Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 10:38 pm on 12 November 1991.
Resolved,That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Local Government Finance Bill ("the Act"), it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
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