Scrutiny guidance update

Posted on 02/01/2019 by Ed Hammond | local government scrutiny guidance, scrutiny guidance

Happy New Year! Well, 2018 came and went and you will have noticed that the scrutiny guidance is still conspicuous by its absence. Government undertook to the Select Committee that guidance would be published by the end of the calendar year. I’m afraid I can’t provide any certainty about the likely publication date – we aren’t privy to any information from civil servants about the issue. As far as we’re aware the text has been finalised, but all of these kinds of publications have to go through a cross-Government review and signoff process, and we’re not sure whether this has ...