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[_] at the risk of upsetting any (_)'s who believe the car is the route of all evil

Tom Gidden tom at gidden.net
Fri Jan 5 16:19:27 GMT 2007 

On 5 Jan 2007, at 16:08, Andy Davies wrote:
> Council Tax is only something like 25% of council funding, the rest  
> comes
> from a 'block grant' from Central Government (allows central gov to  
> exert
> plenty of control over what happens on a local level).

Yeah... I meant that the subsidies are paid for out of the Council  
Tax by the councils, rather than that the councils are paid for  
(solely) by the Council Tax... I just seem to remember it being  
itemised on one of the CT breakdowns in a leaflet I got a few years ago.

Tom

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