Recent speculation that the UK may be heading toward negative interest rates prompts questions for treasury officers managing local authority funds at LATIF. Speculation is rife that the UK may[…]
Additional research: Atharva Deshmukh. As the chancellor delivered his spending review the local government borrowing terrain was rocked by a PWLB rate cut of 100bps despite bond issues showing signs[…]
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee say the running of the Towns Fund is opaque and “not impartial” . With a bulging kitty of £3.6bn the government’s Towns Fund—a project[…]
Investors are increasingly focused on using their assets to aid the battle against global warming, and the LGPS is no exception. In a recent development, the Northern LGPS pool signed[…]
The future lending terms for local government borrowing has become a sensitive topic. Room151.co.uk brought experts together to explore the issue. The debate over councils borrowing from PWLB for commercial[…]
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says local government in England still needs an extra £2bn to see it through the pandemic. One way of dealing with financial needs, it argues,[…]
Local government could need as much as £10bn in total extra funding if it is to manage the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown, according to one of the UK’s leading[…]
Measures proposed to constrain borrowing by local authorities from the Public Work Loans Board go too far and are “extreme”, according to Gary Fielding, corporate director, strategic resources and section[…]
As the country enters a second week of lockdown to counter the Covid-19 pandemic, Richard Harbord considers the key issues at the heart of local authority finances. In some ways[…]
Dan Hawthorn, Haringey’s director of housing is moving on to pastures new at Kensington & Chelsea. Speaking to Room151, he reflects on the prospects for council housing in the current[…]
