South Ribble local elections 2023: The Big Debate - the borough's top politicians on the issues that matter at this year's poll
“When you invest, you invest to have a return. One of the reasons we've been able to freeze the council tax for the last three years is because we had…much greater income from business rates. Liverpool Road [in Penwortham]...is thriving…and that means income to the council. So while you're looking at probably a £5m investment [to improve] that centre…we get the payback.
And we've asked questions [as to whether] we are seriously going to be £40 million in debt - or whatever the figure is that's being bandied around by the Conservatives - and the [council’s chief finance officer] assures us we are certainly not.”“[The Conservatives] have plastered all over leaflets saying that we are ‘debt ridden’, that we've got £40m worth of debt - and that is just categorically untrue. But I don't understand...
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