8. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Government Funding

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:51 pm on 27 March 2019.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 4:51, 27 March 2019

Would you also accept that people don't understand either that because council tax is a smaller proportion of the amount that is spent locally—say it's, I don't know, 15 or 20 per cent, whatever it might be—a 1 per cent reduction in the RSG going to a local authority will actually result in a disproportionate increase in that council tax of 5 to 10 per cent?