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

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

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

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