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18 hours ago · The cross-party organisation also pointed out that 18 councils required exceptional financial support (EFS) to set their 2024-25 budgets. According to a survey of all chief finance officers in England conducted by the LGA in January, 25% of the 105 respondents said their council had either applied for EFS to support their 2025-26 budget or …

17 hours ago · Experts at KMPG, hired on behalf of the Surrey district and boroughs, created a short list of 15 proposed geographical footprints that meet a minimum threshold of 300,000 people and aim to divide the housing pressures, demographics, financial pressures and council tax rates as evenly as possible.

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3 days ago · The District Councils’ Network, which is among those making such an argument, used freedom of information requests to expose the government’s lack of an evidence base for this figure. It seems that, and the “billions” of savings ministers have indicated they expect reorganisation to deliver come from a County Councils Network commissioned report from 2020.

4 days ago · Essentially, the white paper sets out two aims: the creation of a new layer of subregional governance across England with mayoral strategic authorities responsible for elements of transport, planning and economic development, and an ambition to reorganise two-tier local government and create unitary councils everywhere in the country.

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Oct 4, 2024 · Respondents also support greater national oversight of local government audit, with a 67% approval rate but 19% said they were unsure. As at 30 June, 559 audit opinions are outstanding according to Public Sector Audit Appointments with three external audits outstanding at one local authority from 2015-16.