Authorities should become credit providers to boost public resources

More local authorities could provide credit to help other public services, a council chief who has overseen a £100m loan to a NHS trust, has suggested.

By MJ Correspondent | 11 June 2014

More local authorities could provide credit to help other public services, a council chief who has overseen a £100m loan to a NHS trust, has suggested.

The council did not take on any extra borrowing in order to provide the loan. 

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