The Local Government Finance Bill gives local authorities the power to keep some of the money they raise from business rates in their area.
In particular, the Treasury has yet to concede the principle that road charges can be used by local authorities to finance local spending.
But Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said the plans would make England's local government finance system more effective at supporting "local jobs, local firms and local enterprises".
The finance secretary was calling on MSPs to approve the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2012 during the debate on 9 February 2012.
As MPs debated the Local Government Finance Bill at report stage on 21 May 2012, shadow local government minister Helen Jones said the government was being "wilfully blind" to the potential problems caused by the bill's changes to the way business rates are distributed, claiming the reforms could increase the north-south divide.
As MPs debated the Local Government Finance Bill at report stage on 21 May 2012, Mr Stunell also explained that local authorities will be allowed to replace council tax benefit with their own schemes.
MPs were giving the Local Government Finance Bill a second reading on 11 January 2012.
She said discussions with Cosla on a range of local government finance matters were continuing.
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The most common tactic was to set up enterprises, now known as LGFVs local government finance vehicles.
Despite the strict prohibition, their debt has skyrocketed as local officials incurred obligations through LGFVs, local government finance vehicles.
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Mr Swinney was announcing the local government finance settlement on 8 December 2011.
And then it's on to the day's main event, a motion on the annual Police Grant and Local Government Finance reports.
The committee also received briefings on the Local Government Finance Bill, the Cam Road landfill site, and the Better Regulation Strategy.
Scottish Labour has, frankly, vacillated over a prolonged period with regard to the overall method and structure of local government finance.
Liberal Democrat Mike Hancock also agreed, telling MPs that the changes to local government finance were being "bulldozed" through the House.
The opposition put forward an amendment to that effect during report stage of the Local Government Finance Bill on 16 October 2012.
The change is included in the Local Government Finance Bill, which received its third reading in the House of Lords on Monday.
Mr Brown was leading a debate on the Scottish government proposals outlined in the Local Government Finance (Unoccupied Properties etc.) (Scotland) Bill .
An 11-week consultation is under way, to be followed by the Local Government Finance bill, which is expected to be published in the autumn.
Camden Council is making its plans with a view to using the Local Government Finance Bill, which will give councils discretion to increase council tax on long-term empty dwellings.
After that, there's a chance for MPs, under the aegis of the Backbench Business Committee, to complain about the effect of the latest Local Government Finance settlement on rural councils.
John Swinney (Leader of the SNP, North Tayside) led with a question to Jack McConnell about whether the First Minister had already dismissed the idea of a local income tax ahead of his local government finance review.
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Speaking on 31 January 2012, during the third day of the Local Government Finance Bill's committee stage in the Commons, Mr Raynsford branded the changes a "travesty of localism", claiming local authorities would be left to face the consequences of a lot of "very angry and very unhappy residents".
Providing more money for essential infrastructure and reforming local-government finance may ease some constraints but is unlikely to be enough to overcome local opposition everywhere.
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This was made clear when she embarked on a fundamental reform of local-government finance.
It has a large local corporate-finance business and a presence in both New York and London.
Overall, ministers judge that the political benefits from reforming local-government finance are low and the costs are high.
It would make a lot more sense to allow local voters to finance more school spending (or other spending) with a simple majority vote.
That would include reviving regional stock exchanges to finance local businesses.
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