Local Authority Capping

EDM number 73 in 1997-98, proposed by David Heath on 05/06/1997.

That this House believes that local decision-making should be less constrained by central Government and also more accountable to local people; therefore considers it unacceptable to continue the practice of capping local authority expenditure so as to deny local discretion and reduce levels of essential local services such as education and social services; and considers that such practice is particularly inappropriate in the absence of either excessive expenditure or democratic expression of local concern.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.