Local government is experiencing significant financial pressures, due in part to rising costs and increased demand across a range of services. We will examine the current and future context for local government finances.
Assessing whether DLUHC is working with government departments and local authorities to maximise their ability to tackle homelessness
Government is funding thousands of levelling up projects across the UK. But many of these deadlines are unlikely to be met.
This report identifies enablers for success in tackling the challenges government faces in its environment and climate change work.
Our report assesses the government’s progress delivering its ambition to increase rates of walking, wheeling and cycling.
This report brings together our learning and identifies eight areas for government departments and national regulators to consider when designing, delivering and improving regulation involving local regulatory delivery.
This report examines the progress made in improving the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements. Delays in completing audited accounts can have significant implications for local accountability and the effective management of public money.
A factual overview of funding provided to the Coventry City of Culture Trust, which became insolvent in March 2023.
This guide provides information on how people can ask questions and raise objections about the accounts of their local authority.
This report looks at BEIS’s oversight of the schemes, its understanding of what the schemes achieved, and how well it worked with local authorities.
This report examines government’s progress in tackling local breaches of NO2 limits and its performance on air quality more broadly.
This report examines progress in establishing Integrated Care Systems in England.
This map tool map lets you explore where auditors have issued non-standard reports locally in the NHS and local government in England.
This financial overview looks at what local government in England spends, how this spending is funded and the effect of changes in recent years.
This new report responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee to examine local government and net zero.
This report examines whether the government secured financial sustainability across the local authority sector during COVID-19.
This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.
Data visualisation describing changes in English local authorities’ financial circumstances over the last decade.
The Comptroller & Auditor General’s report on the 2020-2021 accounts of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
The report examines the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements covering 2019-20.