Chris Bryant
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(1 year, 12 months ago)
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Jeremy Hunt
What the public know is that unemployment is the lowest for nearly half a century under a Conservative Government.
Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)
Energy inflation and food inflation are already making the finances of schools and local authorities almost unsustainable, with many in real fear of going bust in the next few months. May I urge the Chancellor, as he is thinking about Thursday, not to push this all down on to council tax, because many of the poorest areas of the country have the highest level of need and the fewest people who can afford to make additional contributions? So it would be entirely counterproductive to do that, and the ratchet effect could make local authorities even more unsustainable.