division_name: Local Government Finance Bill &#8212; Schedule 1 &#8212; Local retention of non-domestic rates
motion: <p pid="a.844.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Question accordingly negatived.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.844.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Amendment proposed</i>: 39,&#160;page&#160;15,&#160;line&#160;17, leave out from &#8216;must&#8217; to end of line 19 and insert</p>
  
  <p pid="a.844.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8216;prepare and publish an assessment of the level of need in each local authority, as defined in paragraph 4(c) above. The Secretary of State must&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.844.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">(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</p>
  
  <p pid="a.844.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(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.&#8217;.&#8212;<i>(Helen </i> <i>Jones</i> <i>.)</i></p>
  
  <p pid="a.844.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put, </i>That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.844.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">The Committee divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.844.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 228, Noes 318.</p>