Local Government Finance Settlement: Transition Grant

Lord Lexden Excerpts

Wednesday 16th March 2016 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, like my noble friend Lord O’Neill, I have not caught fully the Budget Statement, but I will say that residents’ satisfaction with councils has remained high, and I expect it to go on being so. I will analyse what the noble Lord has said because I simply did not catch it in the Budget.

[Lord Lexden (Con)]

Can my noble friend tell the House whether councils controlled by the Conservative Party, on average, deliver better value for money than councils controlled by other parties?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

I am pretty sure that they do.