Devolution and the Union

Part of Backbench Business – in the House of Commons at 2:15 pm on 20 November 2014.

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Photo of Alan Reid Alan Reid Liberal Democrat, Argyll and Bute 2:15, 20 November 2014

The coalition agreement has been adhered to. At my party’s conference in October—it is usually in September, but the SNP chose a date that falls during our conference for the referendum—we passed a motion that the Barnett formula would be continued. The hon.

Gentleman is correct that we had a different policy in the past, but we have a democratic policy-making process in our party, and the party, through its democratic policy-making processes at our annual conference, has voted that the Barnett formula should continue.