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Local Government Finance system: Overview and challenges

Inquiry

After a series of PAC reports on the state of local authority finances over the last year including on the system of local government audit; local authority exposure to risky commercial investment  and potential losses in Covid support schemes; and the overall sustainability of the local authority finances, the Committee will question senior officials at the Treasury and newly renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) on the challenges now facing local government as we enter the long economic recovery from the Covid19 pandemic.

If you have evidence on these issues please submit it here by Monday 22 November.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Monday 22 November 2021.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Thirty-Fourth Report - Local Government Finance System: Overview and Challenges
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Correspondence from Sarah Healey, Permanent Secretary, Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, re Treasury Minute – Thirty-Fourth Report of Session 2021/22, dated 15 March 2023
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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Thirty Fourth report from Session 2021-22
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Correspondence

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Correspondence from Jeremy Pocklington CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, re the committee’s report Local Government Finance System Overview and Challenges, dated 4 April 2022
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Correspondence from Jeremy Pocklington CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, re Lessons Learnt, dated 11 February 2022
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Correspondence from Catherine Frances Director General, Local Government, Strategy & Analysis Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, re Local Government Finance System Overview and challenges, dated 10 December 2021
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Oral evidence transcripts

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Written evidence

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ICAEW (LFS0001)
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Local Government Association (LGA) (LFS0002)
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