Briefings and responses

No leaseholder should have to pay the costs of making their homes safe and the Secretary of State’s threat to use the legal system to ensure developers meet their responsibilities to leaseholders is a positive step in the right direction. However, leaseholders are not the only innocent victims of the construction industry’s failure to build safe homes.

The LGA has four core asks around the Building Safety Bill.

Local government’s delivery of public services during the response to COVID-19 demonstrates the value of place-based leadership.

Our Budget 2021 On-the-Day briefing summarises the key announcements for councils and provides an initial LGA view

Our on-the-day briefing highlights the main announcements and their impact on local government.

The Chancellor, Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, delivered the 2018 Budget on 29 October. There were a number of tax and spending announcements of relevance to local government, and the Chancellor outlined the trajectory of overall public spending for the 2019 Spending Review.  

The Chancellor’s Budget, delivered on Monday 29 October, provided a formal update on the state of the economy, responded to the new economic and fiscal forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility and announced the Government’s fiscal measures.

The key messages in our 'On the Day' briefing for local government

Read our 'On the day' briefing for local government.

The LGA has worked with Government and Parliament to raise councils’ ongoing concerns over residents’ lack of access to fast and reliable broadband. Many rural areas, in particular, struggle with speeds of less than 2Mbps while others are unable to receive broadband at all.