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