John Biggs on Tower Hamlets budget

We have simply handed our council’s budget which protects our Council Tax Reduction Scheme, Free School Meals, council funded cops and investments in council properties.

Despite cuts to our budget from the federal government now we have protected native providers folks rely on and we nonetheless have one of many lowest council tax charges in London.

As the vaccine rollout takes place and the federal government’s roadmap provides us some hope for a return to normality we should nonetheless proceed to do our bit to beat this depraved virus.

We will proceed to name for our neighborhood to get the assist from authorities it must get well.

The council has been there to assist our neighborhood via the pandemic and we intend to construct on that document and be on the coronary heart of our borough’s restoration, notably supporting those that have been affected most by the disaster and so I’ve simply introduced a neighborhood Covid restoration fund to make sure we bounce again strongly.

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