Inflexible Local Authority Funding
Over-reliance on bid-based, inflexible funding mechanisms for local authorities, preventing them from effectively addressing local needs.
4 items
1 source
4 inquiries
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Inflexible Local Authority Funding has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
4 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (4)
MAI-159 — Consider funding arrangements for police services
Recommendation: The Inquiry heard evidence that the impact of public funding cuts fell disproportionately hard on metropolitan police services, such as Greater Manchester Police, compared with non-metropolitan services. In the event that public funding cuts are in the future considered necessary …
Speaker not recorded. Source: Cabinet Office, Manchester Arena Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard (government response status), 14 November 2025
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
RHI-20 — Flexible Expenditure Rules
Recommendation: Public expenditure rules should be sufficiently flexible so that false economies can be avoided. In order to deliver a policy objective, Departments should not be required to choose a more expensive option in overall terms because they cannot use the …
Words of: Northern Ireland Executive, Executive Response to the RHI Inquiry Report Recommendations and Action Plan, Annex A, 7 October 2021
Gov response: These recommendations can be accepted in full. It is important to note that public expenditure in NI is governed by the UK Budgeting rules set by HM Treasury. These rules mean that there is limited …
Accepted
SP42 — Decisions based on assessed need not inflexible criteria
Recommendation: Lancashire County Council should review its processes and training to ensure decisions regarding children and families are made on the basis of assessed need rather than inflexible criteria such as duration or ease of arranging services.
Words of: HM Government, Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry (CP 1623), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, 2 July 2026
Gov response: There are a further 27 recommendations that require delivery by organisations that sit outside central government. The government has written to all national, regional and local organisations responsible for delivering recommendations to highlight the findings …
Accepted
P2-46 — Local authority funding for security expedited
Recommendation: There must be a process to ensure that, where there is a requirement for funding to strengthen mortuary security, it is expedited and considered at the highest levels within the local authority.
Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Interim update on government progress in responding to the Fuller inquiry phase 2 report, 16 December 2025
Gov response: The government has agreed to accept in principle 43 recommendations subject to further work to determine the full impact of these recommendations.
Accepted in part
In progress