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» Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Local Government Spending

Asked why relatively wealthy parts of the country were given generous settlements while poorer parts of the country were faced with large cuts in spending, the PMS said that Eric Pickles had set out the figures yesterday.

Put that the settlement was unfair, the PMS said that we thought it was a fair settlement; we were faced with a difficult fiscal situation and we had looked to see where we could find efficiency savings and Local Government had to be part of that.

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