Will the hon. Gentleman make sure that Ambassadors and Ministers will be allowed some elasticity in future, if Any Local Financial Crisis arises, to help their subordinates before a decision has been reached by the Treasury?

In spite of the Local Financial Crisis, the Socialist council intended to spend £35,000 of ratepayers' money on a so-called tenants' ballot.

The Park is a national as well as a local service, yet it is suffering the severe side-effects of the Local Financial Crisis that affects Oxfordshire's health services across the board.