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Rural Councils: Funding

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and I am grateful to him for bringing us together on this important topic. On the matter of disparity in funding, does he recognise that, on top of the ludicrously exaggerated funding that London councils get, they each make millions more on parking fines that they are then able to put back into

their communities? That is not taken into consideration, so their budgets are inflated beyond even that which we see in the basic figures.