direct to your inboxGreater Manchester residents will see the amount they pay in council tax towards mayoral functions carried out by Andy Burnham frozen from April.The combined authority agreed that increasing the precept would place a burden on people already struggling through the Covid-19 pandemic.With council tax set by local authorities already expected to rise in the coming years, leaders renewed calls on the government to provide them with more funding.A meeting of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) on Friday, February 12, also saw plans to develop a successor to the scrapped regional spatial framework approved.The ‘Right to Food’ campaign for people in the UK to be given a legal right to food was also backed, making.
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