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The Spending Review 2021

The Editorial Team

Building back better means building back local.

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Spending Review 2020

The Editorial Team

The Chancellor’s statement offered councils some short-term financial certainty, but no long-term solutions to chronic problems such as adult social care.

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Time to look ahead

Councillor James Jamieson

Perhaps it was inevitable that this year’s government review of public spending would get downgraded from a comprehensive, three-year plan to the one-year Spending Review Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered last month.

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Spending Review: cash pressures remain

The Editorial Team

Amid gloomy economic forecasts, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his Spending Review, which he said aimed to “protect the public services most affected by coronavirus”.

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What was missing in the Spending Review

Councillor Nick Forbes CBE

At the start of this crisis, everybody in local government heard the same message from the Chancellor – that councils should do “whatever it takes” to tackle coronavirus.

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Spending Review falls short

Councillor Marianne Overton MBE

Our Independent Group members have been very clear on what is needed from the Spending Review, starting with certainty. Thus, the Chancellor’s statement covering only one year falls short.

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Spending Round 2019

The Editorial Team

The Chancellor has set out a £3.5 billion funding package for councils, covering cost and demand pressures in the coming financial year.

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Spending Round delivers certainty

Councillor James Jamieson

The Chancellor’s Spending Round has provided councils with much of the certainty they need about how they will be funded next year – as well as £3.5 billion for our vital local services.

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£3.5bn boost for council services

The Editorial Team

The Government has announced a funding package of more than £3.5 billion for local services in 2020/21, as part of a one-year Spending Round.

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One-year Spending Round announced

The Editorial Team

The Government has confirmed that a full three-year Spending Review will be delayed until 2020, with a one-year ‘fast track’ Spending Round to be completed in September.

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