In 2011-12, Hull had one of the highest Government funding per head of population figures in the country...
http://webarchive.nationalarchives....ies.gov.uk/documents/newsroom/pdf/1904897.pdf
Those who wasting the most, have been made to cut back the most, as you'd expect.
That misses out far too much of the funding that comes to areas via other streams. To claim those who wasted the most, cut back the most is simply wrong.