Rural Fair Funding

Amid reduced public spending, fair resource allocation across regions is crucial. Despite a population larger than Greater London, rural areas receive significantly less funding for essential services, even though delivering these services in rural locales is costlier.

Rural dismay at funding settlement

The Rural Services Network has slammed the government’s provisional funding settlement for local authorities. Rural communities will be severely disadvantaged by the settlement, which covers proposed local authority funding for

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Rural Fair Funding

Amid reduced public spending, fair resource allocation across regions is crucial. Despite a population larger than Greater London, rural areas receive significantly less funding for essential services, even though delivering these services in rural locales is costlier.

Government’s response is a smokescreen

The Rural Services Network [1] has called the Government’s response to an article in the Sunday Express [2] on Sunday 8 January “nothing more than a smokescreen designed to mask the real issue facing rural council tax payers”.

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Rural dismay at funding settlement

The Rural Services Network has slammed the government’s provisional funding settlement for local authorities. Rural communities will be severely disadvantaged by the settlement, which covers proposed local authority funding for

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Rural dismay at local government funding announcement

The Rural Services Network – which represents more than 250 local authorities and organisations in rural areas [1] – has called for urgent talks following publication of the government’s provisional funding settlement for local authorities [2].

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