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Adjustment Support Grant must be ‘revisited’ in later settlement years, say districts

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District councils’ attention will “quickly turn” to the second and third years of the local government finance settlement to ensure there is protection for those authorities impacted by business rates pooling gains being transferred in the final settlement released this week.

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Tracy Bingham, executive director of resources & transformation (section 151 officer) and deputy chief executive at South Derbyshire Council, said the Adjustment Support Grant

The government has been warned that its plans for fiscal devolution risk widening the gap between urban and rural areas, with “very damaging” consequences for the most sparsely populated parts of England.

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