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| Select Committee on the Barnett Formula - First Report
The Barnett Formula Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 9 July 2009. |
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Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 1: Background to the Inquiry
Chapter 2: UK Public Spending and The Barnett Formula
Table 2: The importance of social security spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 2006-07 Table 3: Index of per capita public expenditure, including and excluding social security
Chapter 3: The Development of Formula from 1978-1997
Application of the Formula in practice up to 1997
Chapter 4: The Formula since 1997
Handling disagreements about finance
Chapter 5: Is reform necessary? Figure 1: Actual and projected populations 1971 to 2031 The administration of the present system Inadequate and inaccessible data
Chapter 6: Alternative approaches
Comparative lessons from overseas
Chapter 7: The principles of a new approach Achieving substantive fairness
Selection of measures of specific aspects of need Figure 2: Measures contributing to relative need: Figure 3: An extended selection of measures contributing to relative need Combining the specific measures into a single overall measure Annual increments and transition Status of the new arrangements
APPENDIX 1: Select Committee on the Barnett Formula
APPENDIX 5: Data definitions, values and
sources used in the 'needs diagrams' Oral Evidence
Oral evidence, 28 January 2009 Professor Iain McLean, University of Oxford & ippr North Oral evidence, 4 February 2009 Supplementary written evidence Scottish Government (Mr John Swinney MSP) Written evidence Oral evidence, 27 February 2009 Professor David Bell, Professor of Economics, University of Stirling; Professor David King, Professor of Public Economics, University of Stirling; and Professor Kim Swales, Head of Economics Department, University of Strathclyde Written evidence, Professor David King Oral evidence, 27 February 2009 Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) Oral evidence, 27 February 2009 Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations Oral evidence, 27 February 2009 Supplementary written evidence Ms Helen Bailey, Public Services and Growth Directorate, the Treasury; Ms Helene Radcliffe, Devolved Countries Unit, the Treasury; Mr Mark Parkinson, Devolved Countries Unit, the Treasury; and Mr Jim Gallagher, Ministry of Justice/Cabinet Office Written evidence, the Treasury Supplementary written evidence, the Treasury Oral evidence, 11 March 2009 Further supplementary written evidence, the Treasury Rt Hon Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market and Sir Brian Unwin Oral evidence, 18 March 2009 Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym, Plaid Cymru; Professor James Foreman-Peck, Cardiff Business School; and Dr Gillian Bristow, Cardiff School of City & Regional Planning Written evidence, Plaid Cymru Written evidence, Professor James Foreman-Peck Written evidence, Dr Gillian Bristow Oral evidence, 20 March 2009 Mr Paul Griffiths, Welsh Local Government Association; Mr Ian Carruthers and Ms Maria Jones, Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy, Wales Written evidence, Welsh Local Government Association Written evidence, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Oral evidence, 20 March 2009 Supplementary written evidence, Welsh Local Government Association Mr Phil Jarrold, Wales Council for Voluntary Action; Mr Peter Price and Mr Cynog Dafis, Tomorrow's Wales; Mr John Osmond and Mr Geraint Talfan-Davies, Institute for Welsh Affairs Written evidence, Wales Council for Voluntary Action Written evidence, Cymru Yfory (Tomorrow's Wales) Oral evidence, 20 March 2009 Mr Leo O'Reilly, Mr Richard Pengelly and Mr Mike Brennan, Department of Finance & Personnel (Northern Ireland) Written Evidence, Northern Ireland Civil Service Oral evidence, 27 March 2009 Mr Michael Smyth and Professor Colin Thain, University of Ulster; and Professor John Simpson, Queen's University, Belfast Written evidence, Professor Colin Thain Written evidence, Professor John Simpson Oral evidence, 27 March 2009 Mr Patrick McCartan, Northern Ireland Confederation for Health and Social Services; and Mr Victor Hewitt, Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Written evidence, Northern Ireland Confederation for Health and Social Services Written evidence, Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Oral evidence, 27 March 2009 Mr Peter Bunting, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Northern Ireland Committee; Mr John Corey, Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance; and Mr Seamus McAleavey, Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action Oral evidence, 27 March 2009 Rt. Hon Mr Jim Murphy, MP (Secretary of State for Scotland), Rt. Hon Mr Paul Murphy, MP (Secretary of State for Wales), and Rt. Hon Mr Shaun Woodward (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) Oral evidence, 1 April 2009 Mr David Fillingham, Royal Bolton Hospital; Ms Rhona McDonald, Bath & North East Primary Care Trust; Mr Keith Derbyshire and Dr Stephen Lorrimer, Department of Health Written evidence, Department of Health Oral evidence, 29 April 2009 Mr Liam Byrne MP, Mr Mark Parkinson and Ms Helen Radcliffe, the Treasury Oral evidence, 17 June 2009 Written Evidence
Australian Commonwealth Grants Commission Madoc Batcup cebr ltd City of London COSLA David Hume Institute East of England Development Agency and East of England Regional Assembly Federal Trust for Education & Research Professor David Heald Independent Expert Group to the Commission on Scottish Devolution Local Government Association London Councils Mr. Russell Mellett Parliament for Wales Campaign Reform Scotland Sustrans Cymru Society of County Treasurers TaxPayer's Alliance
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