Finance settlement: Reaction

By Heather Jameson | 18 December 2014

Local government reaction to the finance settlement, which was announced today. 

On the cuts…..

Mayor Jules Pipe, chair of London Councils said: ‘We are only half way through the Government’s austerity programme and so far the boroughs have taken on an unequal share given that councils control less than 10% of total government spending.

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