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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”,...
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.
Warwick District Council and Stratford-on-Avon Council have scrapped plans for a unitary authority over concerns surrounding a housing subsidiary company.
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.
The Financial Reporting Council has fined accountancy firm Deloitte over material misstatements in the 2016 financial statements of outsourcing company Mitie.
Durham County Council is set to sell a new £50m office which it has not yet occupied, to help reduce costs as the authority moves to more flexible working.
Local authorities in England have urged residents to remain vigilant over cold calling scams linked to the £150 energy rebates that councils are overseeing this year.
Proposals to abolish section 106 charges in favour of a new infrastructure tax could disincentivise investment in poorer regions, working against 'levelling up', according to experts....
