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Paul Waugh | Looks like 136 Conservatives voted against 3rd reading of Same Sex marriage bill...
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Looks like 136 Conservatives voted against 3rd reading of Same Sex marriage bill, 123 in favour.
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Paul Waugh | Same Sex Marriage Bill passes its Commons stages. Ayes 366 Noes 161. Historic da...
19:15Paul Waugh
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Same Sex Marriage Bill passes its Commons stages. Ayes 366 Noes 161. Historic day. Applause in the Chamber.
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Very happy and proud to vote for 3rd reading of same sex marriage bill #equalmar...
19:11Liz Kendall
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Very happy and proud to vote for 3rd reading of same sex marriage bill #equalmarriage
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PM having a chat w Nigel Evans and @nickherbertmp as the votes on #equalmarriage...
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PM having a chat w Nigel Evans and @nickherbertmp as the votes on #equalmarriage are totted up
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The Heresiarch | The Problem with Humanist Weddings
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This afternoon, an amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) bill was debated which would have allowed humanist celebrants to officiate at wedding ceremonies in England and Wales, as they already d...
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Response to IFS council tax reform report
6 June 2012
Responding to the Institute for Fiscal Studies report into reforming council tax benefit, Sir Merrick Cockell, LGA chairman, said:
"Councils are extremely worried about how they're going to protect deserving and vulnerable people from the £500 million cut to council tax benefit next year. The cut goes way beyond the money that can be retrieved by cancelling discounts on second homes and empty properties and councils are being put in an impossible position. They can either cease helping the working poor, or continue to support them by taking money from other services or putting up council tax.
"It is telling that the government's default scheme, which is what councils will have to apply if they do not cut benefits themselves, does not deliver the £500 million cut councils are being asked to implement. If the government wants to localise council tax benefit it needs to go all the way and give local authorities the freedom to make savings in a way which will protect the people who most need help."
The IFS report on reforming council tax benefit is available here (http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/6183)
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