When the Government abolished the social fund and transferred responsibility to local authorities, they said it was an administrative change. Now the Minister has come to the House and said that there is no additional money and that this is discretionary spend on the part of local authorities. Is that not truly the return of local poor boards and to the 1930s?
Local Government Finance
Proceeding contribution from
Helen Goodman
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 18 December 2014.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Local Government Finance.
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2014-15
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