While currently-married women were still more likely than their male counterparts to report being debt-free, the nature of the question (which refers to debt of either spouse) complicates interpretation.
This will mirror the arrangements that apply to non debt-free authorities.
Taking them up would remove their debt-free status and lead them to incur costs through borrowing.
Incentives to reduce the level of debt include the greater freedom for debt-free authorities to spend their capital receipts.
Some councils are debt-free, but not the vast majority.
The supply of money should be removed from banks and should be assumed by governments, who should issue it on a debt-free basis.
It applies to all authorities except those that are debt-free.
He is of course right, but it was also built with borrowings which, by definition, debt-free authorities have repaid.