The Government's explanation for how it allocated £300m of transitional grant is ‘wafer thin,' critics claimed this week after a National Audit Office (NAO) probe was finally published.

Nottingham City Council deputy leader, Graham Chapman, whose attempts to get hold of the underlying detail behind the transitional funding have been repeatedly blocked by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) over the past year, described the findings of the NAO investigation as ‘worrying'.