Council funding 'too complicated'

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%The number of separate streams of local council funding has doubled since a Government-commissioned review called for them to be reduced two years ago, town hall leaders claimed.

Research by the Local Government Association (LGA) found there were now 124 individual pots of money, twice the number when ex-cabinet minister Lord Heseltine delivered his call for streamlining to promote regional growth.