Local government secretary Sajid Javid has ordered an independent review after mistakes were made by his department when calculating business rates retention levels.
Council tax should be scrapped and replaced with a charge calculated using more up-to-date home values, a Resolution Foundation report out today has said.
A group of MPs has told the government to “get its act together” regarding the governance of public-private partnerships set up to boost local economies.
Northamptonshire County Council has accepted the findings of a government-commissioned report that it should be split up and two new unitary councils created.
Northamptonshire County Council should get a “new start” by being split into two separate councils following financial mismanagement, a government-commissioned inspection has said today.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is planning to consult on a statutory override to aspects of a new accounting rule intended to improve the financial reporting of investments.
The government will find it hard to increase spending on public services even if it wishes to do so, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned after yesterday’s Spring Statement.
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s hint that public spending could rise in the autumn will not help those dealing with strained budgets now, CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has warned.
The economy is expected to grow more strongly than expected this year and the public finances will continue on the road to recovery, chancellor Philip Hammond revealed in his inaugural Spring...
Chancellor Philip Hammond has brought forward the next business rates revaluation by a year to 2021, after which three-yearly reviews will take effect.
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has said he is minded to approve a unitary reorganisation of councils in Buckinghamshire, less than a fortnight after he agreed a change to unitary status in Dorset.
Conditions in the National Health Service have worsened in the last year and staff feel unable to provide the standard of care they have been trained to deliver.
