Sentence examples for reduce council from inspiring English sources

It will drive up demand for services, reduce council income, push up costs and tip vulnerable people into poverty.

We should do more to reduce council tax, which bites hard on those who own their own home but have modest incomes.

The coalition's move to reduce council tax benefit in April will result in about 2 million low-income workers who are currently exempt facing an average bill of £250 a year.

George Osborne is missing the link between economic and personal prosperity  1.46pm GMT Thousands of families in England are set to save around £500 a year following a decision to reduce council tax for so-called granny flats.

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Plans to reduce council budgets in England are branded "unsustainable" by the Local Government Association.

Critics will claim councils are being forced to sell their best property, and reducing council property in England into residual housing for the poor as a result.

This TPA proposal is therefore a cynical attempt to deny services in areas of greatest need while reducing council taxes in the areas of greatest wealth.

Responding to these claims, a Department for Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: "Councils have continued to balance their budgets whilst reducing council tax in real-terms, and increasing or maintaining public satisfaction with services and we pay tribute to local government for achieving that.

For example, Labour has said it will stick to existing overall spending forecasts (reducing council "stealth taxes" such as parking charges but promising to "root out waste"), and improve and build on the "tri-borough" arrangement, whereby H&F merged some of its functions with neighbouring boroughs in order to reduce costs, rather than dispense with it.

Reducing council subsidies for nursery places by up to 40%.