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  • Commercial property and GLA grants push council capital expenditure 8% higher

    February 20, 2019

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    February 20, 2019

  • Barking and Dagenham to double external borrowing

    February 19, 2019

  • Ashfield raises property stake to £104m

    February 19, 2019

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    February 18, 2019

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    February 18, 2019

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    • in 151 News · Funding
    • — 18 Dec, 2014

    Councils to pare back to core services as late settlement bites again

    Councils have reacted with dismay to today’s provisional Local Government Finance Settlement, which outlined an 8.8% cut from central government funding for next year. The settlement, unveiled today, means that[…]

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    • — 18 Dec, 2014

    News Roundup: Co-op fails stress test, BGC/RP Martin deal, CFOs expect service cuts, Senior officer pay questioned

    Co-op fails BofE stress test The Co-operative Bank is the only bank to fail a stress test of the UK banking system carried out by the Bank of England. The[…]

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    • in Graham Liddell · Technical
    • — 18 Dec, 2014

    Ask the Auditor: Code of Accounting Practice needs a major overhaul

    After six years of leading technical teams providing technical guidance, training and advice to auditors and local authority accountants, Graham is leaving Grant Thornton UK LLP to join Brighton and[…]

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    • in LGPSi
    • — 18 Dec, 2014

    Graeme Muir: Lies, damned lies, and statistics

    Graeme Muir is a partner with Barnett Waddingham. Terry Crossley contributed to the writing of this blog. With the regularity of the Gregorian calendar, Michael Johnson has issued yet again[…]

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    • — 18 Dec, 2014

    Richard Harbord: The difficult year ahead

    2014 was the year when it became apparent that the financial difficulties facing local authorities were only at midpoint at best. It was the year the new pension regulations came[…]

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    • — 17 Dec, 2014

    Mandy Bretherton: Bleak winter for local government demands new skills in finance

    Mandy Bretherton is Technical Manager at CIPFA, responsible for Treasury Management and Adult Social Care Panels. By the end of 2014 less than 40% of the government’s fiscal consolidation plan had[…]

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    • — 17 Dec, 2014

    Stephen Sheen: Audit and accounting crystal ball

    Stephen Sheen is the managing partner of Ichabod’s Industries, a consultancy providing technical support to local government. From an accounts and audit point of view, 2014 was notable for sending[…]

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    • — 17 Dec, 2014

    Scale of investment unclear as LGA announces bond agency ‘launch phase’

    A total of 48 councils have now signed up to become investors in the agency, up from 38 who had signed up in September when it was also announced that[…]

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    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 16 Dec, 2014

    Mark Horsfield: Responding to the new risk landscape

    As part of a series of commentaries by Room151 readers, looking back over 2014 and forward to the year ahead, Mark Horsfield, director of Arlingclose examines the rapidly changing nature of[…]

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    • — 15 Dec, 2014

    James Bevan: Beneath the surface of declining oil prices

    The received wisdom is that the recent decline in oil and other commodity prices should provide a boost to global growth by increasing household real incomes in countries such as[…]

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