Under the headline 'Your Labour Council is reducing the cost of living in Queensbury' the Labour Party is distributing the above claims in its election leaflet distributed in the ward.
Some are at best ambigous and suggest help is from the council rather than via the council. Take for example the £150 refund on Council Tax. The Council's own website is very clear this this comes from the government:
A Council response to a Freedom of Information request by Paul Lorber lists all the Covid-19 grants that have been available and is a valuable source for cross-checking claims over the forthcoming period.
You will note that the Brent Council appears to have been unsuccessful in spending some of the grants available for business, while the Schools Department has, rightly, spent to the full. Overall the 'repayment' column, totally £70m is concerning - is this unspent money that the council had to pay back to the government?
