The Act involves ‘Local Spending Reports’. What are these?
An important part of the Act is a new requirement on the Government to ensure the publication of information about public expenditure in different areas and localities across England. The aim is to give people a better picture of how public money is currently spent, and encourage ideas for spending it more effectively, and in ways which contribute better to sustainability. At the moment there is little easily accessible information available on the geographic distribution of all public expenditure, at anything lower than a regional level.
