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BUSINESS RATES
Rates repatriation revolt collapses
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2020
An attempt to repatriate the setting of business rates to Scottish councils has collapsed.
FINANCE
'Hidden cuts' in Scottish Budget
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2020
Council leaders have complained about ‘hidden cuts’ in a Scottish Budget that will deliver £11.3b...
FINANCE
Scottish councils' improvements 'stalling'
By Martin Ford | 31 January 2020
Spending on culture and leisure, economic development, and roads all fell by around a quarter las...
FINANCE
Watchdog concerns over sustainability and services at Highland Council
By Martin Ford | 24 January 2020
The Accounts Commission expects the council to ‘demonstrate improvement in the next 12 months’ by...
FINANCE
Row over SNP funding of councils
By Dan Peters | 23 January 2020
Local government is ‘treated far better in Scotland than it is elsewhere in the UK,’ the Scottish...
WHITEHALL
Brown calls for 'constitutional revolution'
By Paul Marinko | 21 January 2020
Gordon Brown has called for a ‘constitutional revolution,’ with a series of citizens’ assemblies ...
WHITEHALL
Dozens of children in care sent north of border
By Paul Marinko | 20 January 2020
English councils are sending children in care hundreds of miles from their homes to secure accomm...
FINANCE
Scottish Government resists business rates devolution plan
By Dan Peters | 16 January 2020
Public finance minister Kate Forbes has hit out at opposition proposals to devolve control of bus...
BUSINESS
Scottish councils sign £700m contract to 'transform waste'
By William Eichler | 16 January 2020
Five Scottish councils have signed a contract that will divert up to 190,000 tonnes of black bag ...
FINANCE
Scottish City Deals 'lack aims and objectives'
By Martin Ford | 15 January 2020
Watchdogs have questioned the transparency and oversight of Scotland’s £5.2bn City Deals.
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