Given the very strong resistance in parts of the business community to any kind of penalty in Direct Action – one the reason safeguards were deferred when cabinet was finalising the scheme earlier in the year – there would be opposition.
Burgess added: "We want to ask local people and supporters what they think of it, what there concerns are, and what they like about it so we can take those views into account as we finalise the scheme and designs.
"The financial restructuring scheme finalised in February 2000 is a complex agreement, lasting over 30 years, which was subject to detailed scrutiny over many months by professional advisers before the arrangements were endorsed by the University Council as the best way forward.
"There is no requirement to wait for the autumn statement to begin this process and indeed local authorities in England are already finalising their schemes".
39 Once the coding scheme was finalised, the research coordinator completed the analysis of all data.
A spokeswoman for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) said full details of the new scheme were not finalised, but would be announced soon.
Britain also recently finalised a £50 billion ($90 billion) scheme to deal with the nuclear-waste liabilities of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), an inept re-processor of nuclear waste that is itself bust.But lately, things have brightened for the nuclear industry.
Mark H Durkan, whose department is responsible for local government reform, told the Northern Ireland Assembly that he has "finalised the remuneration and a scheme of allowances for councillors being elected in May".
The full details of this mortgage guarantee scheme have not been finalised yet, most significantly the fees the government will charge.
The £7m announced by Government last week for Devon "enables us to make more progress, and a prioritised programme of road surface repair schemes is now being finalised, and the resources are being found to push on and do the work," Mr Hughes added.
