motion_title: Adjournment Debate: TREASURY
motion_text: Ordered,
  That Mr David Ruffley be discharged from the Treasury Committee and Mr David Gauke be added.—[Rosemary McKenna, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]
  Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Cawsey.]
  This is not the first time that I have debated local government finance in Poole; it probably will not be the last, since we have a perennial problem with the shortage of funding from central Government. It does not seem to matter what system is invented by the people in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, we always seem to come out very much at the bottom end of the table. So whether it is the standard spending assessment, the formula spending share or the new system, Poole does not seem to be doing very well out of the system.