Local Government Finance (England)

Part of Police Grant Report (England and Wales) – in the House of Commons at 4:05 pm on 10 February 2016.

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Photo of Greg Clark Greg Clark The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 4:05, 10 February 2016

Let me make a bit of progress, and then I will of course give way to more colleagues.

As the Institute for Fiscal Studies pointed out, over the course of this Parliament the required savings that, as I made clear, councils will need to continue to make will be less than those required in the previous Parliament. The Institute for Fiscal Studies reports that the required savings of

“around 7% in real terms over the next four years...is a substantially slower pace of cuts than councils had to deliver between 2009-10 and 2015-16, when councils’ spending power was cut on average by 25% in real terms.”