In June 2010 the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) published what is likely to become one of the most infamous documents of the economic recession, titled Local government contribution to efficiencies in 2010/11 (DCLG 2010). This document set out what many have argued are some of the most unfairly distributed cuts ever to be imposed on local government in England.
The poor and the poorest areas of the country appeared to have been targeted to receive the deepest and most sustained cuts. This mirrored the effects of the national budget of that month, which was also found on examination by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (2010) to be highly regressive (taking more from the poor than from the rich as a proportion of their income).
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