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Lord Young of Cookham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 January 2025

Debate

Local Government: Funding

Contribution

My Lords, on that devolution framework that the noble Baroness just referred to, the Minister in the other place said: “That is why we are moving power out of Westminster and putting it back into the hands of those who know their area best”.—[Official Report, Commons, 16/12/24; col. 36.] But power involving money was not devolved, leaving local authorities, as the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, said, dependent on a council tax which is regressive and 30 years out of date and business rates which are killing the hospitality and retail industries. Do we not need a much more fundamental review than the one the Minister just referred to?

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