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Aileen Murphie

Aileen Murphie is director, MHCLG and local government value for money at the National Audit Office

Articles by Aileen Murphie

Is commercial property one risk too far?

By Aileen Murphie | 27 May 2020

Councils with commercial property portfolios financed by borrowing could face additional challeng...

Learning lessons from LEPs

By Aileen Murphie | 14 August 2019

Aileen Murphie examines the role, progress and development of local enterprise partnerships from ...

Patterns of change

By Aileen Murphie | 22 March 2017

In the third of a series of articles on the financial sustainability of local authorities, Aileen...

The growth of inter-authority lending

By Aileen Murphie | 24 January 2017

In the second of a series of articles from the National Audit Office unpicking the complex and o...

Servicing councils' debt costs

By Aileen Murphie | 26 October 2016

Aileen Murphie examines the latest National Audit Office research on the cost of servicing counci...