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£12.3m cut from North West councils' sports budgets
£12.3m has been cut from councils’ sports budgets in the North West since 2010.
The figure includes £3m from when Liverpool City Council closed Woolton Swimming Pool.
It is the largest budget cut in the country with the next largest cut in the West Midlands of £9.6m.
David Sparks, who chairs the Local Government Association,said to the BBC: “The reality is that, within a few years, well over half of the council tax everyone pays will have to be spent on social care.
“With demand on these life and death services continuing to rise and funding from central government continuing to fall, councils will have little choice.”
This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sophia Taha .
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