I will give one topical example. Redcar has just lost one of its major sources of local business rates, so how will that be replaced? Westminster City Council and other areas would be able to do it, but without resource reallocation of business rates, areas such as Redcar will not be helped. That has added to what we have seen over the past five years of this Government and the movement of resources from poorer areas to wealthier ones.
Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Beamish
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 14 October 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [Lords].
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