GLASGOW LABOUR BLOCKED £6 MILLION INVESTMENT IN CITY ROADS AND STREETS,
OFFICIAL STATS EXPOSE LABOUR SCAREMONGERING ON GLASGOW FUNDING,
AFTER 74 YEARS CAN ANYONE TRUST A WORD LABOUR SAYS IN THIS BY-ELECTION?
Minutes from Glasgow City Council show that the Labour administration voted against an SNP proposal for EXTRA investment in Glasgow’s roads and street lighting amounting to £6 million in capital investment.
The minutes were highlighted by Glasgow SNP MSP Bob Doris to show how Labour’s negative scaremongering about Glasgow’s overall funding and investment in roads was not only misleading but hypocritical.
Minutes from a Glasgow City Council meeting on 12th February this year concerning the 2009/10 Revenue and Capital Budget show that Labour councillors voted against the SNP’s proposals to spend £4 million capital investment in roads and a £2 million capital investment in street lighting. Despite this fact the Labour campaign in Glasgow North East is trying to claim the SNP Government has cut funding – even although Glasgow is the best funded mainland council in Scotland.
Commenting on Labour’s latest attempt to mislead the voters of Glasgow North East Mr Doris said:
“After 74 years of Labour representation and corresponding decline can anyone trust a word Labour tells the voters in Glasgow North East?
“This is the height of hypocrisy. The non-trunk roads in Glasgow are funded from the council’s budget and despite a proposal from the SNP Council Group to invest £6 million in the city’s roads and street lighting it was the Labour party which voted it down.
“Labour’s attempts to mislead the voters of Glasgow North East are becoming a hallmark of this campaign.”
SNP councillor Alex Dingwall, the Shadow City Treasurer, said:
“How else can you explain their attempts to say Glasgow is being ‘ripped-off’ when the grant from the Scottish Government means spending is the highest per head of any mainland council?
“It is simple hypocrisy to mislead the people of Glasgow whilst the city enjoys the best funding per head of any mainland Scottish council yet fails to back local SNP proposals to invest in Glasgow’s roads and streets.”
1. Page 8 of the minutes from the Glasgow City Council meeting on 12th February this year concerning the 2009/10 Revenue and Capital Budget can be read here:
The minutes show the following SNP proposals:
Infrastructure investment in roads (£4m capital investment) 400,000
Lighting Strategy (£2m capital investment) 200,000
The vote is shown on page 14.
2. The following Parliamentary Question and Answer shows how Glasgow is the best funded council per head in mainland Scotland:
Index Heading: Finance and Sustainable Growth
Bob Doris (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was made available on a per capita basis to each local authority in 2009-10, broken down by amount. (S3W-27589)
Mr John Swinney: The 2009-10 funding per capita information requested is provided in the following table.
Local Authority - Funding per capita £
Aberdeen City - 1876
Aberdeenshire - 1946
Angus - 2125
Argyll & Bute - 2755
Clackmannanshire - 2145
Dumfries & Galloway - 2321
Dundee City - 2427
East Ayrshire - 2157
East Dunbartonshire - 1961
East Lothian - 2007
East Renfrewshire - 2125
Edinburgh (City of) - 1994
Eilean Siar - 4769
Falkirk - 2055
Fife - 2032
Glasgow City - 2871
Highland - 2477
Inverclyde - 2431
Midlothian - 2186
Moray - 2307
North Ayrshire - 2251
North Lanarkshire - 2180
Orkney Islands - 4032
Perth & Kinross - 1973
Renfrewshire - 2185
Scottish Borders - 2233
Shetland Islands - 4821
South Ayrshire - 2062
South Lanarkshire - 2068
Stirling - 2204
West Dunbartonshire - 2533
West Lothian - 2001
Scotland – 2254
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