Local government is entering an unprecedented time of financial challenges. The government are finding a myriad of ways in which to pass the solution to the national debt down the chain to lower level authorities. The last couple of years have seen government grants to District and County councils substantially reduced, and it has been made clear that these grants may disappear completely by 2020.
Inevitably the two level District/County structure will have to be reformed to a Unitary model in order to make Bucks local government lower cost and more fit for purpose. The establishment within the Councils are doing their best to preserve their positions and are actively delaying any plans to modernise. I am campaigning for Bucks to join the other 56 English local authority areas (and all of Wales) that have aleady gone unitary and made enormous savings.
We must start planning for this now so that the County is ready when the government announces the next round of reforms.
If elected to the County Council, I will campaign hard for the benefits a move to Unitary would have for the people of Buckinghamshire.
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