Birmingham City Council finance problems clear years ago - MP

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Conservative MP Suzanne Webb sat on Birmingham City Council's audit committee between 2018 and 2022.

Suzanne Webb, Conservative MP for Stourbridge, sat on the local authority's audit committee between 2018 and 2022 when she was a councillorAn MP who was on a Birmingham City Council monitoring committee said leaders at the time were made aware of the financial position, but "nothing was being done about it".

"It was being discussed and credit to the fantastic officers and the audit team and the chief financial officer at the time, all that information was available," she said. She said the authority had lost an average of 17.5% of government funding since 2010 and had been affected by then prime minister Liz Truss's "kamikaze budget" - resulting in high inflation and costs.

 

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