Local Government Finance Debate
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Tom Morrison
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Local Government Finance
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Alison McGovern
Well, you should see the level of debt that the Tories left us with. The global financial crisis was a tough time, but I never thought a Tory Government would leave us with a debt-to-GDP ratio of nearly 100%.
To return to the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Pam Cox) and the important work that we are doing to rebuild local authorities after that awful period of austerity, we will be releasing information to councils today so that they can start the budgeting process. We will engage heavily with local authorities over the months to come so that they can set their budgets in the normal way in the spring. I encourage her local authority to be in direct contact with the Department, and I would be happy to meet her to talk about the impact on her constituency.
Mr Tom Morrison (Cheadle) (LD)
Stockport council, along with two other boroughs, missed out on the recovery grant. The grant was not mentioned in the fair funding review or consultation. Why was it not mentioned, and is the Minister concerned that that opens up the whole process to legal challenge?