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20 Mar 09
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20 Mar 09
It is a bit ironic for Steve Bundred of the Audit Commission to be warning us to prepare for cuts in public spending
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20 Mar 09
From a professional viewpoint, I welcome yet another challenge that local government accountancy colleagues will meet with vigour and resolve.
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20 Mar 09
JOHN THORTON | PF’s new monthly column aims to cut through the IT hype and suggest new ways of using technology in public services.
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20 Mar 09
TERESA PAYNE | Great progress has been made by many councils in the seven years since the launch of Comprehensive Performance Assessments.
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20 Mar 09
MIKE THATCHER | How bad can things get? That’s the question on everyone’s lips as unemployment tops the 2 million mark, public borrowing shoots through the roof – and the International Monetary...
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20 Mar 09
DAVID LIPSEY | Thirty years ago, Downing Street (where I then worked) was in the grip of an economic crisis.
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13 Mar 09
PAUL MASON | When International Financial Reporting Standards come into full effect in 2010/11, local authorities will have to include a balance sheet of the position at April 1, 2009.
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13 Mar 09
JOHN HEALEY | Council pensions have had an unfair press, says the local government minister.
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13 Mar 09
MIKE THATCHER | It was billed by the prime minister as an opportunity to rethink the role of public services in light of the ‘biggest global financial market failure in history’.
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13 Mar 09
TONY TRAVERS | There is little doubt that the Office for National Statistics has problems.
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6 Mar 09
I have to say that the cover of the February 20-26 edition of Public Finance (‘Saving Private Finance’) has to go down as the best and cleverest to date
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6 Mar 09
Council tax is a most regressive form of taxation and, despite Alan Whitehead’s reference to the Lyons’ report, it is certainly far from being a yardstick of ability to pay
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6 Mar 09
IAIN MACWHIRTER | The Scottish Labour Party has come into line with the other major parties in support of borrowing and tax-raising powers for Holyrood.
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6 Mar 09
HARRIS BEIDER | US and British regeneration projects face similar deep-seated problems and can learn much from each other.
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6 Mar 09
VIVIENNE RUSSELL | The Comprehensive Performance Assessment is dead. Long live the Comprehensive Area Assessment.
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6 Mar 09
PETER RIDDELL | The media is full of gloomy stories about budget cutbacks and redundancies as the economy worsens.
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27 Feb 09
Reading your recent cover line ‘Busy doing nothing?’ on the Tories’ alternative economic strategy, I was rather looking forward to what I thought would be a forensic analysis from Policy Exchange of...
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27 Feb 09
ANDREW COLLINGE | In last week’s PF, Labour MP Alan Whitehead proposed a points-based alternative to the council tax.
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27 Feb 09
COLIN TALBOT | The Cabinet secretary believes that mandarins’ crisis management abilities will mitigate the effects of the recession on the civil service.
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27 Feb 09
MIKE THATCHER | Taxpayers in England and Wales are far from happy. Not only are their jobs on the line and their homes at risk of repossession, but they also face council tax increases equivalent...
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27 Feb 09
PHILIP JOHNSTON | In normal times, the Budget would be taking place in under a fortnight. The second week in March has become the Treasury’s favoured date over the years, to the annoyance of MPs...
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20 Feb 09
CAREY OPPENHEIM | As unemployment rises, it is easy to point the finger at foreign workers.
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20 Feb 09
NIGEL KEOGH | The government this month launched a consultation on consolidating regulations for local government pension funds.
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20 Feb 09
MIKE THATCHER | Blink, and you might have missed it. This week the Conservatives launched Control shift, their long-trailed green paper on returning power to local communities. It generated only a...
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