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Vince Cable Excerpts
Monday 4th March 2019

(5 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rishi Sunak Portrait Rishi Sunak
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I know that the Secretary of State will be making a more detailed statement on the towns fund later when I am sure that he can address my hon. Friend’s specific question. This is a separate process from the fair funding review, which is, I know, something that all colleagues are interested to hear. That process is regarding ongoing spending and that will be done through the spending review later this year.

Vince Cable Portrait Sir Vince Cable (Twickenham) (LD)
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Will the Minister say how the financial sustainability of local government is helped by what amounts to negative rates support grants, where councils are paying in more to central Government than they get back?