The Government should stick to an agreed single measure of local government spending power when discussing changes to funding, an influential MP has demanded. Chair of the Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee, Clive Betts, has made the call following the repeated refusal of either the Treasury or the Department for Communities and Local Government to set out how a 2.3% real terms spending decrease reduction for local government between 2014/15 and 2015/16 was calculated.
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