Aileen Murphie
Aileen Murphie is director, MHCLG and local government value for money at the National Audit Office
Is commercial property one risk too far?
Councils with commercial property portfolios financed by borrowing could face additional challenges in the coming months, says Aileen Murphie – and these will test the quality of their risk mitigation and management.
Learning lessons from LEPs
Aileen Murphie examines the role, progress and development of local enterprise partnerships from the eyes of the National Audit Office.
Patterns of change
In the third of a series of articles on the financial sustainability of local authorities, Aileen Murphie focuses on the experiences of different types of councils in delivering and resourcing their capital programmes.
The growth of inter-authority lending
In the second of a series of articles from the National Audit Office unpicking the complex and often overlooked world of local authority capital expenditure and resourcing, Aileen Murphie explains the growth of inter-authority lending
Servicing councils’ debt costs
Aileen Murphie examines the latest National Audit Office research on the cost of servicing council debt, the mounting pressure on local authorities and which areas are being hit hardest by these fees
