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‘Real risk’ that LGR savings overstated

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Savings promised under the latest wave of local government reorganisation (LGR) may have been exaggerated as the business cases underpinning it failed to account for the shake-up in council funding, according to Lorna Baxter, president of the Association of Local Authority Treasurers (ALATS).

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Because LGR bids were put together before the impact of the government’s fair funding review was known, the potential efficiencies may have been inflated,

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