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Budget: fiscal devolution could be undermined without ‘new deal’ for councils

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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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But the Local Government Association (LGA) said a “new deal” for local government was also needed for fiscal devolution to succeed, as “genuine devolution