Local government funding
The way Government distributes grant funding to local authorities across England means rural people end up paying higher Council Tax bills than urban people, yet still have less money available to fund local services and so receive fewer of them. This is fundamentally unfair. The system should take full account of higher service delivery costs in rural areas.
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10 Jul 2023
RSN cautiously welcomes Michael Gove’s comment on fairer funding: “There desperately needs to be a fairer, more rational allocation of resources across authorities
At his speech at the LGA conference, Michael Gove MP (Con, Surrey Heath) acknowledged that the current funding system is “out of date” and that there “desperately needs to be...
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16 Sep 2019
Bus journeys fall by 300 million in five years
It has been widely reported, including by the i paper, that the number of bus journeys have fallen by 300 million in five years. Analysis of government figures by the Local...
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04 Dec 2014
Local government funding – calls to Government
The Rural Services Network calls upon an incoming Government to: Acknowledge that Government proposals contained in its 2012 Consultation were seeking to right an historic wrong and that the whole...
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