Scotland’s Fiscal Framework Debate

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Scotland’s Fiscal Framework

Baroness Stowell of Beeston Excerpts
Wednesday 24th February 2016

(8 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Stowell of Beeston Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con)
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My Lords, it is the turn of the Cross-Benches, and then I suggest that we go to my noble friend Lady Goldie.

Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve Portrait Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve (CB)
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My Lords, is the implication of this agreement that the Barnett formula is, as it were, the acquis communautaire which provides the baseline against which fairness is judged?