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17 Dec 2020
RSN responds to Provisional Settlement 2021-22
RSN reaction to Provisional Local Government Financial Settlement The Rural Services Network welcomes the news of an increase in Rural Services Delivery Grant in the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement...
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14 Dec 2020
Funding gap ‘devastates’ rural bus services
Transport Network has reported that remote bus services saw journeys fall by 97 million last year due to a £348 million funding gap The new report from the County Councils...
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30 Nov 2020
Post Offices in £50m plea
The Daily Mail has reported that more than 3,000 rural post offices face ‘armageddon’ if the Government does not step in to subsidise a £50m funding hole this week Chancellor...
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30 Nov 2020
Rural Review of the Comprehensive Spending Review
The Government has announced a one-year Spending Review for 2020, the long- term spending review being abandoned in favour of a short term approach to prioritise the response to Covid-19...
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26 Nov 2020
RSN Initial response to Comprehensive Spending Review
The hotly anticipated Comprehensive Spending Review was announced today, and given the unprecedented times in which we live, it was always going to be critical to see how the Government...
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16 Nov 2020
Countryside Climate Network
The Guardian has reported on warnings that cuts and a lack of support from central government have hampered local authority attempts to tackle climate change Three-quarters of local authorities across...
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09 Nov 2020
Homes England funding rule undermines ‘levelling-up agenda’
The Rural Services Network was concerned to read the article in Local Gov this week which highlighted research from Knight Frank indicating that ‘a disproportionate amount of Government funding for...
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19 Oct 2020
Rural Services APPG Meets Chief Secretary to the Treasury on Spending Review
On 13th October the Rural Services All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) met Steve Barclay MP The Chief Secretary to the Treasury to raise a number of rural issues ahead of...
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05 Oct 2020
Bus services make fewer journeys and lose funding over past decade
Sky News has reported that the number of bus journeys taken in England has fallen by 10 percent in the last decade, with funding for bus services down by nearly...
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28 Sep 2020
Call for Government to level-up rural areas to support England’s economic recovery from COVID-19
Call for Government to level-up rural areas to support England’s economic recovery from COVID-19 Rural Coalition urges Government to unlock untapped potential of rural communities and economies and to address...
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