Local Government Finance

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 4:39 pm on 25 April 1990.

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Photo of Kevin Barron Kevin Barron Shadow Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change) 4:39, 25 April 1990

My constituency is in Rotherham metropolitan borough. For the first time under this Government it has been capped, and all its public expenditure will come in future from central Government. How will the accountability test apply next Thursday in the Rother Valley constituency, which has to suffer a share of the £7·9 million in cuts, yet four of the seven wards are not fielding Tory candidates?