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Business rate tweak 'could pay for Dilnot'

Deputy chairman of the LGA's community and wellbeing board says localisation of council business rates would help reform social care.

Full localisation of predicted council business rates would fund Andrew Dilnot's plans to reform social care, according to the deputy chairman of the LGA's community and wellbeing board, Cllr Keith Mitchell.

The Oxfordshire CC leader said Mr Dilnot's proposals to cap social care costs and raise the means-tested threshold, which were published in the summer, were estimated to cost around £2.5bn.

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