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FINANCE

Policy evaluations under scrutiny

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

The Government has been criticised by a select committee over the amount of evaluation it carries...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Stand-off over counter-fraud strategy

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

A new counter-fraud strategy for councils has been delayed with the Department for Communities an...

WHITEHALL

London's devolution progress 'disappoints'

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Newham’s mayor has told The MJ he is ‘staggeringly disappointed’ with devolution in London so far...

LEGISLATION

Postal vote reminder branded 'needless'

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Returning officers are being forced to write more than 100,000 letters containing postal voting i...

BUSINESS

Councils' own firms in need of tax holiday

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

New council-owned trading companies should be given a three-year corporation tax holiday funded b...

HEALTH

EXCLUSIVE: BCF 'journey must continue' says minister

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Local government minister Kris Hopkins has told The MJ he wants the Better Care Fund to continue ...

FINANCE

Criticism of LGPS gets a hammering

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Local government figures have hit back at a radio documentary that criticised the UK council pens...

BUSINESS

Call for devolution of minimum wage enforcement

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Newham LBC and the GMB trade union have called for the power to enforce underpayment of the natio...

HEALTH

Report: Devolution can help solve NHS crisis

By Dan Peters | 23 March 2015

English devolution can help solve the NHS care and cash crisis, a new report by think-tank Reform...

FINANCE

Hopkins promises to 'respond robustly' to legal threat

By Dan Peters | 20 March 2015

Local government minister Kris Hopkins has said his department will ‘respond robustly’ to Greenwi...

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