Local Government Finance (Tameside and Oldham)
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Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles) (Lab)
My local authority, Salford City Council, is in a similar situation: up to £4.7 million is going to be cut from adult services alone. Its Labour mayor has tried to limit the effect of such swingeing cuts by implementing the living wage and employment standards charter, supporting local people into work with free nursery care and raising £5 million from the proceeds of crime.
Nadine Dorries (in the Chair)
Order. Ms Long Bailey, please do not make a speech if you are making an intervention.
Rebecca Long Bailey
Thank you for that guidance, Ms Dorries.
Does my hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) agree that we need a fairer funding settlement for the whole of Greater Manchester, based on the real needs of localities?