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Fiona Mactaggart
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Fiona Mactaggart Excerpts(9 years, 8 months ago)
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Greg Clark
I have been looking carefully at the responses to the consultation on local government finance, including that from Leicestershire, which seems to make a perfectly reasonable point that the essential requirement is that the underlying formula should reflect the different costs of providing services in different places. If my hon. Friend is patient and comes back a little later, I shall have more to say then.
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough) (Lab)
Is it not a fact that in practice, despite their rhetoric, Conservative councils are charging more than Labour councils? That is what the question from the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen) conceals.
Greg Clark
It is a long-established fact that Conservative councils offer lower council tax than Labour councils, which accounts for their success and their majority in local government.