The cabinet meeting also approved legislation to enable a referendum on any agreement reached in negotiations.
Palm Beach officials are pushing for legislation that would enable a referendum in September on a sales tax to help finance the project, which would be completed in time for spring training in 2003.
Her Majesty promised a "national identity cards scheme", that would later be dropped, and amusing to recall, said that "A draft bill will be published to enable a referendum to be held on the adoption of the single currency subject to the government's five economic tests being met".
Bills to enable a referendum on independence and to introduce a local income tax, were axed when it became clear that they had insufficient parliamentary support.
"We back the enabling of a referendum on the devolution of income tax and look forward to working with other parties to set out a clear roadmap to giving the people of Wales their say".
Many voted in last month's referendum that endorsed a new constitution; more should be drawn into next month's election, enabling a more representative government to emerge.
The public are, rightly, demanding change and the Liberal Democrats have led the way in calling for a series of measures – reform of the House of Lords and party funding, fixed term parliaments, enabling legislation for a referendum on electoral reform, to name but three – in a bid to restore faith in our political system.
Mr. Gulotta said he had signed a local law enabling the referendum to reach voters on Election Day and planned to vote for the initiative.
Responding to the vote in the Lords, Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice minister, said: "By enabling the referendum to avoid clashes with other elections, it is an important victory for those of us who want a yes vote and wish to campaign across party boundaries to secure that outcome".
And no nod to those Tory Eurosceptics who wanted more than a prime ministerial promise on an EU referendum by 2017, with no new law to enable a national vote.
