Picture by George Hodan
Yesterday the poorly performing Coalition government
announced its Spending
Review for 2015/16. The centre piece of the review was a
further £11.5 billion of spending cuts, including £2.6bn from the Communities Department.
It is expected that this
will translate to an average 10% cut to local council budgets.
Manchester and Manchester
City Council has fared badly from previous rounds. Under the current government, during 2011/13 the Council had been forced to make cuts of £170
million. The last Spending
Review, taking effect during 2014/15 an additional £80 million is removed from local
budgets.
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