LETTERS

摘要

Towns and cities outside London face over £800m of unthinkable cuts this year and 76% of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities (SIGOMA) finance officers say they risk having to strip services back to a minimum core offer of statutory duties by 2020. Centre for Cities' recent report simply confirmed what we already knew: the burden of austerity has fallen disproportionately on poorer, mostly urban areas, with places like Liverpool and Barnsley facing average cuts twice that of their more affluent counterparts.