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Financing Devolution in Practice: The Barnett Formula and the Scottish Budget, 1999-2003

Midwinter, Arthur - In: Public Money & Management 24 (2004) 3, pp. 137-144

<title/> This article examines the impact of the Barnett formula on the Scottish public finances since devolution. Forecasts of a spending squeeze and budgetary constraint have not materialized and Scotland's share of the UK budget has remained stable. The real budgetary problem for the Scottish...

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Financing Devolution in Practice: The Barnett Formula and the Scottish Budget, 1999-2003

Midwinter, Arthur - In: Public money & management : the journal of the Public … 24 (2004) 3, pp. 137-144

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THEME: LOCAL GOVERNMENT - THE NEW POLITICS OF LOCAL SPENDING: CENTRAL-LOCAL FINANCIAL RELATIONS UNDER SCOTTISH DEVOLUTION - Arthur Midwinter focuses on the Scottish Executive's strategy and practice over local authority current expenditure since devolution. Scottish councils have delivered reasonable increases in council tax levels since devolution. This approach is consistent with the statutory ...

Gray, Andrew; Midwinter, Arthur - In: Public money & management : the journal of the Public … 22 (2002) 2, pp. 37-46

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DEVELOPMENTS - THE NEW ACCOUNTABILITY? DEVOLUTION AND EXPENDITURE POLITICS IN SCOTLAND - Supporters of devolution present it as offering a more consensual, transparent and inclusive form of governance -- A 'new politics' -- With less executive dominance than at Westminster. Arthur Midwinter and Neil McGarvey discuss expenditure politics in the budget and audit processes in the Scottish Parliament.

Midwinter, Arthur; McGarvey, Neil - In: Public money & management : the journal of the Public … 21 (2001) 3, pp. 47-56

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DEVELOPMENTS - THE POLITICS OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT: THE TREASURY SELECT COMMITTEE AND THE BARNETT FORMULA - Arthur Midwinter explains the continuing debate over Scottish public expenditure: Some English MPs, for example, have described the Scottish Office budget as a 'slush fund', and argued that Scots have been 'force-fed' with public expenditure. Although the article focuses on developments in ...

Midwinter, Arthur - In: Public money & management : the journal of the Public … 19 (1999) 2, pp. 51-54

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The devolution proposals for Scotland: An assessment and critique

Midwinter, Arthur; McVicar, Murray - In: Public money & management : the journal of the Public … 16 (1996) 4, pp. 13-20

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Editorial: The devolution of power in the United Kingdom

Midwinter, Arthur - In: Public money & management : the journal of the Public … 16 (1996) 4, pp. 3

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DEVELOPMENTS: UNCHARTED WATERS? PROBLEMS OF FINANCING LABOUR'S SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

Midwinter, Arthur; McVicar, Murray - In: Public money & management : the journal of the Public … 16 (1996) 2, pp. 47-52

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Town hall dreams and devolution - Local government in Scotland has been waiting decades to get rid of the yoke of central financial control. But how much more funding decentralisation can there realistically be in a newly devolved state?

Midwinter, Arthur - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2001), pp. 18-21

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Town hall dreams and devolution

Midwinter, Arthur - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2001), pp. 18-21

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005893506