Member

These reforms go to the heart of a long-standing tension in local government finance: the balance between rewarding growth, rewarding high performance and redistributing resources. We should ensure that authorities that drive growth and manage their finances well continue to see the benefits of that success. If that link is weakened the system may discourage ambition, with well-performing councils, that would otherwise support growth, losing out and, as a result, growth reducing across the country to the detriment of all.