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Decision Time
5:00 pm
Sir David Steel (None)
The result of the division is: For 62, Against 21, Abstentions 29.
Motion, as amended, agreed to.
Resolved, That the Parliament welcomes the substantial reforms that the Executive has brought to the operation of local government finance by the delivery of three-year budget figures for grant, by the removal of expenditure guidelines and by increasing the funding of councils; further welcomes the indications from the Executive that it will pursue further reforms in the future, and notes that the Local Government Committee of the Parliament is to conduct an investigation into the financing of local government.