ECONOMIC GROWTH

We need fairer funding of local government, and we need it now

Cllr John Merry says that while the chancellor stressed the need for more efficiency in this week's Budget, he would highlight the importance of fixing what is, in Key Cities’ view, councils' broken funding model’.

In most cases Jeremy Hunt got the supportive headlines he was looking for, following his Spring Budget this week.

The Chancellor's 2p cut in National Insurance is set to make 27 million working people around £450 a year better off, while drivers benefitted from another freeze in petrol duty. Those who like a tipple similarly saw no increase in alcohol duty.

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