LUHC Committee demands answers from Michael Gove on local authorities’ financial health

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• Call for stability: Tom Wilkinson urges government to ditch ‘rabbit out of the hat’ approach(26 views)
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• Average council tax rate 5.1% higher than last year(18 views)
• Birmingham plans 600 redundancies as £300m budget gap ‘may rise’(15 views)