Sir – Councillor Mrs Fooks (Letters, September 3) asks why the county council Conservative administration did not factor in the full impact of the appalling state of the national finances in its budget for 2009/10.
Perhaps for the same reason that the Liberal Group did not, Mrs Fooks?
Keith Mitchell, Leader, Oxfordshire County Council, County Hall, Oxford
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