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A list of the best and worst councils in England has been revealed, with bankrupt Nottingham at the bottom and Torridge in Devon at the top.
Data published by a new agency, the Office for Local Government (Oflog), lays bare the huge variation in public sector efficiency. So how does YOUR council rank? Use our interactive tool below to find out.
Some council recycling rates are twice as good as others while some councils fail to process half of planning applications on time but others are not late on a single one.
Oflog was set up last year to improve services by providing performance data on local authorities.
Its findings - published ahead of the local elections on Thursday - show that since 2021, six have declared themselves in effect bankrupt, the Times reported.
Fifty owe at least ten times their core budget and 34 are spending more than £1 in every £3 they receive in tax and government grants on interest payments.
Oflog measures councils in 27 categories for five main areas: waste management, corporate and finance, adult social care, planning and roads.
Bottom of the list was Labour-run Nottingham council which declared itself bankrupt in November. It was in the bottom five per cent for waste processing, financial management and roads, the paper said.
It was also in the bottom 25 per cent for planning and the bottom 40 per cent for social care. It only recycled a quarter of waste, while the best recycled nearly two thirds.
Nottingham had three times as
