Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith

Conservative — South West Devon

Speaking in the House of Commons on 11 February 2026

Debate

Local Government Finance

Contribution

Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the problems with the current process for local government reorganisation is that there has been no direction on how the funding will work out? We have some proposals on the table that would leave enormously vast rural communities in constituencies such as mine neighbouring towns and urban centres that will see this as an opportunity to get what they want. This settlement does not give those rural councils any confidence that they will get the money they need once local government reorganisation has taken place.

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