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Slough and Reading hit hardest in Berkshire council spending cuts

Slough faces the deepest budget cuts of Berkshire's six councils after Eric Pickles, Communities and Local Government Secretary revealed provisional details of its English council grants.
Slough Borough Council will have 4.86% less to spend on services in 2011/2012. Reading Borough Council now under Tory-Lib Dem control will have to make savings of 4.26% over the same period
In comparison Tory run Wokingham Borough Council will have to make savings of 0.63% and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 1.06%.
Leader of Slough's Council, Rob Anderson said "Clearly, the way it's been structured is it's taking us 'back to the future' of the 1980s. The level of funding the government's putting into places is now determined on political control rather than the actual needs of a population."
Reading and Slough had previously been better funded than other Berkshire councils under the last Labour government because of the needs of the people. These Tory cuts will hit rate payers in Slough and Reading who have got a poorer deal than their neighbours in areas with prominent Tory MPs like Theresa May and John Redwood.