I don't want to argue because I respect your views, but just to quote from the budget report from my councils 2008 budget report
This Council is to receive the
lowest ever increase in general Government Grant of 1% in
2008/09, 0.5% in 2009/10 and 0.6% in 2010/11. The 1% increase
falls to 0.4% when taking into account funding previously paid
separately to the Council now included within the Grant
settlement and is set against a
background where CPI (consumer price index) and RPI (retail
price index) are currently 2.2% and 4.1%
So as you rightly point out and very fairly I must say, the Labour system was disproportionately harsh against southern councils. In real terms my council had already had 3 years of cuts before austerity.
And this is from this years budget.
The Council has seen its general government grant, the Local Government Settlement Funding Assessment, fall by more than £3.3m or 50% over the five-year period 2011/12 to 2015/16 with further cuts expected in future years.
of the twelve district councils in Kent, Tonbridge and Malling continues to receive the lowest Local Government Finance Settlement both in total and per head.
Originally Posted by: warrenb