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 Helen Jones Helen Jones Chair, Petitions Committee, Chair, Petitions Committee 4:05, 10 February 2016

I am sorry, but the Secretary of State is being disingenuous. He knows that the whole local government finance system, set up under the previous Government’s Local Finance Act 2012, takes no account of need. His social care precept will raise the most money in areas that have the highest council tax base, not in areas where there is greatest need, which tend to have the lowest council tax base.