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NAO urges close watch on commercialisation

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Auditors have been encouraged to scrutinise council accounts to ensure that balance sheets are not being manipulated in order to justify commercial ventures. The

Business rates will be fully locally retained by the end of the decade in place of government grants, the chancellor has pledged, as the roadmap for fiscal devolution was set out.

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