Does my hon. Friend agree that the real way to achieve proper sustainability for local government funding is to reward those councils who go for growth in their area and increase their tax bases—as we are seeing with the increase in business rates income anticipated this year—and make councils less dependent on central Government grant in the long term?
Local Government Finance
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Neill
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 10 February 2015.
It occurred during Debate on Local Government Finance.
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