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Environmental Protection and Green Growth

There is another problem—the direct and, I suggest, deliberate skewing of Government funding to urban areas in the name of deprivation, and away from rural areas. The average grant per head in rural areas is 50% less than in urban areas at the end of 10 years of Labour, average incomes are lower and the average council tax is 100% higher. People are poorer, they pay more and get less, and that needs to be put right.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
534 c407 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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