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HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI join my hon. Friend in praising her local council, and in particular the excellent local council leader she is lucky to have, Elizabeth Campbell, whom it has been my pleasure to…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI will happily write to my hon. Friend with the full details with respect to Blaby District Council. Across the country, we have announced today that we will be doing a further…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI will happily look into the issue that the hon. Gentleman raises, but £1 million is not a great deal of money in the context of the £39.8 million that the Government have…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. We all want to see councils have access to funding at low interest rates to fund housing and regeneration within their own boundaries.…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI join the right hon. Gentleman in thanking and praising the staff of his local council and wishing Mr Collins a happy retirement. With respect to the balance of funding across…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will bring forward proposals in due course. We will meet our manifesto commitment to introduce the long-term…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementAs I said in answer to the hon. Member for Bedford (Mohammad Yasin), it would not be right for me to say publicly how much a local council has self-reported as having spent on…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementAs I said in response to the shadow Minister’s remarks, the Government have seen a real-terms decrease in council tax compared with the position when we came to power in 2010. It…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementMy hon. Friend makes a very important point, and I am very happy to give him my full support. When providing public services, local councils will need to balance their individual…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementAs Secretary of State for Local Government, I am familiar with people saying that there is not enough money; that, I think, is a refrain that all of my predecessors of all parties…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI would be delighted to join my hon. Friend in thanking the brilliant staff at his local councils. I have been consistently delighted and impressed by the fantastic work that…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementThe hon. Lady makes an interesting argument, because we on the Government Benches want to see more private sector investment going into the great cities of the midlands and the…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI appreciate that this will have been a particular challenge to Cornwall Council given its array of car parks and other attractions for the tourist sector. That is why we created…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementIt would not be right for me to provide in public the self-reported estimate of costs supplied to us by Bedford Borough Council because that was done in confidence. None the less,…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI shall certainly take my hon. Friend’s representations forward. I know that Leicestershire colleagues, both in local government and in the House, have long advocated a fairer…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI am not able to confirm when we will bring that forward. As I have said, it will not be on this occasion, but we will have to make a judgment, based on the position of local…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementAs I have said in response to other questions, it would clearly be beneficial for the sector for there to be a multi-year settlement, but this was not the opportunity to do so. I…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementWe all—certainly those of us on the Government Benches—would agree that we need an updated and fairer method of distributing public funds within local government. This year would…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI forgot to say in response to the shadow Minister that of course the first and most celebrated customer of Robin Hood Energy in Nottingham was the right hon. Gentleman, the…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI am happy to reassure my hon. Friend’s constituents in Telford that there should be no reason why her local council, Telford and Wrekin, should endanger local people’s services.…17 Dec 2020