I’ve blogged previously about how the Salford City Council leadership were left high-and-dry by the Government’s withdrawal of business growth grants (known as LABGI) to local Councils.
Now it has emerged that one of the possible reasons for the LABGI withdrawal is that our Labour Government is far too incompetent to oversee the administration properly:
The government has overpaid a council by £2m after it got the wrong Newcastle.
The money, a reward for promoting local firms, was given to Newcastle Borough Council in Staffordshire instead of Newcastle upon Tyne City Council. The borough council was given more than £2.5m instead of just £600,000 and has been asked to repay the difference.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has described the situation as a “regrettable error”.
Unbelievable.
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