I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bitter debate/argument
▪ The country now faces a bitter debate over the issue.
a matter for debate/negotiation/discussion (=something to be debated/negotiated etc)
▪ How to solve the housing crisis is a matter for debate.
a subject of/for debate (=a subject people discuss and disagree about)
▪ The reason for the increased risk of cancer is still a subject of debate.
a topic of discussion/debate
▪ The issue is a topic of great debate in the record industry.
discuss/debate an issue
▪ They met to discuss the issue of working conditions at the factory.
discuss/debate the merits of sth (=discuss whether or not something is a good idea)
▪ They were discussing the merits of sending soldiers to the area.
furious debate/argument etc
▪ There was a furious row over the proposals.
hotly debated/disputed/denied etc
▪ The rumor has been hotly denied.
intense debate
▪ Abortion has become the subject of intense debate.
lively debate
▪ a lively debate on environmental issues
long-running dispute/battle/debate/feud etc
▪ She was involved in a long-running legal battle.
long-standing debate/dispute etc
▪ a long-standing feud between the two families
protracted negotiations/discussions/debate etc
▪ the expense of a protracted legal battle
provoke debate/discussion/controversy
▪ A new book criticising Hollywood has provoked fierce debate in the US.
reopen a case/question/debate etc
▪ attempts to reopen the issue of the power station’s future
room for doubt/debate/argument etc
▪ The evidence was clear, and there was little room for doubt.
spirited defence/debate/discussion etc
sterile argument/debate etc
▪ the increasingly sterile debate on political reform
the ensuing battle/conflict/debate etc
▪ In the ensuing fighting, two students were killed.
the focus of debate (=the thing which people are discussing)
▪ The strike became the focus of debate in the media.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
▪ Since the early 1960s, considerable debate has taken place in educational circles about the nature of history as a discipline.
▪ While Eckstrom and Bronson both supported Grijalva for board chairman, there was considerable debate over that position among the three Demos.
▪ There is, however, considerable debate as to the extent of change, and the reasons for it.
▪ This will involve a large number of managers, some further external help, and considerable debate.
▪ It also has been the subject of considerable historical debate.
▪ A flexible engineering system had been introduced after considerable debate about the worthwhileness of the investment.
▪ The salient causal processes in the creation of this deferential coalfield culture are the subject of considerable debate.
▪ There is considerable debate over the most appropriate index of deprivation in particular situations.
current
▪ Here we publish edited answers to some of the questions that are dominating the current political debate.
▪ The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether environmental lead causes intellectual impairment or behavioural disturbances in children.
▪ The current architectural debate has served to polarise popular opinion on modern architecture.
▪ The current education debate also seems to be pushing for a return to traditional teaching methods.
▪ Helfet: X100 stylist Current debate at Browns Lane has turned to the engine's power output.
▪ The current debate in the packaging industry concerns the environmental effects of polyvinyl chloride.
▪ In the current debate about Maastricht that policy is worthy of public and Government interest.
▪ Full scale reform of official secrets legislation is still very much a topic of current debate.
fierce
▪ Agreement was only reached following a fierce debate over the question of radioactive waste.
▪ These questions set off fierce debate among cleaning experts.
▪ This is a matter of fierce debate.
▪ As the deadline approached a fierce debate raged in the United States.
▪ The point is important, because conservation has recently become the subject of fierce debate.
▪ A fierce debate arose among those trying to respond to the unfavourable economic and social effects of occupation.
▪ But it was a long gestation, and a fierce debate still simmers about when and where the birth actually took place.
great
▪ But in this great debate one point is being missed.
▪ Now comes the great Medicaid debate.
▪ So just where does Bernard stand on the great guitar solo debate?
▪ Like David and Goliath, two combatants have stood out from the academic armies engaged in the great demographic debate.
▪ There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these.
▪ The great debates between Webster and Calhoun over slavery or the Gettysburg Address are simply impossible today.
▪ In both Britain and the United States there has been a great deal of debate on the question of police accountability.
▪ The great debate continues raging across the Sunshine State today.
heated
▪ There was heated debate, but by the casting vote of the chairman we got our grant.
▪ There was heated debate regarding the performance of number of ministers.
▪ After fifteen months of heated debate, Billingham was abandoned.
▪ Around such alternatives have views polarised in the heated debate over what the bill means for viewers.
▪ The establishment of these schools outside the local authority system is a matter of heated political debate.
▪ Indeed, this is an area of heated debate and it is quite difficult to tease out what is actually going on.
▪ But even wind power, as heated debates at various public enquiries have revealed, is not without its critics.
▪ This set off another heated debate.
intense
▪ The Thatcher government's policy, effected in the Broadcasting Act of 1990, provoked intense debate.
▪ His approach has incited even more intense debate among Democrats.
▪ These have been the subject of intense debate, with religious preferences sometimes intruding.
▪ How much money Simpson has is a matter of intense speculation and debate.
▪ Yellowstone was threatened in 1883-4 by a plan to allow mining, but the park was saved after an intense debate.
▪ The implications of this change have been the subject of intense debate since 1978.
▪ After weeks of intense inter-party debate, clauses relating to privatization had been omitted.
lively
▪ First, there must be a continuing and lively debate on ethical matters to ensure that ethical guidance is kept up-to-date.
▪ As others may have different theories a genuine desire to prove a point of view leads to some lively debate.
▪ The sections that follow represent an attempt to examine briefly some of the liveliest areas of debate.
▪ The conference produced some lively debate and occasionally some widely differing viewpoints.
▪ Needless to say, there is a continuous and lively debate about whose model is the best.
national
▪ But a national debate on architecture at this level is as banal as it is unhelpful.
▪ Whether or not the proposal is enacted, it may well set off a national debate.
▪ What began as a squabble has polarised into a national debate.
▪ The first state to publicly debate the issue of competition in public education, Minnesota triggered the national debate about choice.
▪ But if this national facility is needed, there should be a national debate about its location.
▪ Republicans, battered as they are in the public opinion polls, succeeded in dramatically transforming the terms of the national debate.
▪ At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination.
▪ The abandonment of separate education, peculiarly enough, has occurred without any visible national debate.
ongoing
▪ Driving the process was the ongoing debate over what might be the very best face Lisa could put forth.
▪ An ongoing debate among those who ponder fashion has been whether dresses, suits and blouses can be considered art.
▪ Those on the other side of this ongoing debate fare little better.
▪ It also provides a way of showing economic research in action by sketching the ongoing debate.
open
▪ This concept is open to debate, in that at least some Ediacaran fossils can be compared with known metazoans.
▪ A resignation would force open the debate and make Dini keep his promise to quit, the Alliance argued.
▪ The actual number of words that are necessary is open to debate.
▪ In other words, they both have valid points, which is often the case in an open and honest debate.
▪ Democracy and open debate were inseparable.
▪ I am perfectly open to that debate.
▪ How that expectation is calculated is certainly open to debate and criticism.
parliamentary
▪ The parliamentary debate on the Report showed the Home Secretary adopting a two-pronged strategy in his response.
▪ The parliamentary debate has been deferred.
▪ They were subject to exhaustive parliamentary debate and, on occasion, referendum.
▪ A parliamentary debate on the issue might be the one thing to tear the coalition apart.
▪ An extraordinary parliamentary debate on July 22, however, endorsed the government's action.
political
▪ The fabric of political debate and mobilization is both narrower and wider.
▪ In past election years, differences over defense spending and foreign policy have been central to the political debate.
▪ Britain's poor economic performance has been the dominant theme of political debate and economic discourse since the 1950s.
▪ Sarah Benton discusses the paralysis of political debate on the Gulf in Britain.
▪ Not so in the United States, where the very definition of human existence is the bread and butter of political debate.
▪ Moreover, the reform process itself is part of the currency of political debate.
▪ Despite some good acting from the ensemble cast, the characters slip into the stereotypes needed to establish the political debate.
presidential
▪ And didn't it, in many ways, shape the whole presidential debate, raising causes that others feared to touch?
▪ The proposed vice presidential debate would be held in Hartford, Conn., on Oct. 2.
▪ The vice presidential debate is scheduled Oct. 2 in Hartford, Conn.
▪ We reached an impasse over the presidential debate in October.
▪ Dole, who is scheduled to speak last, decided to skip a presidential debate Saturday in South Carolina.
▪ It is unclear whether Perot will be allowed to participate in the three scheduled presidential debates, as he did last time.
▪ Funnier than the last presidential debate, but just barely.
▪ The threat was made after Bailey helped lead a demonstration last month at Gammage Auditorium before the Republican presidential primary debate.
public
▪ The agenda for public debate about defence issues is increasingly shaped by the activities of the Pentagon's biggest arms' suppliers.
▪ His eloquence is often out of place in public debates, where precision and clarity are preferred to brilliant imagination.
▪ Yet apart from a few scattered Tory voices, there is no public debate.
▪ He enters freely into public debate from his close attention to most subjects, but he is no Orator.
▪ Doubts over Bush's health, however, provoked renewed public debate over Quayle's competence.
▪ The rule thus dampens the vigor and limits the variety of public debate.
▪ The initial draft received many letters of comment from both camps and was followed up with a public debate in Glasgow.
▪ Ability to use the written and spoken word in order to enter into public debate.
recent
▪ The Opposition refused to answer that in the recent debate, and they have refused to answer it again today.
▪ Both the current reforms and other possible changes which have been suggested in recent debates of the health service will be examined.
▪ Electoral changes and their relationship to the political parties have been the subject of much recent analysis and debate.
▪ This was demonstrated clearly in the recent debates in Parliament.
▪ A recent ageism debate brought out some serious points.
▪ Though essentially traditionalist, the work shows a critical spirit and a lively interest in recent discoveries and debates.
▪ One area of recent debate concerns radon gas and its links to lung cancer.
▪ All these examples are speculative, but all have surfaced in the recent debate on higher education.
■ VERB
conduct
▪ The second part, Chapters 5-8, conducts the three debates catalogued in Figure 1.2.
contribute
▪ It doesn't contribute to any debate.
▪ This is far more intense a challenge than contributing to debates about strategy and design.
▪ To contribute to this debate, Coopers &038; Lybrand formed a working party to survey and examine interim reporting.
▪ Given the still exiguous literature of colour in art we can not expect to contribute to a running debate.
▪ I understand that other hon. Members wish to contribute to the debate before it concludes.
▪ We look forward to contributing to this debate.
▪ We believe that social anthropologists can contribute more to the debates, in both empirical and theoretical terms.
engage
▪ Instead, they say industry should engage in the debate to promote the life-saving benefits from testing treatments on animals.
▪ Very few environmentalists would choose to engage in a debate about the extent to which they had either succeeded or sold out.
heat
▪ He made parliament come alive with unscripted reports of the heated debates during the Suez debacle.
▪ The continuing, and heated, judicial debate on racial preference indicates that the ultimate outcome of this controversy remains in doubt.
▪ The capital gains tax controversy coincides with another heated national debate affecting white people.
▪ Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
▪ The issue was the subject of heated debate in a weekly morning caucus session.
▪ Reginald Tufts, whose fighting ability was frequently the topic of heated debate, hit me until I cried.
▪ Since 1980, a balanced-budget amendment has been the focus of heated debate in congressional committees and on the floor.
▪ No presidential policy is so controversial that it provokes heated debate.
provoke
▪ The Future Development of Auditing deserves to provoke a fundamental debate.
▪ A proposed resolution to oppose voucher plans and charter schools provoked a spirited debate on the convention floor.
▪ The fall of the Berlin Wall provokes a debate between the Professore and a Priest.
▪ No presidential policy is so controversial that it provokes heated debate.
▪ Doubts over Bush's health, however, provoked renewed public debate over Quayle's competence.
▪ This highly readable account deserves a wide audience and should provoke serious debate.
▪ The move provoked a prolonged debate about the pricing of audits.
▪ The Thatcher government's policy, effected in the Broadcasting Act of 1990, provoked intense debate.
reopen
▪ The cautious effort to reopen the debate was sparked by a controversial report from the United Nations Population Division this year.
spark
▪ This idea sparked off a debate that still continues.
▪ The arrival of the census form routinely sparks a bad-tempered debate about intrusiveness and unreasonable authority.
▪ It also sparked debate over the treatment of animals in science.
▪ The report sparked the first nationwide debate over whether low-calorie dieting was now outmoded.
▪ The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today.
▪ The painting sparked a debate that finally led to Gross appearing in court last March.
▪ Attrition rates, for tanks and aircraft increased greatly, sparking off a debate about the implication of the new technologies.
▪ Putnam's article sparked enormous debate and soul-searching.
televise
▪ There have been a total of four nationally televised vice presidential debates since the format premiered in 1976 when Sen.
▪ Dole passed on participating in a televised debate last Friday in Dallas.
▪ It therefore should be stated quite firmly that televised presidential debates are extremely valuable.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heated argument/debate/discussion etc
▪ After a short heated argument, the inspector agreed to pay the costs in cash from his local station funds.
▪ After fifteen months of heated debate, Billingham was abandoned.
▪ It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is.
▪ No presidential policy is so controversial that it provokes heated debate.
▪ Since 1980, a balanced-budget amendment has been the focus of heated debate in congressional committees and on the floor.
▪ There was heated argument at the meeting, with strongly differing views advanced.
▪ There was a heated argument between the two men which at length it fell to Branson to settle.
▪ Witnesses have already given descriptions of the pair who were seen having what appeared to be a heated argument.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The law was passed, after a long and sometimes angry debate.
▪ There will be a televised debate between those in favour of military action and those who are against.
▪ This matter has been the subject of intense public debate in recent weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For his part, Simpson said nothing Tuesday to fuel the debate over the verdicts.
▪ His jibe was greeted with howls of laughter as Mr Smith savaged Mr Major during the emergency debate on the economy.
▪ However, the House will have further opportunities during the debate to clarify that important point.
▪ On some issues he gave details of steps to settle the debate.
▪ The first question on foreign policy came 35 minutes into the debate.
▪ This stark view of what really matters has touched off a spirited debate and will occupy us in Chapter 5.
▪ Which is fine -- we enjoy a good debate in print, sensationalist punks that we are.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
hotly
▪ The effects of television on childhood socialisation have been hotly debated for more than three decades.
▪ Mackowiak says the causes, benefits and dangers of fever in humans are hotly debated among researchers.
▪ The significance of this long-term advantage is still being hotly debated.
▪ Fifty-two percent of California voters approved the hotly debated term-limits initiative in 1990.
▪ Whilst the consequences of these changes may be hotly debated, their marketing impact on business enterprises has been immense.
▪ Whether the abandoned innards, which are consumed by coyotes and ravens, harbor the disease is hotly debated.
▪ The significance of these changes has been hotly debated; these debates will be examined later in the chapter.
▪ A second hotly debated law set up the framework for a state Earthquake Authority.
how
▪ And doctors and governments alike are debating how to curb the excesses of drug promotion.
▪ Officials were still debating how to pay for the program.
▪ Changes in the occupational structure Sociologists from Marx and Weber onwards have debated how best to define social classes.
much
▪ While the evidence for the validity of the hypothesis is much debated, the evidence against it is almost non-existent.
▪ That claim has been challenged and much debated, but it seems to hold up.
▪ Probability is a very difficult notion, much debated by philosophers.
▪ What this was was much debated, particularly by the metropolitan bishops of Arles and Vienne.
over
▪ Several of the professors were internationally known figures who lectured to large audiences and engaged in public debates over controversial issues.
▪ A communications and technology policy initiative to engage the civil rights community in debates over emerging communications and technology policy.
still
▪ But the existence of a causal relationship is still debated.
▪ Officials were still debating how to pay for the program.
▪ The mechanism of action is still debated.
▪ The need for gastroscopic follow up of pernicious anaemia patients is therefore still debated.
▪ The role of endoscopic stenting for postoperative biliary strictures is still debated.
▪ Stalin's man-made famine killed millions; just how many millions is still debated.
▪ So much so, in fact, that they're still debating as they pull into a restaurant in the town.
■ NOUN
bill
▪ I readily acknowledge the need for time to debate the Bill in Committee.
▪ The Senate will debate the bill Monday and vote Tuesday on whether to override the filibuster.
▪ As we debate the Bill, the period of public consultation is only half way through.
▪ This year, the state Legislature spent months debating a bill that would have banned the teaching of evolution as fact.
▪ I am sure that they need the time to debate the Bill just as much as anyone else.
▪ The Louisiana legislature was debating a bill to outlaw virtually all abortions.
▪ I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill.
▪ The issue of political asylum is, of course, being debated in relation to a Bill which is currently going through the House.
committee
▪ I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill.
congress
▪ If the United states Navy had operated Sheffield, Congress would have openly debated the affair and heads would have rolled.
▪ The Congress debated a transitional structure for an interim government before the adoption of a new Constitution.
house
▪ The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments.
▪ The House began debating the measure Thursday, moving it ahead of several spending bills.
▪ Less than four years ago, the House debated the Second Reading of the poll tax bill.
issue
▪ At the very least, it would mean that the real issues are debated rather than the trivial detail of statistics and history.
▪ We were the platform where these issues were debated.
▪ No real political issues ever debated in the mass media?
▪ Hyde said he voted as he did so the issue could be debated in the House.
▪ The whole issue is to be debated as a conference in Luxembourg in September 1992.
▪ None the less, the issue is being debated.
▪ Indeed, many of my hon. Friends find it frustrating that regional issues are seldom debated in the House.
▪ It is the third Cabinet meeting this week at which this issue has been debated.
matter
▪ I hope that we will debate those matters again.
▪ None of them showed any interest, however, in debating the matter with her or with us.
▪ Will he find time to debate the matter?
▪ When the House finally has a chance to debate the matter the Minister of State takes 40 minutes over his speech.
▪ I hope that there will be plenty of opportunity to debate those matters next week.
▪ I will bear her very much in mind when we debate the matter next week.
measure
▪ The House began debating the measure Thursday, moving it ahead of several spending bills.
merits
▪ It is not our intention here to debate the merits of these models, or their relation to the General Theory.
▪ He was mournfully re-enacting the conversation between two officials, as they debated the merits of revoking a pass-interference penalty.
▪ Without debating the relative merits of this policy, the facts exist.
▪ A lot of otherwise productive time is being wasted debating the merits of each game.
▪ This is a crucial element when debating the merits of improvements in the National Health Service or education.
▪ Within weeks after our arrival the managers of each department had begun to debate our relative merits.
motion
▪ To consider and, if thought fit, to pass Special Resolutions and to debate motions.
opportunity
▪ Therefore, the House would have the opportunity of debating any proposed changes to the scheme.
▪ A decision we do not, as employees, usually have an opportunity to debate or contribute to.
▪ I see no opportunity to debate it in Government time.
▪ I hope that there will be plenty of opportunity to debate those matters next week.
▪ I promise the House a full opportunity to debate the report from the Committee.
▪ It can be shown that individuals and groups welcome the opportunity to contribute to debate and to participate in policy making.
▪ I am sure that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland constituencies will welcome the opportunity to debate the orders.
▪ What they did was to provide an opportunity to debate these issues, at the same time giving support to teachers.
parliament
▪ It is a matter which Parliament has yet to debate.
▪ It is men who sit in parliament, debating the laws which control a woman's destiny.
▪ Such an Order had to be laid before Parliament and was there debated on 6 December 1977.
▪ Yes: Parliament would debate inclusion of the Social Chapter later.
policy
▪ Personal insults and accusations swamped efforts to debate policies.
▪ But the courtroom is not the arena for debating issues of educational policy.
▪ Neither the new regional conferences nor the revived Labour League of Youth were allowed to debate national policy.
▪ Today the conference will debate the policy review reports Physical and Social Environment, including housing and transport.
politician
▪ Just possibly, the politicians might begin debating that as they campaign for November's mayoral election.
proposal
▪ Under their pressure Congress raised the limit to 115,000, and is debating a proposal to issue 200,000 H1B visas next year.
▪ I welcome the possibility of debating the proposals of the Opposition parties.
question
▪ This looks even more unconstitutional - but while the lawyers debate that question, the government could be holding the monetary line.
▪ We have recently debated environmental questions generally.
▪ These were the most hotly debated questions.
▪ But the Second International did debate two questions which Marx and Engels left unresolved.
▪ Thankfully, we can debate these questions in a time of peace, when the consequences of making a mistake are minimal.
▪ There will be time to debate these questions later.
▪ Participants debated sensitive questions about biology, race and science.
report
▪ Mr. Cryer Will the Lord President explain the priorities that he adopts in providing time for debating the reports?
▪ I promise the House a full opportunity to debate the report from the Committee.
subject
▪ This is the first time that we have debated the subject in the House, which is a pity.
▪ As we have seen, this second chance to debate the subject of dissension within the community was also rejected.
time
▪ Thus they spent much of their time debating the validity of various evaluation procedures as potential responses.
▪ A lot of otherwise productive time is being wasted debating the merits of each game.
▪ I readily acknowledge the need for time to debate the Bill in Committee.
▪ Will he find time to debate the matter?
▪ It is a waste of time to debate issues which are already settled.
▪ I am sure that they need the time to debate the Bill just as much as anyone else.
▪ Mr. Cryer Will the Lord President explain the priorities that he adopts in providing time for debating the reports?
▪ The practical results will be felt by hundreds of millions who do not spend their time debating the theory of globalisation.
week
▪ That is why we shall introduce the Asylum Bill, which will be debated next week.
▪ Similar legislation is pending in the House, which plans to begin floor debate the week of March 18.
▪ What I have just related will look rather familiar to those who examine the Bill that we will debate next week.
▪ He will return to Florida for more debate prep later this week.
▪ The House will be invited to debate the outcome next week.
▪ I hope that there will be plenty of opportunity to debate those matters next week.
▪ I will bear her very much in mind when we debate the matter next week.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Similar legislation is pending in the House, which plans to begin floor debate the week of March 18.
▪ Just possibly, the politicians might begin debating that as they campaign for November's mayoral election.
▪ In response, regulators began to debate whether derivatives should be banned or reined in.
▪ The Senate began debating its version of the immigration bill on Monday.
▪ The House began debating the measure Thursday, moving it ahead of several spending bills.
▪ Within weeks after our arrival the managers of each department had begun to debate our relative merits.
continue
▪ They can continue to debate them all night, and even until the following morning, if they so desire.
▪ Aviation historians continue to debate what happened to her.
▪ Surely that question will continue to be debated for as long as there are children in schools and teachers there to teach them.
▪ Her exact literary status continues to be debated in academia.
▪ Legislators, medical ethicists and public health experts continue to debate limiting the use of such reproductive technologies.
open
▪ This theory is, however, open to debate.
spend
▪ We have spent three days debating the council tax.
▪ This year, the state Legislature spent months debating a bill that would have banned the teaching of evolution as fact.
▪ I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill.
▪ The practical results will be felt by hundreds of millions who do not spend their time debating the theory of globalisation.
▪ Question: What do you get if you travel half way around the world and spend seven 19-hour days debating Amnesty's future?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Few areas of nutrition are more hotly debated than whether or not people should take vitamin supplements.
▪ The government clearly refuses to give us an opportunity to debate any longer.
▪ The matter will be debated by the General Assembly.
▪ The new law was debated in Parliament on 14 February.
▪ They had already debated where to go on vacation, Yosemite or Lake Tahoe.
▪ We debated whether to fly or go by train, finally deciding on the train.
▪ We were debating the best way to reach the river, when a passing ranger kindly pointed it out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But later the deputies set the stage for possible compromise by agreeing to debate a referendum after all.
▪ He was mournfully re-enacting the conversation between two officials, as they debated the merits of revoking a pass-interference penalty.
▪ The Bundesbank central council will meet Thursday to debate interest-rate and monetary policy.
▪ They were no longer debating the rights of man at a Club for Equality and Reform.
▪ We have spent three days debating the council tax.
▪ Whilst the consequences of these changes may be hotly debated, their marketing impact on business enterprises has been immense.