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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pickles-outlines-cuts-for-councils.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Eric Pickles has outlined the spending cuts that local councils face" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-pickles-outlines-cuts-for-councils.jpg" alt="Eric Pickles has outlined the spending cuts that local councils face"/></a></p>
<p>Town halls in England will face no more than an 8.9% reduction in their spending power next year, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has said.</p>
<p>Setting out the financial settlement for councils for the next two years, Mr Pickles said the average reduction in spending power for 2011/12 would be 4.4%.</p>
<p>But he did not give the exact figures for cuts to councils&#8217; revenue support grant in his statement to the Commons.</p>
<p>The figure was not immediately available from the Department for Communities and Local Government.</p>
<p>Shadow communities secretary Caroline Flint asked why the precise cuts to the revenue support grant had not been released.</p>
<p>She also questioned the spending power formula used by Mr Pickles, which also includes money raised from council tax and NHS funding to help with social care.</p>
<p>She described the settlement as &#8220;the most devastating cuts in funding for a generation&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Pickles told MPs he was focusing on local government total spending following lobbying from the Local Government Association (LGA).</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;As far as possible I have given the LGA what they asked for. I have made sure that no authority will face more than an 8.9% reduction in spending power for either 2011 or 2012/13.</p>
<p>&#8220;The average reduction spending power for 2011/2012 is 4.4%.&#8221;</p>
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