Grant‐related expenditures: An invisible push towards efficiency in local government

Abstract

For two years, local authorities have had to cope with a new system of measuring spending need, devised largely as a reaction to the complexities of the old. Here, for the first time, is a positive, long‐run rationale for the change. Though furnished by a civil servant closely involved in the reform, the views expressed are his own and should not be attributed to any Department of State.