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Ministers listen to rural MPs’ concerns on local government funding

admin Press Releases 9 February 20161 February 2018

East Riding MPs Graham Stuart and Sir Greg Knight today welcomed the new proposals from the government on rural funding. Read more

Countryside Boost Follows Graham Stuart’s Fair Share Campaign

admin Press Releases 18 December 201523 December 2015

The grant set up to help rural authorities deliver services in the countryside has been given a massive increase in the government’s local government finance settlement announced yesterday. Read more

Graham Stuart calls on Government to give rural councils what they’re owed

admin Press Releases 10 December 201523 December 2015

Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness and Chairman of the Rural Fair Share Campaign, this week led a delegation of MPs to meet the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark, about local government funding for rural areas. Read more

MP attacks Labour record on rural funding

admin Press Releases 12 February 20155 November 2015

Graham Stuart, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness and Chairman of the Rural Fair Share campaign, criticised the last Labour Government for allowing the funding gap between urban and rural councils to widen. Read more

MPs take Rural Fair Share campaign to the Treasury

admin Press Releases 13 January 20155 November 2015

A group of Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs today took the case for fairer funding of rural Local Government to Treasury Minister Priti Patel MP. Read more

Minister recognises funding gap between urban and rural authorities

admin Press Releases 22 December 201423 December 2015

In the Local Government Finance Statement last week, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Kris Hopkins MP, recognised that there is a gap between rural and urban authority funding. Read more

MPs rally to provide a voice for rural Britain

admin Press Releases 11 January 20131 November 2015

Last Wednesday evening (9 January 2013), a cross-party group of more than 45 MPs gathered in Parliament to call on the government to reconsider the 2013/14 Local Government Financial Settlement which threatens to entrench the injustice suffered by rural areas by further widening the gap between the funding given to rural and urban councils. Read more

Registered Contact

Derek Thomas MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Phone: 01736 363038
Email: derek.thomas.mp@parliament.uk
Website: www.derekthomas.org
Twitter: twitter.com/DerekThomasUK
Facebook: facebook.com/derekthomas.org/

Secretariat

Rural Services Network
Kilworthy Park
Tavistock
Devon
PL19 0BZ

T: 01822 851370
E: admin@sparse.gov.uk
W: www.rsnonline.org.uk

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