover them would not be cost effective.
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29 Apr 22
Nottingham City Council will terminate a contract with a subsidiary company managing its housing stock, after an external investigation found it misspent millions of pounds of authority funding.
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28 Apr 22
The Treasury will spend £25m on a 'fraud squad' aimed at recovering funds wrongly given out in Covid-19 support schemes, with hopes the team will be up and running by the summer.
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28 Apr 22
Public bodies could face pressure from growing direct costs alongside impacts from inflated prices for third party suppliers, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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28 Apr 22
Two West Midlands councils are set to return more than £900,000 of government funding for green homes upgrades, after a shortage of labour and skills meant it could not be spent, it has emerged.
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27 Apr 22
Poor health including from 'long Covid' will drag economic activity down in the UK by £8bn in this year alone, a think-tank has warned.
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27 Apr 22
Shropshire Council is set to scale back its capital spending plans by more than £100m by 2025-26 amid concerns over debt servicing costs.
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27 Apr 22
The government’s apparent lack of long-term plan to recover overdue debt issued via its £47bn Covid-19 business loan scheme means fraudsters could “walk away with billions of taxpayers’ money”,...
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26 Apr 22
Councils received £700m more than they spent last year, down 90% on the 2021-22 surplus, while the overall public sector deficit fell by more than a half.
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26 Apr 22
Councils are in the dark on how much funding they will receive for adult social care funding under central government reforms, MPs have been told.
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25 Apr 22
Ministers are reportedly looking to cut between 10 and 20% from quangos’ budgets as part of a government cost-cutting drive.
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25 Apr 22
A Local Government Pension Scheme investment pool is set to plough £1.2bn into a fund investing in UK infrastructure.
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25 Apr 22
Liverpool City Council failed to track whether money it paid to local charities from a £1m community fund was meeting its objectives, it has emerged.
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22 Apr 22
External auditors for Herefordshire Council have criticised its contract management, after it emerged the authority has traded with a dormant company.
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22 Apr 22
Warwick District Council and Stratford-on-Avon Council have scrapped plans for a unitary authority over concerns surrounding a housing subsidiary company.
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21 Apr 22
The government failed to collect data to determine whether more than £400m spent on Covid-19 travel measures delivered value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
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21 Apr 22
The Financial Reporting Council has fined accountancy firm Deloitte over material misstatements in the 2016 financial statements of outsourcing company Mitie.