Spring Budget 2024
The last Spring Budget before the General Election did not contain any measures to adequately fund the local services people rely on every day, the LGA has concluded.
The last Spring Budget before the General Election did not contain any measures to adequately fund the local services people rely on every day, the LGA has concluded.
Government plans for asylum accommodation will cost more than using hotels, and new large sites are housing fewer people than planned, according to the National Audit Office.
The LGA is proposing reforms to the Right to Buy (RTB) scheme in England to prevent the year-on-year net loss of social housing stock.
Seven in 10 people believe supermarkets and retailers use too much packaging, according to research by YouGov for the LGA.
The Government is being urged to extend the Household Support Fund (HSF) to help protect vulnerable households across the UK.
The Government has said its public health grant allocations to councils, published in February, will deliver a real-terms increase of more than 4 per cent over 2023/24 and 2024/25.
Powers to ban pavement parking should be extended across England to make streets safer, councils have said.