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"The ability to fix longer-term funding settlements has been important for councils and something we have long called for.
Instead of Whitehall setting local authorities' annual budgets, the government I plan to lead next year will provide long-term funding settlements so councils can plan ahead, improve their services, and reinvest the savings.
But a European council of foreign relations report last year suggested settlements should no longer benefit from integration between EU and Israeli banks, from charitable status applied to European organisations funding settlements, and the validity in EU countries of Israeli legal documents issued in the occupied territories.
But the real key will be the promised legislation to make the Highways Agency an independent publicly-owned corporation - a kind of Network Rail for the roads, with long-term goals and funding settlements that won't be chopped by chancellors at will.
As councils hear their future funding settlements from government on Thursday, cuts are continuing to bite across Oxfordshire.
He added that council funding settlements were "fair to all parts of the country - rural or urban, district or county, city or shire".
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In an interview last July before the funding settlement with the BBC, Osborne indicated that the licence-fee-funded BBC should not be allowed to crowd out newspaper competition.
Treasury to save £340m from new funding settlement for BBC.
The BBC had a massive boost with the funding settlement.
But he warned future flood defence works might be hampered by a tight funding settlement.
And the funding settlement for the BBC requires both cuts and the reallocation of spending".
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