01 November 2007

Government Needs to Fund Growth

The Local Government Association is making headlines today calling on the Government to create a £250m contingency fund to allow local authorities to fund the pressures created by growth. It is good news that this issue is at last making the headlines.

Hazel Blears has said she needs to sit down with every local authority and look at the evidence - does this mean that she will accept delegations, because my understanding is that Government Ministers no longer meet delegations from local government?

Cambridgeshire is the fastest growing County in England, and the failure to accept growth as an issue has a huge impact on services - bearing in mind that 2/3 of our funding is from Central Government and it is about time we got a fair deal.

To be honest that funding issue has an impact on all our public services, not just those provided by local government; Cambridgeshire gets a raw deal.

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