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# No plans to review Barnett formula
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/no-plans-to-review-barnett-formula/
- Published: 2008-03-05T11:03:54.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:39:40.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

**Jon Bright (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** Brown's slow suffocation of Wendy Alexander's constitutional commission - which is now a mere working party - continued today, with the [news](http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.2094243.0.no%5F10%5Fdenies%5Fscotland%5Fspending%5Freview.php?ref=opendemocracy.net) that there are no plans to review the Barnett formula, "now or in the forseeable future." Only a couple of weeks ago, Brown was [speculating](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/02/17/browns-thoughts-on-the-scottish-constitutional-commission/?ref=opendemocracy.net) on whether revenue raising powers should go to Holyrood - which would have meant some kind of review of Barnett. The question not must surely be - what kind of proposals is Alexaner's working party going to come back with? And will they manage the difficult task of pleasing both Number 10 and Scotland?