Local Authority Funding

Part of Housing, Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 November 2018.

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Photo of Stephen Timms Stephen Timms Labour, East Ham 12:00, 5 November 2018

My hon. Friend Dr Blackman-Woods just mentioned Cambridge University research published last month showing that local authority spending cuts have been concentrated on the poorest areas, making disparities with better-off areas much worse. Phasing out central Government grants, as Ministers are proposing, will make that even worse. Are Ministers happy just to let the disparities between different areas rocket?