Jas Athwal

Jas Athwal

Labour — Ilford South

Speaking in the House of Commons on 5 February 2025

Debate

Local Government Finance

Contribution

On the point about inner and outer London, the problem is that outer-London boroughs are now seeing inner-London problems, the funding system is archaic and the formula is based on outdated deprivation statistics, using household numbers rather than population. This unfairly impacts boroughs such as Redbridge, which covers my constituency. It is home to many multi-generational families living under one roof—

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