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  Local Government Finance Bill - New Clause 11 - Central Government Funding of Full Costs of Council Tax Reduction Schemes
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require central government to reimburse local councils for the full costs of their council tax reduction schemes for people in financial need.
  @ MP voted no against requiring central government reimbursing local councils for the full costs of their council tax reduction schemes for people in financial need. 
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring central government reimbursing local councils for the full costs of their council tax reduction schemes for people in financial need. 
  
  The text of the new clause proposed for the Local Government Finance Bill[1] which was rejected in this vote was:
  
  :The Secretary of State shall be required to pay an additional grant to a local authority if, at the end of any financial year, the total expenditure incurred by the authority under any scheme approved pursuant to Schedule 4 of this Act is greater than the amount of grant received from the Secretary of State to fund the scheme. The amount paid to the authority shall be the difference between the sum originally received and the total cost to the authority of the scheme.â.
  
  
  Schedule 4[2] of the Local Government Finance Bill contained a series of amendments to the law relating to the introduction of council tax reduction schemes. 
  
  Other provisions in the Bill replaced the council tax benefit with schemes for local councils to reduce council tax (including reducing it to nil) for those in financial need. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/localgovernmentfinance/documents.html Parliament's webpage on the Local Government Finance Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0265/cbill_2010-20120265_en_6.htm#sch4 Schedule 4 of the Local Government Finance Bill]
  
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