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...My nightly submissions to Joel Barnett, chief secretary to the Treasury and the person responsible for controlling public expenditure, were copied to the chancellor, his boss and mine, who led the government...
...Joel Barnett, the then Labour chief secretary to the Treasury, wanted to find ways to avoid painful negotiations with the secretaries of state for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales (who, in those pre-devolution...
...The financial arrangements between Scotland and the UK as a whole are not determined by either needs nor resources but by historic accident, based on a formula named for Joel Barnett, a Treasury minister...
...Joel Barnett, who has died aged 91, was at the centre of the economic storms that rocked the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan....
...By 1974, when Joel Barnett became chief secretary to the Treasury, spending per head in Scotland was 20 per cent higher than in England. Is Joel Barnett the Barnett of the Barnett formula?...
...The formula was devised by Lord (Joel) Barnett, Labour Treasury chief secretary, in the late 1970s....
...disputes by Lord Joel Barnett, a Labour Treasury chief secretary....
...The brainchild of Joel (now Lord) Barnett when he was Labour treasury secretary in the late 1970s, it allocates public spending each year in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, according to their share...
...Politicians on the make see little percentage in being the Chancellor’s hatchet-man and get out fast: Mr Alexander has now outlasted his 21 most recent predecessors, dating back to Joel Barnett in the 1970s...
...Elizabeth Murray, Joel Shapiro, they’re all our generation too. We all lived within a few blocks of each other and we all helped each other....
...Slow planner At dinner afterwards, Joel Barnett, chief secretary to the Treasury when Lord Healey was chancellor, and former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson sat at the same table....
...“The first months of the new government were characterised by our spending money which, in the event, we did not have,” Joel Barnett, the then chief secretary to the Treasury, later recorded – something...
...Succinct tips from Robert Barnett, adviser to US Democrats 1....
...The government, which will be under severe pressure from the SNP at the next general election, is in no rush to abandon the formula, which was formulated by Joel (now Lord) Barnett when he was chief secretary...
...The Barnett formula, which governs the allocation of block grant from the UK exchequer to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is under its most sustained attack since Joel Barnett, former Treasury chief...
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