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Households in Liverpool have seen cuts 25 times those imposed on homes in West Oxfordshire, where Prime Minister David Cameron is MP.

There was a massive £767 per dwelling decrease over the last five years to the amount of funding in Liverpool from central government.

In West Oxfordshire there were cuts of only £31 per home over the same period and in Cheshire East, where Chancellor George Osborne is MP, it was £77 per household.

Liverpool councillors discussed the differences at a meeting of the council’s cabinet on Friday.

Mayor Joe Anderson slammed the “tsunami of cuts” the city was facing and said: “It highlights the unfairness of how we’re being treated. They are government’s own figures but yet we’re told that we’re all in this together.”

Services under threat

Mayor Anderson warned councillors that by 2017 if the cuts continue all but essential services will have to go.

He said: “It will leave us with a situation where there’s absolutely no room for manoeuvre in 2017 unless there’s changes in government funding.”

The average across England for spending cuts per household from 2010/11 to 2015/16 was £329, more than half the cut given to Liverpool.

Councillor Jane Corbett condemned the extent of the funding drop in Liverpool and said: “It makes it really clear how we’re getting cut compared to other parts of the country.”

A report to cabinet members said: “The figures are all based on the Government’s own Revenue Spending Power figures.

“However, the true reductions would be even greater, as would the discrepancies between authorities, if the figures included the 10% reduction in Council Tax Support funding in 2013/14, the reduction in Education Services Grant in 2015/16 and if they were not distorted by the inclusion of ringfenced Public Health Grant and Better Care Fund.”

The differences is spending cuts in different areas of England was considered by councillors as part of their discussion about the council’s financial strategy to 2017/18.

It comes on the back of £156m cuts to Liverpool council’s funding from central government between 2014 and 2016/17.

There will be a total of £330m decrease in spending over the six years from 2011 to 2016/17.

The financial strategy will be discussed further at a full council meeting in March.