Council will have central funding cut by 2.3%
Date published: 19 December 2012
Rochdale Borough Council will have central funding cut by 2.3% in 2013/14.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said said other measures meant overall that councils' "spending power" would be 1.7% lower.
Labour's Hilary Benn insisted that local services in England's poorest areas would be hit hardest by the cuts.
Mr Pickles was "living in world of his own", he said.
In a Commons statement, the communities secretary said "this is a fair settlement, fair to the north and the south, fair to rural and urban".
"All councils have a moral duty to freeze council tax," he told MPs, announcing that any attempt to raise council tax by more than 2% would result in a local referendum.
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