The Local Government Association (LGA) has said chancellor George Osborne's plan to cut DCLG funding by £447m in 2014/15 ‘makes no sense, economically'.

In his Autumn Statement last week, Mr Osborne announced that Eland House faced a further 2% budget reduction in the final year of the current Spending Review period – with the sector expecting the cost to be shared between DCLG and local authorities.