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Rowley: ‘I need local government to be squeaky clean with money and not experiment’

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Councils’ budgets must be “efficient” with taxpayers’ money, as this is “not the time for local government to start experimenting”, Lee Rowley has said.

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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