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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.
5 May 22Clive 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...
4 May 22A Local Government Pension Scheme pool hopes its new sustainable investment fund will help protect its portfolio from climate change risk.
4 May 22Network 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,...
4 May 22Central 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,...
3 May 22Boris 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”.
3 May 22A 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.
3 May 22Warrington Borough Council's credit rating has been cut due to its high debt and reliance on commercial income, according to ratings agency Moody’s.
29 Apr 22Derbyshire County Council is set to spend more than £1m on hybrid working reforms aimed at delivering millions of pounds of savings.
29 Apr 22A 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.
29 Apr 22Nottingham 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.
28 Apr 22The 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.
28 Apr 22Public bodies could face pressure from growing direct costs alongside impacts from inflated prices for third party suppliers, according to the Office for National Statistics.
28 Apr 22Two 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.
27 Apr 22Poor health including from 'long Covid' will drag economic activity down in the UK by £8bn in this year alone, a think-tank has warned.
27 Apr 22Shropshire Council is set to scale back its capital spending plans by more than £100m by 2025-26 amid concerns over debt servicing costs.
27 Apr 22The 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”,...
26 Apr 22Councils 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.
26 Apr 22Councils are in the dark on how much funding they will receive for adult social care funding under central government reforms, MPs have been told.
25 Apr 22Ministers are reportedly looking to cut between 10 and 20% from quangos’ budgets as part of a government cost-cutting drive.
25 Apr 22A Local Government Pension Scheme investment pool is set to plough £1.2bn into a fund investing in UK infrastructure.
25 Apr 22Liverpool City Council failed to track whether money it paid to local charities from a £1m community fund was meeting its objectives, it has emerged.
22 Apr 22External auditors for Herefordshire Council have criticised its contract management, after it emerged the authority has traded with a dormant company.
21 Apr 22The 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.
21 Apr 22The Financial Reporting Council has fined accountancy firm Deloitte over material misstatements in the 2016 financial statements of outsourcing company Mitie.
