I NOTE from The Shuttle that the Cleobury Mortimer MP is pleased that Shropshire Council has been awarded £1.7million for pothole repairs before claiming part of the £200 million additional emergency funding due to the wet winter. Worcestershire has been given just £2.1million from this latest pot for a much more populated county.
You do not have to drive far to find potholes and crumbling roads – even the main A roads.
Another example of unfair allocation is the distribution of £350 million government funding for education across the country for the least fairly funded local areas.
Top of the list is Bromley, an outer suburb of London which will get £19.4 million (11.3%), giving £4,543 per pupil. Worcestershire, a council that has been in the lowest funded sector of all Ccouncils for decades is placed at 40 out of 62, receiving £4.9 million which equal 1.7% and £4,302 per pupil.
Worcester is 46th for pupil funding whilst the highest, wealthy Westminster in inner London receives £5,862 per pupil!
The paltry £4.9 million for Worcestershire is spread across some 250 schools but the Tory government can find £1.3 million to pay off the debts of Holy Trinity International School so it can become a Free School, funded by the taxpayer but without any democratic local accountability.
Where is the justice in that?
LEE WRIGHT Franche Kidderminster
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