Fair Funding For Somerset

Somerset local authorities, which provide many important services including schools, children's services, elderly care and highway maintenance, are not funded fairly. Welsh, Scottish and English urban authorities are all funded by Government on a far more generous scale than rural areas like Somerset, despite the fact that we pay more in Council Tax and that services are more expensive to provide in sparsely-populated areas.  Many of the damaging cuts made by our Councils would not have been necessary were Somerset given fair funding.  We, the undersigned, call on the Government to fund Somerset public services fairly.