It was carried by 23 votes to 12 and amounts to a real-terms increase of 1.3%.
Members were also presented with an alternative, ‘Option A’, by P&R, which would have allowed the States to stick to a previously-agreed 1% reduction in spending.
Forward Guernsey, the island’s only political party, had also put a third option on the table, but having seen that move rejected earlier this week, its four members all abstained from the vote on ‘B’.
More to follow.
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