The Government are giving a very high priority to housing—both to building new houses and to improving those that we currently have. I have not looked in detail at the specific formula for Bolton, but now I shall, in view of my hon. Friend's intervention. I hope he will recognise and welcome the fact that Bolton's formula grant stands to rise by 5.3 per cent. next year compared with this year's figures.
Local Government Finance
Proceeding contribution from
John Healey
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 6 December 2007.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Local Government Finance.
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