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Old 02-03-2009, 16:23   #144
g jones
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Re: Last Nights Council Meeting

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Originally Posted by andrewb View Post
Claytonender, can you confirm that our government grant has gone up by less than average?

Authorities get grants, the government increases this yearly, and this Labour government have chosen to raise ours by far less than the national average, which means we are short changed. If they had just given us the average, we'd have a 0% council tax rise. Shame on Labour. Wheres Garinda when you need him to criticise them.
Once again you have shamelessly misled AccyWeb members. Government grants have gone up over the last few years by substantially more than inflation.

The Council received for the 4th year a top up of £2.1m capital to spend on what ever the Council wants. Plus £1.3m Worklessness fund extra, on top of all the other Gov't funding.

The Council has lost 200k for concessionary travel by overpayment. Money lost. If we had watched the money carefully, we could have set a minus Council Tax.

So on balance The Council has benefited significantly from Government, this year and every year.

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