Sir – The Government’s cuts will hurt, but Oxfordshire is not being ask to bear too much, though it seems eager to do so.

Can the county council reassure us that these cuts are not done in order to diminish local government and, when better times come, services will be returned to us.

But, when they are replaced, who will bear the cost of getting services — like local libraries — restarted. Will it be us again? And what will that cost us?

Deborah Manley, Oxford