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ECONOMIC GROWTH
The words 'light touch' should never refer to public expenditure
By Abdool Kara | 06 February 2018
Abdool Kara on local enterprise partnership accountability and transparency.
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Government knew provisional settlement was wrong
By Dan Peters | 23 January 2018
Whitehall officials rushed out the provisional local government finance settlement days before Ch...
BUSINESS
Former LEP chair accused of cover-up over deal
By Mark Conrad | 23 January 2018
MPs have accused an ex-local enterprise partnership (LEP) chairman of a ‘cover up’ after he refus...
FINANCE
The MJ/NAO round table: Fallout from the Budget
By Michael Burton | 11 January 2018
The MJ and the National Audit Office have launched a series of round table debates with local aut...
FINANCE
We need a system of fairer funding fit for the 21st Century
By Nick Rushton | 12 December 2017
Responding to recent challenges to fair funding lobbying efforts by the County Councils' Network,...
WHITEHALL
Auditors in fresh LEP warning
By Sam Clayden | 30 November 2017
A National Audit Office (NAO) report on the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough (GCGP) LEP has...
FINANCE
Concentrate on consensus
By Stephen Houghton | 29 November 2017
Chair of the Special Interest Group for Municipal Authorities, Sir Stephen Houghton, urges local ...
FINANCE
Fair funding feud: Let's put the whole truth on the table
By Tony McArdle | 21 November 2017
In response to criticisms of county council's fair funding lobbying tactics, Tony McArdle kicks b...
WHITEHALL
Counties in plea for 'life raft' funding
By Mark Conrad | 20 November 2017
County councils today pleaded for ‘life raft’ funding over the next two years or warned a ‘depres...
FINANCE
Abdool Kara: Councils are being economical with the truth
By Abdool Kara | 15 November 2017
Different council groups are lobbying for a bigger proportion of government funding as ministers ...
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- Shadow minister warns devolution Bill will 'die' without talks
- Ahead of LGR decisions, tribalism hasn't had the chance to take hold in Norfolk
- Call for developers to be hit with stick
- DCN rebrands to Local Councils Network amid reorganisation
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- Shadow minister warns devolution Bill will 'die' without talks
- Ahead of LGR decisions, tribalism hasn't had the chance to take hold in Norfolk
- Call for developers to be hit with stick
- DCN rebrands to Local Councils Network amid reorganisation
- A rocket booster has been fired under the tax devo debate
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