Rates limits set on Labour councils
- Title
- Rates limits set on Labour councils
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 25 Feb 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:02:29
- Description
- Extract from Environment Secretary Patrick Jenkin’s Commons speech setting a Rate Limitation Order which prescribes rates (local taxes) limits for thirteen Labour controlled local authorities. Details excessive spending and misuse of funds by Hackney, Leicester and Islington Councils.
- Contributors
- Patrick Jenkin
- Keywords
- Local government; Labour Party; Councils; Hackney; Islington; Local taxation; Local finance; Leicester
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