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Queen’s Speech 2019, Queen Elizabeth II delivers Queen's Speech 2019Long-delayed reforms to social care were included among the government’s proposed legislative agenda announced in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech.
Proposals for a green paper on social care were originally announced in the March 2017 Budget, but have been delayed numerous times since.
Yesterday’s announcement holds out the prospect of legislation in this session of Parliament, if the government – which is currently without a majority – is able to command the support of MPs for any proposals it brings forward.
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...Whitehall today threw a hand grenade into local authority borrowing plans by announcing a whole percentage point increase in the rate of borrowing from the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB).
Councillors in South Oxfordshire are have been ordered not to take the district’s spatial plan back to the drawing board amid warnings the move could jeopardise hundreds of millions of pounds in government infrastructure funding for the county.
Private sector and institutional lenders have been quick to react after the Treasury this week priced itself out of the long-term local government lending market.
The Society of District Council Treasurers has asked the Treasury to create a new Public Works Loan Board discount rate, as councils reassess the viability of their regeneration and housing[…]
This week’s Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) rate rise has boosted hopes that the UK Municipal Bonds Agency (UKMBA) can finally issue its first bond, as the organisation announced the[…]
by Tom Roberts, head of strategic investment, LGIM Real Assets The government estate is made up of hundreds of thousands of UK assets; from railways ports and prisons to hospitals[…]
Optimism bias and a culture of limited transparency led to an £11.7m overspend on a new academy school in Northamptonshire, according to an internal investigation. A report presented to Northamptonshire[…]
A London council is set to approve a loan of £110.5m to one of its wholly-owned companies to help purchase a residential block to provide investment income and house its[…]
The government is proposing to compensate councils with negative revenue support grant (RSG) in 2020/21, it has announced in a consultation on the distribution of next year’s local government finance[…]
