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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 6 December 2007, in the House of Commons, led by John Healey.

Local Government Finance

Statement on local government finance in England.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
468 c981-95 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Brian Iddon | 468 c989 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend looked at the impact on our decent homes policy of the withdrawal of the rental c...
Speaker | 468 c985 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman's time is up.
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Speaker | 468 c987 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many hon. Members are hoping to catch my eye. There is business to follow this, so I ...
John Healey | 468 c994 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. He is a former Barnsley council leader and he knows just how unfair and rig...
Jeff Ennis | 468 c994 (Link to this contribution) Following the question from the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. Fallon), does my right hon. Friend ag...
Justine Greening | 468 c993 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Minister to clarify the decision process on the new working neighbourhoods fund? The p...
Bob Spink | 468 c994 (Link to this contribution) Will the specific grant for the extension of the excellent concessionary travel scheme fully compens...
John Healey | 468 c992 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, to the extent that this is always a decision about the balance between want...
John Healey | 468 c993 (Link to this contribution) Specifically, the decisions that I have announced this afternoon for fire and rescue authorities do ...
George Mudie | 468 c993 (Link to this contribution) The seven metropolitan district fire authorities have genuine concerns about the settlement. The Min...
John Healey | 468 c993 (Link to this contribution) I will ensure that I try to get sight of the Crookall report, as the hon. Gentleman urges me to do. ...
Paul Keetch | 468 c992 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will accept that any settlement is good for the local people of a community only if the...
Paul Rowen | 468 c995 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not accept that his announcement today also leaves Greater Manchester police—the s...
John Healey | 468 c995 (Link to this contribution) Fair for Derbyshire is an increase of more than £50 million in the total grant coming from central G...
John Healey | 468 c995 (Link to this contribution) Having announced the settlement, I have made it clear that decisions on spending—on how to manage th...
Richard Burden | 468 c994 (Link to this contribution) I add my welcome for the year-on-year increases which are, as has been pointed out, in stark contras...
John Healey | 468 c994 (Link to this contribution) The extra money that we are putting in through a special grant, as local government wanted, in each ...
John Healey | 468 c994 (Link to this contribution) The new working neighbourhoods fund is based on criteria that start from the neighbourhood level, as...
John Healey | 468 c995 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: we have given an interim payment of £10 million to Gloucestershire in r...
John Healey | 468 c981-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a statement about local government finance in ...
Alistair Burt | 468 c983-5 (Link to this contribution) I begin by welcoming the Minister's courtesy in sending me a copy of his statement. The technicaliti...
John Healey | 468 c985-6 (Link to this contribution) It is inflation-busting grant rises that I have announced today, not inflation-busting council tax r...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 468 c987 (Link to this contribution) Do the Government accept that their failure to implement the social services formula fully has resul...
John Healey | 468 c987 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend follows these matters in detail, and I am disappointed that he has not recognis...
Tom Brake | 468 c987-8 (Link to this contribution) I start by thanking the Minister for providing a copy of his statement in advance—but I am afraid th...
John Healey | 468 c988 (Link to this contribution) Where does one begin, Madam Deputy Speaker? The vulnerable in our system are, of course, protected b...
Lord Young of Cookham | 468 c989 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that the quotation from the Association of Directors of Social Services tha...
John Healey | 468 c989 (Link to this contribution) We have worked closely with local government over two years to analyse the pressures, and we have id...
John Healey | 468 c988 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's comments. He is a former local government finance chief, he chairs the gr...
Lord Deben | 468 c990 (Link to this contribution) Because of Government decisions, Suffolk county council has worked hard and spent a good deal of mon...
Clive Betts | 468 c990 (Link to this contribution) I welcome many aspects of the overall settlement. Although it is tighter than the settlements in mos...
John Healey | 468 c990 (Link to this contribution) One of the things that I have learned during my first few months in this job is that every council r...
David Curry | 468 c989 (Link to this contribution) The Minister spoke of the traditional choreography of these occasions. Last year, the then Minister ...
John Healey | 468 c990 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right, in that the council tax rise was 4.2 per cent. last year, 4.5 per...
John Healey | 468 c989 (Link to this contribution) The Government are giving a very high priority to housing—both to building new houses and to improvi...
John Healey | 468 c990-1 (Link to this contribution) I simply do not recognise that description of the announcement I made yesterday about local governme...
Lord Beamish | 468 c991 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's announcement of a three-year settlement. On leadership, will he congratul...
John Healey | 468 c991 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been a consistently strong advocate of local government reorganisation in his cou...
Andrew George | 468 c991 (Link to this contribution) I genuinely seek clarification. The Minister announced, with a bit of a flourish, that he proposed t...
John Healey | 468 c992 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is very astute and very well informed about financial matters, so he knows that t...
Mark Todd | 468 c992 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Minister about his decisions on floors? I suspect that I shall welcome his decision on...
John Healey | 468 c991 (Link to this contribution) What I announced is what we will do—remove the double damping on the formula in two of the three are...
Lynne Jones | 468 c991-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be aware that because of double damping Birmingham has experienced a shortfall o...
John Healey | 468 c992 (Link to this contribution) I have explained, and we have recognised in the settlement, the pressures on social care budgets. I ...
Michael Fallon | 468 c992 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware that 10 years ago Sevenoaks district council received roughly exactly the same...
John Healey | 468 c993 (Link to this contribution) The working neighbourhoods fund will be distributed through the new area-based grant. It will be one...
Lord Harper | 468 c995 (Link to this contribution) In his alter-ego as flood recovery Minister, the Minister will know that one of the big financial pr...
Paul Robert Holmes | 468 c995 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that this was a fair settlement, but how can he apply the word ““fair”” to the tre...
Neil Turner | 468 c988 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on scrapping the double damping, which was iniquitous, immoral and had...
Subjects
Community development Local government finance Regeneration Formula grant
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