Pickles gives CSR hint on place-based budgets

摘要

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has provided the strongest indication yet that chancellor George Osborne is ready to introduce place-based budgeting through next month's Comprehensive Spending Review.Mr Pickles told the Commons' CLG select committee on 13 September that the chancellor, who will deliver his CSR on 20 October, is 'as keen as mustard' on the concept of place-based budgeting, likely to become known as 'community budgets' under the coalition government.