Local Government Funding

Debate between Heather Wheeler and Lord Barwell

Monday 6th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Heather Wheeler]

That is a really interesting point. All I know is that I have lost £2 million in South Derbyshire. I do not know whether it should have been £2.5 million or £0.5 million; I know that I lost £2 million.

[Gavin Barwell]

I should just like to put the record straight, following that previous intervention. According to the House of Commons Library, two of the local authorities that did worst, along with my own council, over the past five years under the previous Labour Government were Newcastle upon Tyne and Liverpool.

[Heather Wheeler]

That was a very helpful intervention. Fortunately, someone has some facts at their fingertips, rather than the usual pure emotion.