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  Local Government Finance (England) 2018â19 - Level of Revenue Support Grant
  
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  @ MP voted aye to set the main central government grant to local government for 2018-19 at a level 28% lower than it was set for 2017-18. 
  @ MP voted no against setting the main central government grant to local government for 2018-19 at a level 28% lower than it was set for 2017-18. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to set the main central government grant to local government for 2018-19 at a level 28% lower than it was set for 2017-18. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to set the "Revenue Support Grant" for local government for the financial year 2018/2019 at Â£3,573,308,349 (The figure for 2017/2018 was Â£4,981,793,727[1])
  
  There is a plan for local government to retain all business rates income raised locally by 2020, with redistributions between authorities, as central government grants are phased out.[2]
  
  The motion approved by the majority of MPs, and the majority representing English constituencies was:
  
  :That the [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679332/2018-19_LGFR.pdf Report on Local Government Finance (England) 2018â19 (HC 791), which was laid before this House on 5 February, be approved].
  
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  * [1] [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2017-02-22&number=166 Local Government Finance Report 2017-18 - Level of Revenue Support Grant â 10 Feb 2016] - PublicWhip
  * [2] [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2017-02-20.HCWS482.h Local Government Finance written ministerial statement, Sajid Javid MP (Bromsgrove, Conservative)]
  
  
  
  
  
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