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Colin Rosenstiel · October 8th 05, 09:07 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Sunil Sood) wrote:

"Richard J." wrote in message
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That's because they're in the London Borough of Wandsworth, famous
for setting a zero poll tax, and which still has a very low council
tax rate. I assume that by some quirk of government funding, LBW have
managed to get an extremely favourable deal.

I don't think that Wandsworth gets a particularily good deal on its
government funding but it is much more efficient than most councils..

I don't believe that con for one minute.

Local Government spending per head in Wandsworth, mostly funded by
central government of course, was half as much again as in Cambridge
last time I saw the figures. No doubt David Boothroyd knows where to
find the current spending levels.

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Colin Rosenstiel