RIEPs may have to rethink plans
Author: Local Government Chronicle |
Regional improvement and efficiency partnerships (RIEPs) could be forced to review their plans after being told to focus more on capital expenditure programmes.
While the RIEPs are believed to have secured the second year of funding as originally planned, 20% of the 67.5m on offer must be invested capital expenditure rather than purely revenue, as it had been in the first year.
Officials have indicated the change must be made despite the chair of the Local Government Association improvement board, David Parsons, writing to the Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG) urging it not to include a capital element.
Improvement & Development Agency programme officer Keith Beaumont, who is in charge of the RIEPs programme, said some RIEPs were likely to review their plans.