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Delivering Good Governance: Guidance Notes for Policing Bodies in England and Wales (2016 Edition)

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These guidance notes are intended to assist police and crime commissioners (PCCs), chief constables (CCs) and associated organisations and systems – strategic alliances and other collaboration arrangements, partnerships and other vehicles established by PCCs – in reviewing the effectiveness of their own governance arrangements by reference to best practice and using self-assessment.

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Finance And General Statistics 2016/17 Estimates (Excel)

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This publication is the recognised source of summary information on local authority budgets, council tax and national non-domestic rates.
An analysis of each authority’s service expenditure is provided together with information on the level of specific grants, revenue support grant and the amount of expenditure funded by national non-domestic rates and council tax.
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Accounting for Local Government Pension Scheme Management Expenses (2016 Edition)

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The cost of administering the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has come under increasingly intense scrutiny in recent years, culminating in the DCLG Call for Evidence on the future structure of the LGPS. The purpose of this publication is to update the 2014 guidance in the light of practitioners’ experiences to date, and to provide additional practical guidance on some of the more complex areas.

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Planning and Development Statistics 2014/15 Actuals (Excel)

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This publication includes analysis of estimated net revenue expenditure per thousand population analysed between: planning policy, development control, appeals, enforcement, environmental improvement, education and conservation.
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Revenue Collection Statistics 2014/15 Actuals (Excel)

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This publication contains a detailed analysis of authorities’ council tax and national non-domestic rates operations.
It includes analyses of the amounts collectable, current and previous years’ arrears, court costs, the number of accounts raised and the methods of collection, the numbers of council tax benefit recipients, exemptions and discounts, the number, type and rateable value of non domestic hereditaments, enforcement action taken and information on the type of arrangements for service provision.
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