Parish payments reform
Progress continues to be made in the NALC campaign for long awaited reform to the way in which parish councils can make payments.
The Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis MP made a written ministerial statement on 10 September committing Government to laying a Legislative Reform Order to repeal s150(5) and the two signature rule when both Houses are sitting after recess. The statement is on the Parliamentary website at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130910/wmstext/130910m0001.htm
The Joint Practitioners Advisory group are currently working on the new Safeguarding Public Money section of the Local Councils Practitioners' Guide which will support the LRO.
(Taken from CEO report to NALC National Council 1st October 2013)
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