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  Local Government Finance Bill - Schedule 1 - Process for National vs Local Allocation of Business Rates
  
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  @ MP voted no against a more transparent process based on a published assessment of need for determining the national verses local share of business rates.   
  @ MP voted aye for a more transparent process based on a published assessment of need for determining the national verses local share of business rates. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted against a more transparent process based on a published assessment of need for determining the national verses local share of business rates.      
  
  MPs were considering the Local Government Finance Bill[1]
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 39, page 15, line 17, leave out from âmustâ to end of line 19 and insert
  
  :âprepare and publish an assessment of the level of need in each local authority, as defined in paragraph 4(c) above. The Secretary of State mustâ
  
  :(a) lay the report containing the assessment before the House at least 14 sitting days in advance of the publication of the Local Government Finance Report, and
  
  :(b) notify such representatives of local government as the Secretary of State thinks fit of the publication of the report on need and the detail of the basis of calculation in the Local Government Finance Report.â.
  
  The paragraph this would have impacted is 10(2) within Schedule 1 which initially stated:
  
  : (2) Before making the local government finance report for a year, the
  Secretary of State must notify such representatives of local
  government as the Secretary of State thinks fit of the general
  nature of the basis of calculation. 
  
  
  During debate Helen Jones MP (Warrington North, Labour) stated[2]:
  
  :We believe that it is vital that the Secretary of State not only makes an assessment of need before setting the central and local shares for each authority, but publishes that assessment and lays it before the House. That would bring transparency and openness to the system. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/localgovernmentfinance.html Parliament's webpage on the Local Government Finance Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2012-01-18a.801.3#g822.1 Helen Jones MP, (Warrington North, Labour), House of Commons, 18 January 2012]
  
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