{"id":69501,"date":"2018-12-01T00:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/01\/ministers-criticised-after-plans-for-council-tax-rise-to-fund-police\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T00:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:56:54","slug":"ministers-criticised-after-plans-for-council-tax-rise-to-fund-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69501","title":{"rendered":"Ministers criticised after plans for council tax rise to fund police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forces to benefit from \u00a3450m but Labour say the poorest will be hit by billsMinisters have been accused of a financial sleight of hand over plans to allow a council tax increase to pay for extra police funding, in a move Labour said would hit the poorest hardest without providing enough extra funding.Forces across England and Wales were set to benefit to the tune of \u00a3450m, it emerged on Friday, and there have been suggestions the government could hand over a further \u00a3170m when it decides on police funding for next year. Police have been dealing with years of shrinking budgets and a pension shortfall of about \u00a3420m. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/nov\/30\/ministers-criticised-after-plans-for-council-tax-rise-to-fund-police\" target=\"_blank\">Ministers criticised after plans for council tax rise to fund police<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forces to benefit from \u00a3450m but Labour say the poorest will be hit by billsMinisters have been accused of a financial sleight of hand over plans to allow a council tax increase to pay for extra police funding, in a move Labour said would hit the poorest hardest without providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}