"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..

Regards
Sunil

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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

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:25:54 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
wrote:

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've worked for them. They aren't.

In message , Sunil Sood
writes

I don't think that Wandsworth gets a particularily good deal on its
government funding

Don't you? 82% of its expenditure is met by government funding, compared
with 49% in neighbouring Richmond. The level of subvention for
Wandsworth is as high as in much more clearly deprived boroughs such as
Tower Hamlets.

For that reason, my Council Tax on a small terraced house in the LB of
Richmond is over 2000 quid, while an identical house only metres away
pays Wandsworth under half of that.

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Paul Terry

I don't think that Wandsworth gets a particularily good deal on its government funding

It's an Inner London borough so it should.

Newham would be an example of a borough getting a bad deal.

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(TKD) wrote:

I don't think that Wandsworth gets a particularily good deal on its
government funding

It's an Inner London borough so it should.

Newham would be an example of a borough getting a bad deal.

OK, I agree comparing Wandsworth with Richmond has that drawback but how
does Wandsworth compare with Hammersmith and Fulham then?

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Colin Rosenstiel