Dan Peters 17 July 2025

EXCLUSIVE: £8m Oflog 'waste'

EXCLUSIVE: £8m Oflog waste image
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Ministers have been warned against imposing more expensive, top-down performance indicators after it emerged millions was spent before a short-lived local government watchdog was scrapped.

The MJ can reveal the Government has admitted the total spend on the Office for Local Government (Oflog) across 2023-24 and 2024-25 was £8.25m before Labour took the decision to close the Conservative project.

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