'Aussie Rules' May Offer Answer to Funding Dilemma ; English Conservative Mp Says System Is Much Fairer

Western Mail › January 19, 2011

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NEW calls to scrap the funding formula used to send Treasury cash to Wales were led yesterday by an English Conservative MP - who believes Australia offers a bold way forward.

Andrew Selous, who represents South West Bedfordshire, is convinced the Barnett formula is unfair and should be replaced by a system based on need.

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'Aussie Rules' May Offer Answer to Funding Dilemma ; English Conservative Mp Says System Is Much Fairer

In a Westminster Hall debate he organised yesterday he held up Australia's Commonwealth Grants Commission as an independent and transparent model of how funds could...

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