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  Local Government Finance Bill - Schedule 2 - Consider Needs of Local Authority When Determining Revenue Support Grant
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require the Secretary of State to satisfy himself the resources available to a local authority are sufficient to meet the needs of the local authority when considering if to make a revenue support grant payment to the authority.
  
  @ MP voted no against requiring the Secretary of State to satisfy himself the resources available to a local authority are sufficient to meet the needs of the local authority when considering if to make a revenue support grant payment to the authority.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring the Secretary of State to satisfy himself the resources available to a local authority are sufficient to meet the needs of the local authority when considering if to make a revenue support grant payment to the authority.
  
  MPs were considering the Local Government Finance Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 65, page 36, line 42, at end insertâ
  
  :â(2A) In determining whether or not to pay a grant to any authority named above the Secretary of State must satisfy him or herselfâ
  
  :(a) that the resources available to any local authority (including payments made under Schedule 1 of this Act) are sufficient to meet the needs of the local authority, and
  
  :(b) that there has been no significant change in the circumstances of the local authority resulting in a substantial increase in demand for the authorityâs services or for reductions in council tax.â.
  
  If it had not been rejected this amendment would have added the above text to Schedule 2 (2)[2] of the Bill on the payment of a revenue support grant. 
  
  
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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.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0265/cbill_2010-20120265_en_5.htm#sch2 Schedule 2 to the Local Government Finance Bill as at the time of the vote]
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