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Philip Hollobone

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Oral Answers to Questions

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Monday 21st October 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Pickles Portrait Mr Pickles
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If the hon. Gentleman is going to ask a Whips’ question, he should at least try to memorise it. He will know that the top-spending authorities, which are largely Labour authorities, are getting something like an extra £700 per household. To compare a tiny district council with his own is utterly ridiculous.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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Through the Secretary of State, may I thank the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Great Yarmouth (Brandon Lewis) for visiting Kettering borough council last week? Would the Secretary of State like to take this opportunity to congratulate the council, which for the past three years has frozen council tax, has not cut any front-line services and has maintained all its grants to the voluntary sector?