Uncertainty does not bode well for the settlement

摘要

One would hope that with a former communities secretary and an ex-local government minister in charge at the Treasury there might be some understanding, if not sympathy, for council treasurers trying to plan their 2020/21 budgets. After all, it was only in February that then local government minister Rishi Sunak promised 'to get more certainty'. In his new job as Treasury chief secretary he is in a better position to provide it.