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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Council Cuts: The Wider Picture

The Guardian has a summary of local government cuts across the country based on CIPFA figures here.  Of course, the picture is radically different according to which local authority you are in.  The impact of the cuts is very different if you are in an authority like Brent (poorer and Labour) which depends heavily on central government grant, or like Westminster (richer and Tory), which has greater scope for raising its own funding.

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