Local Government Finance (England)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 7:22 pm on 3 February 1993.

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Photo of Mr Nigel Jones Mr Nigel Jones , Cheltenham 7:22, 3 February 1993

May I correct the hon. Gentleman who entirely surrounds me? Gloucestershire county council has never been under Liberal Democrat control. It has been a hung council since 1985 and currently operates the rather curious arrangement of a Conservative-Labour alliance.

I have two questions. First, there is an outstanding school capital programme of £65 million in Gloucestershire. It increases every year, as we are not building the schools and school extensions. What projects in the hon. Gentleman?s constituency does he think we should delete from that capital programme? The quotation that I read to the House was from the headmaster of a school in his division.

Secondly—